[sdiy] Norvac in Porltand OR closing

[jays at aracnet.com]

I miss Wacky Willes.

Cascade Surplus is still sort of alive. http://www.cascadesurplus.com/

You go to the web site and they are being sued by someone that claims
to have bought vacuum tubes from them and got mercury posioning. This
might be the death blow for them.

Jay S.



On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:13:52 -0700, "John Speth" <jspeth at avnera.com>
wrote:
> Folks in Portland, OR:
> 
> I was visiting Norvac electronics in Beaverton, OR this weekend and
> they're going out of business.  They're selling a lot of old school
> stuff (NTE DIP stuff in particular), tools, supplies, etc. at lower
> prices (but certainly not "blowout" prices, IMO).
> 
> I think they're passing the torch to Surplus Gizmos in Aloha since their
> business cards were at the checkout counter.  Hopefully Surplus Gizmos
> can get rid of some of those worthless antiques and serve the former
> Norvac customer.
> 
> John Speth, Software Engineer, Avnera
> 
> 
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