Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!bbn.com!archive.bbn.com!aboulang From: aboulang@bbn.com (Albert Boulanger) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Name your favorite Surplus Mail-Order Houses! Message-ID: Date: 23 Nov 90 17:45:27 GMT References: <1429@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> <1990Nov20.014330.23958@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <4181@kitty.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.com Reply-To: aboulanger@bbn.com Distribution: na Organization: BBN, Cambridge MA Lines: 54 In-reply-to: larry@kitty.UUCP's message of 21 Nov 90 04:33:35 GMT In Article <4181@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: I've been there, but not for quite some time. I am still using up stainless steel allen head cap screws that I bought there 20 years ago! They had quite a selection of hardware in the basement which was sold by the pound. The store is right in downtown Cleveland and is at one end of a triangular-shaped block. There used to be a decent surplus store on a main street south of Cleveland, not that far from Parma, but I can't remember the name. One of the highlights of interviewing for a scholarship at Case-Western was a visit by some of the Case-Western student-hosts and me to this place. I have now developed the habit of checking out the local surplus situation when I travel. One of the best-buy opportunities that I can suggest it to avoid the main-line surplus places. (Although Jerryco in Evanston is not bad on some prices.) In Gainesville FL, there was a basic metal-recycler that bought a lot of NASA, etc surplus. They bought the optical simulator used in the Apollo missions (made by Ferranti optical). What a bonanza! I still have the 8in achromats from this. Many bargains were also acquired at a private landfill including a Perkin-Elmer diffraction grating and cheap Neon-sign transformers. I think this way has long past not been viable. A favorite metals-oriented surplus place in Miami Fl is Simmons surplus. Today, a good resource is the advertising in the Nuts & Volts magazine. Subscription # 1-800-783-4624 For instrumentation-style surplus, check out C&H Sales in Pasadena, 1-800-325-9465. They are on the expensive end though. Two companies come to mind for the test-equipment surplus (expect to pay $$$): Microwave Equipment Company, 305-871-2171 (no catalog). 4121 N.W. 27 St Miami Fl. 33142 and Tucker Surplus Store 1717 Reserve St. Garland TX, 75042 1-800-527-4642 ex 135 In the Silicon valley area, I have visited Halted (HSC), 1-800-4-halted, Haltek 408-744-1333 and one other near HSC (ACE?). Haltek has a lot of basic-materials-style surplus. All Electronics Corp, Van Nuys, 1-800-826-5432 seems to be a pretty reasonable ($ wise, lots of stock) place. Yours in surplus, Albert Boulanger aboulanger@bbn.com