Industrial surplus places?

[Nathaniel Bezanson]

Last weekend, I found myself in Cleveland at the appropriate hour to
drop in on HGR Industrial Surplus, over in Euclid. What a fantastic
smorgasbord of machines and stuff!

There *must* be something like that in Detroit, but probably ten times
bigger. Only thing is, I can't find it. Anyone?

-Nathaniel-

[Jerry Bocci]

I don't know about that place (half the page is blocked by our firewall), but there's Industry Surplus in Belleville (http://www.industrysurplus.com/).

-Nathaniel-

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[Glen Moore]

Nathaniel,
You should search out machinery movers as many of them buy and sell excess machinery inventory and sit on them until someone comes along and in this market they are full up with inventory with no buyers and the auctions keep happening and now there is nowhere to "store" them as they are "FULL UP"  consequently prices for used is falling faster than my bank account.  Locally auctions such as repocast.com partners with 5-6 other auction houses that "do" machinery companies.  They can be found at http://www.oasinternational.com/home  and repocast at  http://auction.repocast.com they also "do" real estate and I've seen incredible prices for stuff in state.
Glen Moore

> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 07:46:34 -0700
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[Roger S]

... if people would stop overbidding. My brother mentioned that the
owner is allowed to bid on the repocast auctions, which at some level
I guess makes sense, but then they become a "shill." Heads they bid
up the price for someone else to buy an overpriced item, tails they
get it back for at most the 13% fee and don't have to sell below the
price they want.

[Keith Mc]

Did the old "Sarah-Lil" industrial surplus finally go out of business,
or move to somewhere else? It used to be in an old rotting out
car factory building. I believe it was on Central, in Detroit.

No heat, with a dirt floor, the roof open to the elements,
and dripping water everywhere during rains, the old huge plant floor
was filled with an amazing array of huge surplus industrial machines
left over from the heydays of auto production.

The few times I visited it they did have lathes, mills and other shop scale
machines . But they they looked like toys when compared to the size
of some of the multi-story machines and presses that were also there.

But that was decades ago. The last time I was in the area and
tried to find it, the gate was closed and locked. Are they still around?

- Keith Mc.

[Rob]

I have won a few auctions on Repocast. It takes a lot more time than
it's worth, since it does seem like mystery bids drive up the price on
most items.

My question to you guys is: Where is the biggest HamFest in Michigan?
I like vintage electronic components, and the small hamfests would
probably be not worth a trip for me. Also any electronic component
stores that have been around a long time that might have some
lingering old stock. Probably wouldn't be as much fun as going to a
hamfest though, lol.

[Joseph C. Bender]

On 6/6/2012 03:12, Rob wrote:
> I have won a few auctions on Repocast. It takes a lot more time than
> it's worth, since it does seem like mystery bids drive up the price on
> most items.
>
> My question to you guys is: Where is the biggest HamFest in Michigan?
> I like vintage electronic components, and the small hamfests would
> probably be not worth a trip for me. Also any electronic component
> stores that have been around a long time that might have some
> lingering old stock. Probably wouldn't be as much fun as going to a
> hamfest though, lol.
>

That's a good question. Even the big hamfests have gotten rather small.

Honestly, the USECA hamfest in the fall, the Marshall fest in the spring
and the Monroe fest used to be the big ones. I haven't hit up as many
fests as I probably should, but I still go to quite a few to keep
support up, many have gotten sadly tiny.

For everything else, there's the annual pilgrimage to Hamvention in Dayton.


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[Stephen Hermann]

is Findlay Ohio still going?

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[Joseph C. Bender]

On 6/6/2012 16:29, Stephen Hermann wrote:
> is Findlay Ohio still going?
>

Yeah, on or around the 10th of September. Probably will be the 9th this
year, but nothing official has been announced yet.

http://www.arrl.org/hamfests-and-conventions-calendar for all your
hamfest finding needs.

(I'll also note the original question was for *Michigan*, otherwise I
would have mentioned it. :) )

[Rob]

"For everything else, there's the annual pilgrimage to Hamvention in
Dayton."

That is what actually gave me the idea to go to a hamfest. Sadly I
didn't know it existed until days after it happened this year. I was
hoping we had something similar in Michigan. I'm pretty business
savvy, and I know if you want to be successful with certain things you
want your business or event to be a "destination". That is why we have
one large Ikea in Michigan instead of 20 little ones. Capelas, Mall of
America, Ikea, and even Hamvention are successful because they got
this concept right. This also explains the shrinking of the smaller
Hamfests.

My advice to all the small hamfests would be suck up their pride, and
join forces with all the other hamfests in Michigan and do one big
blow-out hamfest. This would make them a destination and people would
make the pilgrimage from all over to come to it. Maybe then we would
get people coming into the state instead of leaving it! I know I would
probably be the first person in line :-)