SOURCES OF USED ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS IN NORTH AMERICA, BY STATE, PROVINCE ARIZONA 1. ARE Surplus 2000 S 12th Ave South Tucson, AZ 85713 520-629-9927 Open Tuesday through Saturday. A good-sized collection of BA parts, e.g, switches, connectors, knobs, gears, electrolytics, capacitors, resistors, etc. A fair collection of BA test equipment. An occasional BA radio probably crosses their threshold, but doesn't stay long, and I wouldn't go looking for one there. Prices on parts are generally very reasonable, and proprietor has been known to haggle. I usually check here first before heading over to one of the *new parts* places when I need something. (Contributed by Dave Phillips) CALIFORNIA Northern 1. Mike Quinn Oakland (at the airport) 2. Sacramento Electronic Supply Co. 1219 S St. Sacramento, Ca. 95814 (800) 376-8800 South Bay 1. Halted Specialties SW corner of Central expressway and Lawrence expressway. Used to have a whole bunch of tubes in the rear. 2. Halted Specialties 3500 Ryder Street Santa Clara, CA 95051 3. Surplus Stuff (Curtis Trading) Fremont 4. Wierd Stuff Warehouse 1190 Kern Avenue Sunnyvale CA 94086 (408) 746-1100 Off Lawrence, near Halted 5. R & A Surplus San Jose off de la Cruz Avenue. 6. Haltek Electronics 1062 Linda Vista Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 (415) 969-0510 Near 101 and Shoreline Blvd. 7. Alltronics 2300 Zanker (between Brokaw and Trimble) San Jose, CA 95131 (408) 943-9773 8. Advanced Component Electronics (ACE) 3479 Kiefer Road - Santa Clara 1534 Berger Drive - San Jose On Kifer: go out the back way from Halted; they're on the corner of that street and Kifer. 9. Anchor Electronics 2040 Walsh Avenue Santa Clara, CA (408) 727-3693 10. HDB Electronics 2860 Spring Street Redwood City, CA 94063 (415) 368-1388 So. Cal. 11. Marvac Dow Electronics Pasadena Has a very good selection of parts for fixin' old radios, according to Dave Barts. 12. C & H Surplus Pasadena On south side of Colorado, west of Sierra Madre Blvd. 13. Apex Electronics 8909 San Fernando Road Sun Valley, CA 91352. (213) 875-1308 or (818) 767-7202. Old man Slater, the owner, still has the truck he drove out here in the fifties, buried under all the stuff out in the yard. (Michael Moore) 14. Inglewood Electronics 4701 W. Century Inglewood, CA (310) 674-2366 Had some 1L6's available for $27! 15. Gateway Electronics San Diego No BAs as such, but a nice supply of resistors, transformers, connectors, meters; according to Tom Bridger. 16. ElectronicTown San Diego, CA A door or two away from Gateway. My first visit and lo ... right there in plain sight were 5 R390 line level (Vu) meters. (Tom Bridger) 17. Murphy's Surplus Warehouse 401 N. Johnson Ave. El Cajon, CA 92020 (619) 444-7717, Fax 444-6750 There is a back and front area at Murphy's. You want the back area and to speak to Michael himself, if possible, says Dick Dillman. 18. California Metals San Diego, CA With the help of a local ham who knew the place inside and out, I was able to find and buy an R-390A in a cabinet. As Randy said, plenty of BA treasures are at this place, but finding them is a big, Big job. You'll need about a half-day to get through it all. Wear your boots, carry a flashlight, and wear gloves and long pants. (TB) 19. California Surplus Just over and down the street from CM. A great place for transformers, connectors, and resistors. (TB) 20. Anker Electronics San Diego, CA Literally took me 1 hour to find this place, even with Murray giving me instructions every 15 minutes when I'd get lost. Was only able to spend less than an hour and found 2 R-390A meters and a new or refurbed mech gear section for an RF deck. Murray has a ton of old and new stuff spread out in two big storage areas. You need about an afternoon to weed through it all. (TB) COLORADO 1. OEM Parts 3029 Hancock Colorado Springs, CO 80907 (719) 635-0771 All sorts of older stuff, including tubes and filament and high voltage transformers. 2. J B Saunders Electronics 4700 Sterling Boulder, CO 80302 (303) 442-1212 Lots of parts, bu they don't do mail order. Located just east of Foothills Parkway, about a block sout of Valmont Ave. 3. Quest Electronics 5715 W 11th Ave. Denver, CO 80214 (303) 274-7545 or questusa@ix.netcom.com ICs, caps, resistors, transistors, and tubes. They are mostly mail order, but you can also come in and browse. From I-25 take 6th Ave. west about 2 miles to the Sheridan exit. Go north 5 blocks to 11th Ave. Turn left on 11th and go a long block. Look for the big building with the flag pole. IDAHO Boise 1. Hi-Tech Surplus Computer parts, audio gear, components, (208) 375-7516 test equipment. ILLINOIS 1. Radio TV Labs One of two known surplus/boatanchor dealers left in the Chicagoland area. It's in Irving Park Road, just west of Central Avenue. It is literally packed to the roof with stuff, according to Mike Kana (AA9IL). 2. JB Electronics The other surplus test equipment outfit. 3446 Dempster Street Skokie IL 60076 (708) 982-1973 Jack Burg will share his opinions about damn near anything with you until your eyes begin to glaze, perhaps longer. He has lots of Tek and HP test equipment; not, however at flea market prices. 3. American Science and Surplus (formerly JerryCo) 3605 Howard Street Skokie IL 60076 +1-708-982-0870 Has lots and lots of surplus -- not necessarily electronics: WWII gun cameras, laser disk chassis, 6 volt VW wiper motors, LEDs, rubber brains, you name it, they've had it. 4. Triode Electronics Chicago (312) 871-7459 Good place for multisection can electrolytics, according to Lahlum Ross KB9JJR 5. Ham Radio Toy Store In Wheaton on Wesley Street between Main and Hail streets. Wheaton is 40 miles west of Chicago on Roosevelt Rd. The RR tracks are a few blocks north af Roosevelt, and the store is a couple blocks north of the tracks, maybe a 3 block walk from the train station. Great place for antenna, League pubs, antenna tuners, and riceboxes. (Michael Knudsen) IOWA 1. Collins Radio corporate surplus outlet Cedar Rapids KANSAS 1. Associated Electronics Overland Park 800 497-1457 Had a couple of R42 or R44 speakers, but the guy couldn't find them. MARYLAND 1. Wood's TV Mechanicsville (301) 884-3788 Has a good supply of dial cord and, according to k1zat, still has a lot of tubes on the shelf. MASSACHUSETTS 1. Electronics Plus Littleton, MA They seem to have a nice selection of chassis, some Jim-Pak, and some current and obsolete Radio Shack stock. I picked up a 50 uA meter there. Some prices were OK, some not. 2. Electronic Super Store 16 Normac Road Woburn, MA (617) 932-6800 You can see their big sign from 128 south from 93 and 128 junction. It is the first exit, Washington street. 3. Eli Heffron & Sons Cambridge Maybe it's now: ELI Incorporated 139 Hampshire Street Cambridge, MA (617) 547-4005 4. Linear Electronics 109 Hammond Street Waltham, MA (617) 894-7300 Had some 1L6s awhile back. 5. Young Engineering Shetland Industrial Park (near Pickering Wharf) Salem, MA They are located in a HUGE warehouse, and though they don't stock any true BA's they have a MASSIVE collections of OLD and NEW test gear, scopes, generators, meters, PARTS galore, wire, and all kinds of strange devices that are certainly VERY HEAVY. It's a great place to look around and ogle the old stuff that they buy off companies that go out of business. Some useful stuff too. MICHIGAN 1. Purchase Radio 327 E. Hoover Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Phone 313-668-8696 Dick Dillman reports: I knew I was in a "real" radio store immediately - by the smell...There was a good assortment of regular and fairly modern parts, but the real stuff was on the used equipment shelves and up on high shelves around the ceiling...a vast assortment of mainly broadcast receivers from 50's vintage back through the 20's arranged in no particular order I could determine. Some older microphones, too. Upstairs - apparently open by invitation only - was a very large inventory of tubes. Mostly sorted by type number too. More BC receivers and other odd bits up there too. Contact them if you're having a hard time finding a particular tube. The counterman - Daniel McCollough, VP & General Manager, was very friendly and made me feel immediately at home, especially after I mentioned I'd come from California to see his shop. Clearly, he's a man who enjoys radios, his job, and meeting people. I give it a rating of three stars, worth going out of your way to visit. 2. Surplus Trading Co. 2700 N. M-63 Benton Harbor, MI 49022 (616)849-1800 Lots of surplus from Heath Company and Zenith Data Systems. 3. Pat Walsh Bendon Harbor - Just off Main Street. Open only on Saturday mornings. Good deals on old Heath and ZDS stuff (he gets what Surplus Trading doesn't). MINNESOTA Minneapolis 1. Antique & Amateur Radio Consignment Center St. Paul. This is possibly a potential dream come true. It is a used radio store of tube type gear. 2. AxMan Surplus - chain of 4 stores, original at: 1639 University Avenue St. Paul (612) 646-8653 Has all sorts of parts and stuff. No radios, but some BA test gear and lots of parts. 3. Asset Recovery Corporation 1907 Charles Avenue St. Paul (612) 641-0789 4. ABC Electronics 317 7th Avenue North Minneapolis, MN (612) 332-2378 This place is in the warehouse district in Minneapolis. Small, but packed with stuff, mostly components. Sometimes they close on Saturdays, and sometimes not. If you go there, call ahead to make sure they are open. 5. Midwest Surplus & Electronics 124 12th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN (612) 339-9533 Mostly a junk shop, but has some good stuff buried in. 6. Acme Electronics Minneapolis, MN It's an old store, with some stock that goes back a ways, [including] some boatanchor power transformers. (Bill Hawkins) 7. Radio City 8. Dexis Corporation 9749 Hamilton Road Eden Prairie, MN (612) 944-7670 MISSOURI 1. STARKS ELECTRONICS *Wholesale Supplier of Surplus Communications Equipment. Dennis Starks, Owner The "Military Radio Collector" In-house Museum, Public Welcome! Box 95, Hwy. 65 Cross Timbers, MO 65634 Ph. 417-998-6517 2. Electronics Exchange St. Louis On St. Charles Rock Rd a couple blocks west of 170. All surplus, consignment. Old 50's and some fairly new test equipment. Best prices in SL area. 3. Gateway Electronics St. Louis On Page near Midland. About 20% used/surplus, rest new stuff. All stuff is in open bins where you can examine it. Best ham stuff in SL. NEBRASKA 1. Surplus Sales Omaha There has been a thread about problems people have had dealing with this firm. However, they have a showroom, which is their stock room, where one can wander around, turn on lights, etc. NEVADA 1. Radio World 1656 Nevada Highway Boulder City, NV 89005 (702) 294-2666 The name is appropriate as one can find everything from marine to CB and from the most modern ham equipment to BAs at Radio World. None of this impersonal buying of a sealed box and goodbye stuff one ff the large amateur chain stores. The place is run by BA list member Dave Floyd who makes you feel immediately at home. Four stars, worth a special trip just for the hospitality. (Dick Dillman) NEW HAMPSHIRE 1. Electronic Surplus Service 186 Granite Street Manchester, NH Tel: (603) 624-9600 Store hours: M-F 10-6, Thursday 10-8, and Saturday 9-5 Directions: 293 North to exit 5, right on Granite St. right on Commercial St. Electronic Surplus Service is on the right. 2. 13 Main Street Hillsboro NH 03244. (603) 464-5625 Chuck and I were not quite prepared for what we saw - right there in the middle of town was a shop window filled with boatanchor ham radios - a Collins KWM-2, Collins TCS, HRO-5, Drakes and many other great classics. Owner Chris Sieg is very knowlegeable about these old pieces of radio history and this is clearly a labor of love. (Michael Crestohl) NEW MEXICO 1. Unknown - in E. Albuquerque near the UMN campus In east Albuquerque, out the street that runs on the south side of the UNM campus is a surplus/neat stuff kind of store. It's pretty far out east, almost to where the street (Candelaria Street????) meets I-40. If you exit off I-25 going east along the south side of campus, you'll come to a 'Y' intersection. Take the south fork and go out to 7800 or so (maybe 7500? I haven't been there in a while) and look for metal rack cabinets in front. The store is in a six-store building about 100 feet back from the street. 2. Electronic Salvage 9012 Central Avenue SE (506) 296-6389 Albuquerque Maybe the same place as #1 ? 3. L. A. Salvage Co. Los Alamos NEW YORK 1. The Antique Lover RT 30 - Mayfield, N.Y 12117 (near Newburgh) 518-661-6424 Dick and Terry Peters, owners. Dick is a ham and BA collector. Mayfield is in Upstate New York, and those of us who have lived in Syracuse and Utica do not bandy that term about lightly. (Sorry, New York City, Westchester County *does not* qualify!) Dick is located about 40 minutes north of the Amsterdam Thruway exit. He is an old time gent, and frequently has old radio magazines and service manuals. (He was reading a 1937 Popular Mechanics when I came in the door, so that will give you a feel...). I spotted a big box Simpson VTVM with 1" diameter probe, several 1940's broadcast table radios, some boy's radio stories, and a "frequently needed" TV schematic collection as well. (John Wendler) 2. The Radio Room North Massapequa, NY 11758 (Long Island) 516-795-9371 Specializes in used amateur equipment. OHIO 1. Mendelson's Electronics Dayton (800) 344-4465 A good place to visit while at the hamfest. Barry Ornitz found some R-390 style meters and boxes of knobs. 2. Fair Radio Sales Co. 1016 E. Eureka St. Lima 45802 (419) 223-2196 This is, of course, the mecca of BA collectors, especially the military electronics group. 3. Vintage TV and Radio Supply 3498 West 105th Street Cleveland, OH 44111 (216) 671-6712 4. Play Things of the Past 3554 West 105th Street Cleveland, OH 44111 (216) 582-3094 Gary Schneider's store; good luck finding it open. ONTARIO 1. Globe Electronics 3585 Keele Street Downsview, Ontario M3J 3H5 (416) 631-7770 2. Electronic Surplus Industries 1191 Lawrence Ave West Toronto Ont. M6A 1E2 Phone (416) 787-1837 Owner: Sid Lipkowitz 3. Toronto Surplus and Scientific 608 Gordon Baker Rd. Willowdale Ont. M2H 3B4 Phone (416) 490-8865 FAX (416) 785-7955 Owner: Mike Employee: Graham OREGON 1. R5-D3 Electronic Surplus 6111 SE 82nd Ave Portland, OR (503)774-6560 (Contributed by Liles Garcia) 2. REJUVENATION, Inc. 1100 SE Grand Avenue Portland, OR 97214, USA (503) 238-1900. A leading producer of Victorian and Arts & Crafts lighting fixtures, all from original tooling. Vast range of period (second-hand) and repro accessories, including carbon filament pip-ended Edison light bulbs. (Andrew Emmerson) 3. Cascade Surplus Electronics 8221 N. Denver Avenue Portand, OR 97217 (503) 285-0832 Always shuttered, so still try and enter even when it looks shut. They're open TH,F,SA 10:00 am - 5:00 pm; SU noon - 4:00 pm. 4. Zero-Gee Electronics 1890 SW 3rd Street Corvallis, OR 97333 (503) 754-9422 Zero-Gee started out as a used bookstore years ago, until a Jameco rep talked the owner into putting in a rack of electronic Jim-Pak parts. It was so successfult he got ride of the books and went into electronic surplus and new parts. (Mark Forbes) TENNESSEE 1. Hardware Etc Nashville Mr. Grossman has, among other sets, a RAL-7 and RAK-7 with power supplies and original manuals. They show signs of storage but seem to really be in excellent condition, though I did not take time to look inside. (Joseph Pinner) TEXAS 1. Altex Electronics Austin 512 832 9131 Rich Herndon was there recently and found some old-style Eveready blue and red "B" batteries with cat and the "9" on the front. 2. Tucker Electronics Dallas Has a selection of BA's with display and for sale items at usually ridiculous prices. They're in Garland 1 block off Jupiter RD across from Esystems. Take Jupiter off 635 cross Miller RD and watch the left side. If you go past Esystems at 1200 Jupiter you've gone too far. 3. City Electronics Bellaire (Houston) (713) 663-6066 He has fun stuff like high wattage pots and tube sockets. He also has the more modern stuff like toroids (a *really* good selection), a good selection of things like plate chokes for BA rigs, and miniature pots for things like your HT. Good assortment of knobs which might be of interest to the BA folk. He might also be a source for BA transformers. He even has speaker grill cloth. He is, unfortunately, only open 9 to 5 Mon-Fri. (Ray Mack) UTAH 1. R. J. Silk 906 S. 1900 E. Salt Lake City, UT. (801) 583-6616 VIRGINIA 1. Cain Electronics (804) 855-3394. Owner is a vintage radio collector. Has a museum and, more to the point, two 7' X 3' cabinets full of old multisection electrolytics, as well as a supply of other old parts. Ask for Joe. WASHINGTON 1. Electronic Dimensions Puyallup Avenue Tacoma A wide variety of stuff from the 1940's to the present: test equipemnt, radio components. (Mark Zenier) 2. Radio Steve's Old Technology Shop Aurora North, just north of Green Lake, in Seattle. 3. Boeing Surplus scrap yard Kent, WA Sells wire by the pound; decent prices on tools. Real pot luck. (Tom Bruhns) 4. Radar Electric By the Seattle Center Best place in town for electronics tools. (MZ) WISCONSIN Milwaukee 1. Radio Recyclers 7730 W. National Ave. West Allis, WI 53214 (414) 771-7121 MTWF: 10-5 Sat: 10-3 Voice mail type answering machine that has updated listings of equipment for sale by category (ie HF, VHF/UHF, HTs, etc). BTW, he also has a big stock of NOS parts: tubes, inductors, odds & ends. (Dennis Doonan) 2. American Science & Surplus 6901 W. Oklahoma Ave. Milwaukee, WI (414) 541-7777 They have science stuff, some military items, and some test equipment. Not worth a trip into the city for, but if you are here (not too far from Radio Recycler, BTW) it can be a source for some of those little "weird" project parts. (Dennis Doonan) 3. Superior--Racine 1006 State Street Old fashioned tv/radio parts store that still has boxes of old and surplus items to brouse through. I worked there 25 years ago and went back for some parts last month. Except a bit dustier, it was the same as 1969. (DD) 4. Chester Electronics Sheridan Road Kenosha, WI 53140 Repair parts for radio/tv repair shops, some consumer goods. Still has a large stock of NOS parts and connectors.