Re: Boeing Surplus

I knew they hadn't had anything like it in the past, just hoping
the "new management" from Boeing would do something like that when
they took over. I will check out the Shapiro Supply operation the
next time I'm in town.
The hard part is getting the goodies in your luggage for the
airplane! A couple of trips ago I bought some ceramic brickets for a
barbecue grill and had to explain what they were to the x-ray guy at
the airport.
Terry

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, Jon Elson <jmelson@a...> wrote:
>
>
> Terry May wrote:
>
> > This is a question for Jon Elson or anyone else who might know,
> >
> > I'm wondering since Boeing bought out McDonnell Douglas, if
there
> > is anything like the Boeing surplus sales going on in the St.
Louis
> > area?
>
> It may be historical, but McD did not have a real surplus outlet
open
> to the outside. I think employees may have had some system that
> allowed them to pick over stuff going out to the scrap dealers.
> One method was for McD to pull everything they wanted out of a
> building, and then let scrap dealers poke around and make a bid
> for the entire building's contents. That was a way to get rid of a
> huge amount of stuff with minimum effort. Shapiro Supply on
> Natural Bridge in St; Louis gets a lot of stuff from them. They
have
> 2 Quonset huts filled with stuff literally stacked to the ceiling.
> You want an AC power systems test station for the F-15?
> They got 3 or 4 of them, but they've been sitting in the rain for a
> while. Kind of drives me crazy to see this kind of stuff sitting
> in the rain, and angle iron inside the building, but that's their
> real business. They had ** 7 ** dumpsters filled with the radar
> seeker heads from Harpoon missiles! I don't know what they
> did with that stuff, but I had to work hard to resist bringing one
> of those home!
>
> They had 55 gallon drums of solid carbide circuit board drills in
> little plastic boxes, and I got a lifetime supply of those!
> They now have 10,000 Lbs of end mills from McD, according to
> their newspaper ad. Most, if not all, are regrinds, many of them
> are chipped. but, I got a good supply of them, too.
>
> Jon