End of Surplus?

[Joe R.]

At 01:50 AM 4/27/05 -0500, you wrote:
>William Donzelli declared on Monday 25 April 2005 09:08 pm:
>> >    Any thoughts on this?
>>
>> As you know, but others may not, if you get in good with a scrap guy,
>> he will sell you just about anything, provided you don't cross him.
>
>I "haven't" acquired a 50W CO2 laser (working) and several small 
>labratory x-ray setups that can attest to that fact.
>
>If your scrap dealer is telling you this stuff, you aren't nearly good 
>enough friends with him. :) 

  That's true. He's not one of my primary sources and he is sort of
difficult to deal with. But so far he's telling his regular customers the
same thing.


 I've got a really good repore going with 
>the guys at my primary scrap/surplus place, which helps immensely in 
>getting interesting stuff, for cheap.  When I was going through a huge 
>load of early-80s era equipment they managed to get a month or so ago, 
>the guy said to me "I'm glad you're getting this stuff, before the 
>pilferers got to it."

   I have one source that REALLY gets a lot of stuff that should never have
gotten out. (You DON'T want to know!!!) They turn it all over to me. I
NEVER sell any of it even though I've had SIGNIFICANT offers for some of it.

    Joe

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