Surplus Switchgear Buyers
Surplus Switchgear Buyers
Surplus gear is the best-case sale: often unused, still on the original skids, and worth close to what somebody would pay for new stock without the lead time.
- Paid before pickup
- No testing required
- Freight and rigging covered
- Any amperage, any condition
Request a Quote
Send a nameplate photo and receive a firm number, usually the same day. There is no obligation.
Funds change hands before a single section leaves your property. There is no consignment and no waiting on a downstream resale.
You are never asked to test, energize, clean or repair the gear. Our team evaluates it from the nameplate photos and our own inspection.
Lowboys, flatbeds, cribbing, section separation and permits are billed to us. That cost is already priced into the offer you receive.
Disconnection coordination, dismantling, rigging out of the electrical room and loading are performed by our crews at our expense.
Surplus switchgear accumulates for predictable reasons. A project was cancelled after the equipment shipped. A spare section or a set of breakers was purchased to protect against downtime and never needed. A standardisation programme left a warehouse full of gear at the wrong voltage. A supply house carried inventory that stopped moving. In each case the equipment is functionally new and the owner is paying to store it.
This is the gear we pay the most for, and it is also the gear most often written off internally as worthless because it has been on the books for years. If you have crated breakers or never-energised sections in a warehouse, that is real money sitting on a pallet.
We buy surplus in single units and in bulk. For supply houses and contractors clearing inventory, we will quote an entire lot as one number and take everything in one pickup.
Surplus situations we buy from
- Cancelled projects with switchgear already delivered to site.
- Unused spare breakers and sections held against downtime that never happened.
- Warehouse inventory left over from a standardisation change.
- Electrical supply house stock that has stopped moving.
- Contractor laydown yards at the end of a large job.
- Utility, municipal and institutional surplus programmes.
Request a Quote
Send a nameplate photo for a same-day number.
Every class of switchgear we buy
Distribution equipment only — that is the whole business
Low Voltage Switchgear
600V class drawout and fixed-mounted lineups pulled from indoor electrical rooms.
Medium Voltage Switchgear
5kV and 15kV class metal-clad lineups with vacuum or air breakers, indoor and outdoor.
Switchboards
Front-accessible service entrance and distribution switchboards from commercial buildings.
Unit Substations
Close-coupled primary, transformer and secondary assemblies from industrial plants.
Motor Control Centers
MCC lineups with starter buckets, VFDs and combination starters from plants and utilities.
Circuit Breakers
Loose air, vacuum, insulated case and molded case breakers, individually or by the pallet.
Panelboards
Distribution and branch panelboards, loadcenters and column panels in bulk lots.
Outdoor Switchgear
Walk-in and non-walk-in weatherproof enclosures, pad-mounted and skid-mounted lineups.
Arc-Resistant Switchgear
Type 2B arc-resistant lineups with plenums and pressure relief, low and medium voltage.
Metal-Clad Switchgear
Compartmentalized drawout medium voltage gear with grounded metal barriers between sections.
Bus Plugs and Busway
Plug-in and feeder busway runs, elbows, tees and bus plugs from industrial ceilings.
Switchgear Scrap
Burned, gutted, flooded and unrepairable gear bought for copper and metal content.
What happens after you accept
We confirm the pickup window against your schedule, send our own crew and equipment, and pay you before anything moves. If a utility or licensed electrician disconnect has to happen first, we coordinate the timing. If the sections have to come apart to clear a doorway or an elevator, we do that work rather than asking you to arrange it.
Medium voltage lineups are treated with the care they require. We verify the gear is de-energised and grounded before our crew touches it, and we work to your site's lockout procedure rather than our own.
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Find your gear
Amp ratings
Manufacturers
- Square D
- General Electric (GE)
- Eaton
- Cutler-Hammer
- Siemens
- ABB
- Westinghouse
- Allen-Bradley
- Federal Pacific
- Challenger
- Schneider Electric
- Powell Industries
- Mitsubishi Electric
- Toshiba
- Russelectric
- ASCO
- Zenith Controls
- S&C Electric
States
- California
- Florida
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
Guides
Questions we get asked
Straight answers
Do you charge anything to quote or to remove the gear?
No. Quoting is free and removal is our cost. If you accept our number, nothing comes out of your pocket at any stage.
How quickly can this happen?
A number usually comes back the same day you send photos. Pickup is typically within one to two weeks, and faster when you have a demolition date or lease deadline driving it.
What if I only have one section or a few breakers?
That is still worth a call. Small quantities are frequently best combined into a lot, but we buy single sections and loose breakers routinely.
Do you buy switchgear in every state?
Yes, all 50 states and the District of Columbia. We stage freight regionally, so location affects our scheduling rather than your price.
Ready for a number?
Call or text a nameplate photo. Same-day offers.
Request Your Quote
Nationwide. No obligation.