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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