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free_electron:
Don't know where to post this so i plonked it here.

Another stalwart of silicon valley is closing. After ACE components, Weirdstuff warehouse , HSC ( Halted) now excess solutions (which acquired lots of stock from HSC and ACE when they packed it in) is also folding at the end of this month (June)
I was there last saturday and they were removing all the ins from the wall. all the Ic's and transistors are gone except for the stuff that is down in the large racks and categorized under 'miscellaneous'. you have to take your time and dig ... i found a bunch of LM399's
They still have plenty of resistors, caps, connectors and all the other stuff.

They are on 7th street close to the fairgrounds and UPS (they moved .. again.. milpitas to SJ , then HSC moved , HSC moved again , HSC got eaten by Excess , Excess moved... all the moves probably cost them more than the whole inventory was worth...)

hurry.. only 11 days left. and then the last man standing will be Anchor electronics but their range is very limited.

EggertEnjoyer123:
Any test equipment?

free_electron:
some old cruft, mainly with defects , still overpriced... that was always the problem at halted. they always thought their test equipment was made from solid gold.
old multimeters with 31/2 led displays ( very old Hp, the one with their own nanoprocessor in it) , some keithley 175 , old tek analog scopes (22xx or 24xx series , not familiar with tek model numbers) some power supplies with analog meters.

Main interest would be their surface mount parts. 1$ for a reel of resistors... i grabbed a bunch of through hole ic's , transistors and diodes mainly as spares for test equipment i have.  things like 7805 7808 7812 and the negative variants. i grabbed national semi parts. vintage 1990's. some transistor sin metal can like 2n2907 2n3904 . 1n914 and a bunch of the 1n zeners. some power diodes that are now obsolete but in use in the HP E36xx and E361x series. stuff for my fluke and keithley meters.

i basically grabbed the service manuals for any equipment i have that uses thru-hole, made a list of all diode's transistors and ic's and spent a good two hours digging .. got about half of it. spent 45$ and have enough spares to repair tenfold of the number of machines i have. it'll last the rest of my life if i should fry one (which is doubtful.. they are nearly indestructible apart from when they develop capacitor problems. i snatched a bunch of the nichicon and rubycon capacitors for those supplies as well.

it's getting harder and harder to find some of the parts. and whatever little is out there pulls exorbitant prices... 12$ ebay for a transistor that originally was like 2$ ... and they are used on top of that !
anyway , i got the important bits. i'm confident enough a 7805 will still be around in to220 20 years from now. that irf044 fet in to2 ? not so much... and there's no substitute.  same for some of the special darlingtons with built in bias resistors. no replacement possible

guenthert:

--- Quote from: free_electron on June 21, 2022, 01:07:09 am ---[..]
I was there last saturday and they were removing all the ins from the wall. all the Ic's and transistors are gone

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   Any idea whereto?  I meant to come back with a catalogue of sorts, since they (somewhat understandably) couldn't be bothered to list them on-line and I can memorize only so many part numbers.  There where some neat ones among those.  iirc they had even LT1028 and some OpAmps in metal cans.


--- Quote from: free_electron on June 21, 2022, 01:07:09 am ---... all the moves probably cost them more than the whole inventory was worth...)

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    just to throw oil on the fire: I was told the last move was due to Amazon purchasing the estate to build a warehouse ...
 :(

james_s:

--- Quote from: free_electron on June 21, 2022, 02:18:21 am ---some old cruft, mainly with defects , still overpriced... that was always the problem at halted. they always thought their test equipment was made from solid gold.
old multimeters with 31/2 led displays ( very old Hp, the one with their own nanoprocessor in it) , some keithley 175 , old tek analog scopes (22xx or 24xx series , not familiar with tek model numbers) some power supplies with analog meters.

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That mirrors my experience with the one surplus place I know of around here, overpriced test equipment that just sits on the shelves forever. When it's cheaper to buy on ebay you know it's overpriced. I sometimes think these businesses tend to be an excuse for hoarding rather than anything else. They don't really want to part with the stuff, but if it's "for sale" in the store they can tell themselves that they're not hoarding.

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