Not good news - Solarfilm

I have never used Solarfilm product , but if you google it there are still suppliers out there , non the less i like you hate to see long time model supply businesses go ..

No way to not be morbid about it;

But in next ten years we are certain to loose more and more of our-- very good right now-- resources

Hobbyco in Chapter 11 may survive but I think the writing is on the wall if they can not sell the company... employee owned... and those people are gonna get hosed as their company stock nears worthless stage

This had serious impact for a lot of the suppliers they exclusively sell

Super Tiger never did resurrect

Have not heard what John Brodak's Plan for when he can no longer run the business

Walt Umland
Eric Rule
Tom Morris
Phil Cartier
Doug Galbreath
Tom Dixon
Randy Smith
and probably another dozen, are all aging and simply can not continue their cottage industry beyond the next decade

Last year or so SigMfg has had more and more back ordering

My Hobby Lobby locally looks good for a while but the NOT so good, Hobby Town we used to have only survived about 5 years in the mall.... in a 100,000 plus population area

Radio shack was my go to for DYI HAM radio and other electronic bit n pieces for decades...

I went over seas and on return they had morphed into a basic cell phone and cheap toy store with ever dwindling supply of all the things I wanted