[Hallicrafters] Re: Electronics stores and internet sales

[jeremy-ca]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
To: "jeremy-ca" <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
Cc: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>; "Peter Markavage" <manualman at juno.com>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Re: Electronics stores and internet sales


> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 4:39 PM, jeremy-ca <km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
>> We have one surplus shop that downsized from an old mill building in
>>  downtown Manchester, NH about 10-15 years ago when every tenant got 
>> kicked
>>  out for renovation of the building for more upscale tenants.
>
> This must've been sometime after the roof collapse. Found some good
> stuff in that place, including 3TF7 ballast tubes for a buck or two
> each. They had a good supply of rubber feet also, different shapes and
> sizes.

I forgot about that, he moved from the L part to the middle on the ground 
floor. At one time there was lots of industrial RF equipment there. Id load 
up my pickup every Saturday and then strip the vacuum variables, roller 
inductors, xfmrs and other goodies. Then all the left overs went to the dump 
the following Saturday on my way for more.

There was another place in Lowell that was an RF goldmine until 1985 when 
that mill got renovated. A full 6 floors of stuff and a close held secret 
known mostly to a group of us at Wang. Those were the days I was building 
one and two  holer 4-1000A amps for customers. I had the run of the Wang 
engineering prototype shop on weekends to do all the chassis bending and 
punching.

>
>>  He relocated to just off I-93 on the outskirts of Manchester and has 
>> been
>>  there ever since.
>
> There was another one over in Hudson somewhere, can't recall the name
> of it. I remember having to walk through an office area, past desks,
> to a room in the back.

That moved to Derry where the auto auctions are now.


> And there was someone near HRO in Salem also, straight down the street
> where you normally would turn left to go to HRO. He used to have those
> huge cardboard boxes about five feet deep, full of 'stuff'. Lots of
> computer slag there.

Slag was a good name for it. There were also a few in Lawrence. Some good 
stuff as long as you were packing some protection.....


The old HRO on Stiles Rd and the early days on RT-28 had a nice selection of 
used gear. Very little now.

And then there was Graham Radio in Reading and Evans Radio in Bow and Herb 
Gordon in Harvard.

I moonlighted for Herb for a few years overhauling S Line, 51J's and the 
various R-390/390A's he was always selling.

Carl
KM1H



>
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ
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