Joel Kolstad wrote:

wrote in message
oups.com...
They told me the owner spends all day on the net trying to hunt down
surplus stuff he can buy.

I've always been curious... places like All Electronics and MPJA and Hosfelt
and ... that one near Dayton ... where did they find all their surplus
*before* the Internet? There must have been publications or something that
dealt with getting rid of surplus electronics?


They were on auctioneer's mailing lists, as well as the US government
surplus sale mailing lists. JIT manufacturing and lots of custom parts
has reduced the available surplus quite a bit. I watch Mendelson's (in
Dayton) change over the years from mostly military into industrial
surplus, and the way they treated customers changed as well when the
founders died off an their kids took over.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida