I’M FINALLY SELLING THOSE ELECTRONIC PARTS…
The longtime followers of this thread will remember when I purchased the pallet full of used cabinets back in 2014 and they ended up being completely filled with neatly organized (and free!!) electronic repair parts. Follow this link to the beginning of the story at
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When I first saw the spare parts, I knew they HAD to be worth some money to SOMEONE out there and decided to inventory what I had into an Excel spreadsheet. Parts were OEM HP (Agilent), Tektronix, and Fluke brands for old, but high dollar oscilloscopes, multimeters and other test equipment.
Fast forward to July of 2017. After settling into the new house and family life, and finding myself with small bits of time available again, I decided to finally figure out some outlet for them. I found an electronics forum that discusses the repair of old electronic test equipment and figured I would list the parts I had available there. It turns out that a Google search on any of the part numbers I have listed will turn up my forum thread on the first or second search results page. So anyone diligent about finding these old and somewhat rare parts are sure to stumble upon my offering.
I purchased the cabinets for $1400 and there was a $300 freight charge. The guy who sold the cabinets to me decided he didn’t want to mess with emptying out the cabinets (without my knowledge) because he assumed I might be able to do something with the old parts. Boy was he right!!
Here is a sample of some of the items in the bins:
I’ve been selling parts for nearly two years now. It’s a slow process that actually fits into my schedule nicely and I have mailed out about 25 orders so far (so maybe 1 a month, on the average). I have sold only 193 of the 12,935 parts in inventory (1.49%), but have already made $915 on the sales. (Having the inventory list in Excel makes it easy to determine those numbers!) So basically, the money for one of the two cabinet stacks has been recouped and I’m working on the second one. Perhaps if I keep doing it for another couple of years, it’s very likely the entire $1700 will be recouped.
Every now and then, someone seems interested in buying bigger lots of the parts, but I’m not quite ready to GIVE the stuff away yet. Someday, I may be ready, but for now, it’s sort of fun helping people fix their old equipment and making a few bucks along the way. The only real downside is over half of the orders are outside the USA, so I have to deal with customs forms and such, but at least that’s a good learning experience.
If anyone needs any NOS electronic test equipment repair parts, send me a PM!
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