Welcome to www.smegware.com where dreams don't come true and no good-deed goes unpunished.
Reluctantly... After not participating in the Research-and-Development community for some time now 'Smegware' has decided to sell it's Electronics R&D Laboratory in hopes that it may help perpetutate the 'mad garage scientist' from whom most great industrial innovations became possible.
Ugh!
Thankfully... There are still six or seven of us left. Uh Oh! We're down to five...
Anyway... After supporting so many 'unparticipating' people for so long I now have to disolve many of my favorite assets in order to just survive. Right now I need a barn and a shop and some livestock fences far more then I need a late/post 'cold-war' era Electronics Laboratory.
Therefore: I have compiled a list of items by type and types by category of what I am offering. Most of this collection was acquired thru public surplus sales and auctions from primary military/aerospace contractors in the Southern California area circa 1980's. All items should be considered 'new old stock' and are in 'near factory condition' and have been properly stored since their acquisition.
Finally... I am still deciding how I want to split the collection into 'lots' for auction. Of course; some items will be removed from auction and sold individually. So... I am also taking suggestions for how to group the lots so as to get maximum value. I'm hoping that good grouping (context) will encourage bidding by targeting the appropriate audience.
In the meantime... Please feel free to browse the collection or contact me Smegware Surplus with Comments, Suggestions, Complaints or Requests. All are welcome here.
If none of this makes sense to you, you may want to take a look at pictures of the Smegware Laboratory in it's current state. Not anything like what it was in it's glory days.
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| antique | antique/vintage electronics. |
| attenuator | attenuators step and/or constant impedance. |
| breadboard | breadboard and breadboarding supplies. |
| calculator | calculators mostly TI. |
| capacitor | capacitors all types mostly Military. |
| connector | connectors all types mostly Military. |
| controller | vintage controllers electronic and mechanical mostly Military. |
| crimp | all types sizes and configurations. |
| crystal | quartz timing crystals (oscillators) mostly Military. |
| dial | moslty old radio dials some multi-decade. |
| diode | small signal, rectifier, zener - some high-power, mostly Military. |
| fastener | screws washers nuts clamps rivets etc... |
| fuse | various. |
| gyro | gyroscopes - rate - inertial guidence/stabilization, all Military. |
| heatsync | heat-sync for additional power disipation. |
| ic | integrated-circuits including potted-modules mostly Military. |
| inductor | inductors and RF chokes mostly Military. |
| meter | meters and gauges pneumatic hydrolic and electric. |
| microwave | microwave attenuators couplers filters and waveguides. |
| motor | AC DC servo, ring torque, synchronous, stepper, linear, mostly Military. |
| relay | relays mechanical and solid-state mostly Military. |
| resistor | resistors all types mostly Military. |
| resolver | resolvers, non-contact, rotational, linear, sensors, all Military. |
| switch | switches various types mostly Military. |
| transformer | small-signal and high-power. |
| transistor | small-signal high-power RF microwave mostly Military. |
| wire | hookup multi-conductor shielded coax magnet all Military. |
| Found 81 types in 27 categories with a total of 279062 items. |
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