P & T Surplus

Good junk here for artists and experimenters. My wife, an artist, always insists on stopping here.

A great junk pavilion in the middle of nowhere. Enough surplus equipment and supplies to build your next army of robots, just in case you want to become an evil dictator. Good prices too.
Not as quirky as the great Ax-​Man in Saint Paul, Minnesota, but few things are. Still, worth a trip if you’re in the area and need a spare hydraulic ram, vacuum tubes, and miscellaneous gauges. Steampunk away!

How is it that I’m the first person to review P&T Surplus?!?
This place is really cool. It’s a junk shop, and mean that in the best way. They have electronics, computers, and miscellaneous mechanical stuff (metal stock, plastic stock, etc)
I believe they also deal in scrap metals by the pound, if you happen to have a ton of scrap brass rods or something.
There’s a cool vibe here where local artists (that, I assume, have used parts from P&T Surplus to create sculpture and other mixed-​media art) have pieces on display.
They also have a really large section of obsolete computers and parts, which is good if you need to replace an ISA card or some other kind of 10+ year old computer part that nobody seems to sell any more.
To me, surplus stores are about picking up obsolete electronics for experimentation and parts, not art, but hey, if that’s what keeps this place going, then I’m happy for it.
The prices are not marked on a lot of the surplus items, so you have to go ask at the counter. The prices can be a little high, but luckily they are quite nice there, and sometimes you can dicker with them a little.
One thing that is a little weird is that a lot of the electronic surplus seems to come from IBM (some of it is still labelled) and I always wonder if they came upon it honestly. I think they probably have some kind of deal to purchase the IBM scrap, but you never know.
Anyway, there really are no other options in the area for an electronics junk-​hound like me. If you are interested in surplus and electronics, you owe it to yourself to stop by.