Great Surplus Stores? 518
An old friend of mine, Todd San Martin, passed on a link to me of a great surplus place in Orlando that has lots of old nasa gear and more, and it made me think that it's probably time to talk about great surplus shops again. Not just the aforementioned skycraft or the well known Weird Stuff , although feel free to dicuss those too, but I thought it would make a cool post as a jumping off point for people to talk about their favorite shops especially those near aerospace facilities, both online and off.
Soviet Surplus??? (Score:4, Funny)
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I wonder... (Score:2, Funny)
Sell to Us Link at Skycraft (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hmm ... interesting surplus items (Score:4, Funny)
You'll only get one from a geek who gets married. Sometimes not even then. Not Surplus
* Commodore 64s
Make nice web servers [www.hut.fi]. Not surplus.
* Brain Transplants
There could never be enough to provide governments with brains - sorry. Not surplus.
* Bending Unit
Hey, my unit "bends", and the wife likes it that way. Most definately not surplus.
* Condoms
Well, maybe some of the geeks around here have those.
* Beer
???? Surplus beer? Never. I'm Canadian.
* Slashdot Coders
OK. Slashdot "Speel Chekers", duplicate catchers and editors who catch dupes are needed, not more
coders - I'll give you that one. But I doubt they're very interesting, so maybe not.
* Windows NT 3.5.1 Licenses
There was, as far as I'm concerned, a surplus once production of those things went above zero units. Interesting? Nope.
Hmmmm - 1 for 8. You need to improve big time, bud.
Soko
Re:Active Surplus in Toronto! (Score:3, Funny)
That includes a giant ape [activesurplus.com]! And no, I'm not making this up. =)
TH Electronics in Fort Collins, CO (Score:1, Funny)
And if you buy bulk CAT-5 from them, the colorblind guy will try to crimp the ends for you and will deny vehemently that it's taking him 10 minutes per end because he can't see the difference in the colors.
It's a fun place.
Re:Active Surplus in Toronto! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Science junk and more... (Score:3, Funny)
You don't say?
Re:I'd hate to say that too (Score:1, Funny)
Re:halted specialties (Score:2, Funny)
There's nothing I hate worse than getting stuck in the checkout line behind an old lady who's buying a few hundred assorted subminiature surface mount resistors. The clerk usually wastes a bunch of time trying to pick each one up with tweezers to attempt a barcode scan. This never works, so each one has to go under the microscope while he manually keys in the UPC. One time, the guy sneezed and scattered most of the merchandise across 3 checkout lanes.
To add insult to injury, the old lady usually waits until the whole tedious process is complete before starting to dig her checkbook out of her purse, then fills in her ledger before handing over the check, then puts her purse away before the clerk asks for her driver's license.
Building 19 (Boston) (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Netherlands???? (Score:3, Funny)
This is no time for a philosophical discussion! We're talking surplus stores here....
Re:Soviet Surplus??? (Score:3, Funny)
While I'm sure that our competitor offers a fine product, you will find our American Foreign Aid product to be superior. It is no accident that nine out of ten countries choose American Foreign Aid.
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Cool!!! (Score:3, Funny)
I'm really glad that they have FSC 8810 [dla.mil] - I always wanted to buy an army surplus cow!!!
Seriously, though, it is a really good site. I just wish I could save enough pennies to buy something in the FSC 1810 catagory.