[paphillips]

When I moved to SV from the Portland area about 20 years ago, the first thing I sought out was a surplus store like Wacky Willy's (closed), the Tektronix country store (maybe still open?), or Surplus Gizmos [0]. My friends and I used to frequent those places in high school and college when we needed electronics and electro-mechanical parts for our nerdly pursuits.

I had been making the SV surplus store rounds at least once a month - Halted (HSC), Weird Stuff, Excess Solutions, etc (plus the Fry's swap meet). Those nicely furnished my garage workspace with industrial-quality furniture, equipment, and other random bits, but sadly all have closed.

Nowadays I am down to one SV store on my short list that is still around, and they only sell office furniture and electronics workstations - neither of which I can use any more of. I'm hoping these types of stores are a trailing economic indicator and a fresh group will pop up soon.

Any there any other surplus/liquidation stores in the SF Bay Area still around (not the military surplus kind)?

[0] https://portlandrobotics.org/links_surplus.php?link_id=21