24-9-2026: The store will be closed until the 10th October.

Retroleum - The Retro Spares Shop

4/10/2026 -  I hope to re-open the store on  the 10th October. After suffering declining health for a few months, my mother passed away at the end of September. To make matters worse, I also caught quite a nasty bout of flu from the hospital so need some time to recover and get things going again.   (I don't have a social media page myself and I'm not sure if this the most appropriate place to mention it but the family have a fundraiser in mom's name for a small cat charity in Birmingham called Furbabies - she loved cats and always said she'd prefer something like this than money being spent on flowers etc. The link is:  https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/jeanruston ) Thanks, Phil.

Retroleum sells various new, old stock and salvaged components mainly for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 (but also a few items for other 8 bit machines like the VIC20, C16, Plus4, ZX81 etc). 

Delivery charges are kept as low as possible - the actual postage cost of each order is calculated automatically, taking into account the size and weight. Reminder: I now only post to addresses in the UK. Orders with overseas addresses will be cancelled and refunded (less the Paypal transaction fee  as Paypal keeps this part of every payment regardless). Orders are posted on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (orders can be placed any time, but I need a few days away from processing orders due to personal committments and to build up stock etc).

To help with repairs I have some general fault-finding information here.


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C64 Spares
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ZX Spectrum Spares
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