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Yeah... I'm in liquidation mode....in my dreams.
I was contacted by a Mike (a picker) in Auburn who does cleanouts. He's working on some buildings with another guy (a scrapper) that made up a lab of who knows what for. The owner worked on his own. It was not a company. The guy also worked at the GE Industrial Park labs in here Syracuse.
They've been working on these buildings for a couple weeks. I'm told the place is filled with racks and racks of equipment (boat anchors), boxes, boxes, boxes, more equipment, laboratory glassware, more boxes, etc.
Mike pulls out anything he thinks he can use, or sell at the flea market. The other guy is scrapping everything. Mike goes over and takes out what he can before the other guy tosses it on the truck.
Mike knows nothing about tubes or has any desire to hold on to them. If I don't take them, they'll go to the flea market, or who knows where. He needs the room the tubes occupy for other items from the lab that he is bringing home.
I intended to buy them all but when I saw how many he had, and determined that only 20% was worth taking home, I had to hope that he would allow me to take just the 20%. I offered him a very fair price and he accepted it with no problem. Some really really nice stuff.
Then he says he can bring back more. More???
Well...I might as well.
So I went back a couple days later and there was more....MORE than the first load he had offered me. Again....about 20% of this load had my interest. I made an offer for that.
He really wanted to clear these out. More stuff was being brought back that day, and there obviously was no room for it.
So there sits the new load and the remains of the first load. Gary, please, take it all. You can have it for this amount. I don't have the room for these.
A few deep breaths. Okay. Let's load up the van.
Mike says, I'll call you in a couple weeks. I'll get more.
I have the largest Telefunken tube I've ever seen. It has a US War Department tag on it from 1946. Very cool piece. Then there's the Western Electric pieces. One is the largest tube I've ever seen. I do believe that's going in my display cabinet, if it fits.
I pointed out the box full of tubes containing mercury and I told him to take them back to the lab and let it be known what they contain. I let him know they need to be disposed of properly. Gotta contact someone in the County for information on who to take them to. I've got a lot of mercury too that needs to go to the right place.

Your interest may vary but the results are the same (Byrd 2020)

I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)

Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)

Edits: 08/01/21

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