We are popping across the pond for a few days, are there any decent surplus electronics places in the Phoenix area ??
Peter
-- Peter A Forbes Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk
We are popping across the pond for a few days, are there any decent surplus electronics places in the Phoenix area ??
Peter
-- Peter A Forbes Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk
Jim Thompson's garage? ;-)
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it.
Hello, Prepair! You wrote on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:09:18 +0000:
PL> We are popping across the pond for a few days, are there any decent PL> surplus electronics places in the Phoenix area ??
PL> Peter PL> -- PL> Peter A Forbes PL> Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK PL> snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk PL>
There's Electronic Goldmine in Glendale (whoops, their latest flyer says the address is in Scottsdale) Used to be a "MHz Electronics", Glendale, many years ago. Tri-Tek (Phoenix) used to carry surplus, Also try Circuit Specialists, Scottsdale. Try Yellow Pages.
With best regards, Brett Holden. E-mail: snipped-for-privacy@bellsoh.net
Here are some possible places, Peter.
2.2) Phoenix 2.3) Scottsdale 2.4) TempeBut since they are not links any more, I will email them to your address above.
If you have time when you are in Phoenix, come on down to Tucson and see the Titan Missile and Pima Air Museums, and take the tour of the USAF aircraft reclamation center.
Dave Foreman
The Apache Reclamation place you gave details of was well worth the visit. It is a small fronted place with a shop reception, but if you go left through the the next room there's lot of old testgear, then if you go left again, there's a room full of valves (tubes) and semi's.
Then, we were asked if we had been out back...
There is about 2500sq ft of racked single-storey warehouse, shelves full of almost everything, including fasteners up to 3/4", pipe fitting, contactors, bearings, components and so on.
We picked up 400+ pces of a 5-way connector that we use on our work stuff, plus a 1953-made 1lb copper soldering iton, brand new, plus other stuff.
Highly recommended!
We also did Pima/Amarc Tour on Monday, temperatures got to 93F on the car outside temp display, so the aircon on the tour coach at 12midday was much appreciated. Didn't do the Titan museum, my wife wanted to go to the Sonora Desert Museum and Saguaro National Park after we left Pima.
Peter
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You have had a very busy visit, Peter. Dave Foreman
Well, we did just under 1000 miles of driving, including 3 visits to the two Fry's Electronics places to get some new hard drives and a run out to Roosevelt Dam and back along the old unmade road to Apache Junction.
Hire car was a Pontiac G6, we paid for a Chevy Aveo but they had run out of the smaller cars when we arrived so we got the V6 for the same price, something that seems to happen a lot at airports.
Peter
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Yes, the rental companies are always happy to stick you with a gas (petrol) guzzler and pretend they are doing you a favor in the process. When you have reserved a smaller car, the concept of "reserved" would seem to mean that they ought to have it on hand, but that's not the way the rental (hire) companies actually operate.
-- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by
At $2.10 to the £ we don't mind too much, we are into $10 to the Imp gallon in the UK, so $3 to the US gallon is relatively cheap....
We left a small set of Nixie tubes in the car when we turned it in, haven't heard from Avis since, although we did contact them that day and gave them full details of the items.
Peter
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