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Surplus electronics shops

Workshopshed

 

This tweet today showed some cool surplus electronics at Hst /halted electronics supply in Santa Clara, CA. Does anyone know of real shops where you can walk in and buy old stuff like this?

 

I remember Harding's in Cheltenham but it's been years since I was there so I don't know if it's still going.

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  • Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK. J (Jonny) Birkett - MANY an hour spent in there over the years, I now don't make my wife suffer - I go into Maplin now (or shop online with CPC et al).

     

     

    Quote from 'shoplincoln' website.

    "Quirky Birketts offers customers a vast range of new and secondhand equipment.

    Products include vintage/military/commercial/amateur radios, wireless and test equipment, aircraft instruments, microphone, amplifiers, speakers and many many more.

    If you're interested in creating your own electronic projects then Birketts is the place to visit. Birketts motto ‘not a piece of ‘junk’ in sight’. "

     

    'Website' here - for what there is of it! (E14 gets a mention on the "electronic components" link)!!

     

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    Interior (from their webpage)

     

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  • I definitely had some of those tapes!  Probably didn't put Speccy games on them with my twin tape midi system though... ahem!

  • in reply to Workshopshed

    I'm not sure who the cover artist was and past searches for scans of the calendars never proved successful. Not sure if the artist was ever credited in the catalogue. Anyone still got a copy from around that time ?

     

    [ Lionel Jeans appeared to have done some of the '87 work (and confirmed by Maplin on Facebook). The '79 catalogue appears to be marked with "ROD BROWN '78" which I think may refer to the artist Robert D. Brown. Some references to Peter Elson and Chris Foss but may just be influences rather than the cover artist.]

  • And the covers on the catalogues, I've definately owned that 1986 edition

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  • in reply to danielw

    ...I used to like Maplins, the smell of a fresh catalogue and the temptation of extra stuff with your order.

     

    And don't forget the great wall calendars they used to do - the large ones with sci-fi artwork... image

  • Nice to see those e-ink displays, Little snapshots of life before disconnection!

     

    I just searched for hardings electronics, Yell.com says it is open, and there's a recent review.

     

    As well as Tandy and their bags of stuff, I used to like Maplins, the smell of a fresh catalogue and the temptation of extra stuff with your order.  But it's not the same, I guess there's less market for makers, I read they are one of the high street shops in trouble and they are looking for a buyer... Hmm Element 14 / Farnell on the high street!