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Illinois Switchgear Buyers

Name: MJ Electrical Switchgear Buyers
Address: US
Telephone: 954-740-1983
Price range: $$

Sale your Electrical Switchgear now ! We buy used, surplus and decommissioned switchgear everywhere in Illinois — from a single switchboard section behind a strip center to a full metal-clad lineup at a closed plant. Payment is upfront and we cover the freight, the rigging and the teardown.

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Paid before pickup
No testing required
Freight and rigging covered
Any amperage, any condition

White outdoor-rated switchgear enclosures staged on pallets in the yard with crew in hard hats inspecting the sections before shipment

50States Covered

377Illinois Locations

Same DayTypical Offer Turnaround

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Quote an Illinois Lineup

Send a nameplate photo and receive a firm number, usually the same day. There is no obligation.

01You Are Paid Before It Moves

Funds change hands before a single section leaves your property. There is no consignment and no waiting on a downstream resale.

02No Testing Is Required

You are never asked to test, energize, clean or repair the gear. Our team evaluates it from the nameplate photos and our own inspection.

03We Cover Freight and Rigging

Lowboys, flatbeds, cribbing, section separation and permits are billed to us. That cost is already priced into the offer you receive.

04Our Crews Handle Teardown

Disconnection coordination, dismantling, rigging out of the electrical room and loading are performed by our crews at our expense.

Switchgear we buy in Illinois

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.

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Largest Illinois markets

Quote an Illinois Lineup

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Every Illinois location

377 cities and towns

Addison, IL Algonquin, IL Alsip, IL Alton, IL Anna, IL Antioch, IL Arlington Heights, IL Auburn, IL Aurora, IL Barrington, IL Bartlett, IL Bartonville, IL Batavia, IL Beach Park, IL Beardstown, IL Beecher, IL Belleville, IL Bellwood, IL Belvidere, IL Bensenville, IL Benton, IL Berkeley, IL Berwyn, IL Bethalto, IL Bloomingdale, IL Bloomington, IL Blue Island, IL Bolingbrook, IL Boulder Hill, IL Bourbonnais, IL Bradley, IL Braidwood, IL Breese, IL Bridgeview, IL Broadview, IL Brookfield, IL Buffalo Grove, IL Burbank, IL Burr Ridge, IL Cahokia Heights, IL Calumet City, IL Calumet Park, IL Campton Hills, IL Candlewick Lake, IL Canton, IL Carbondale, IL Carlinville, IL Carmi, IL Carol Stream, IL Carpentersville, IL Carterville, IL Cary, IL Caseyville, IL Centralia, IL Champaign, IL Channahon, IL Charleston, IL Chatham, IL Chester, IL Chicago, IL Chicago Heights, IL Chicago Ridge, IL Chillicothe, IL Cicero, IL Clarendon Hills, IL Clinton, IL Coal City, IL Coal Valley, IL Collinsville, IL Colona, IL Columbia, IL Cortland, IL Country Club Hills, IL Countryside, IL Crest Hill, IL Crestwood, IL Crete, IL Creve Coeur, IL Crystal Lake, IL Danville, IL Darien, IL DeKalb, IL Decatur, IL Deerfield, IL Des Plaines, IL Dixon, IL Dolton, IL Downers Grove, IL Du Quoin, IL East Alton, IL East Moline, IL East Peoria, IL East St. Louis, IL Edwardsville, IL Effingham, IL Elburn, IL Elgin, IL Elk Grove Village, IL Elmhurst, IL Elmwood Park, IL Eureka, IL Evanston, IL Evergreen Park, IL Fairfield, IL Fairview Heights, IL Flora, IL Flossmoor, IL Forest Park, IL Fox Lake, IL Fox River Grove, IL Frankfort, IL Frankfort Square, IL Franklin Park, IL Freeburg, IL Freeport, IL Gages Lake, IL Galesburg, IL Geneseo, IL Geneva, IL Genoa, IL Gilberts, IL Glen Carbon, IL Glen Ellyn, IL Glencoe, IL Glendale Heights, IL Glenview, IL Glenwood, IL Godfrey, IL Grandwood Park, IL Granite City, IL Grayslake, IL Green Oaks, IL Greenville, IL Gurnee, IL Hampshire, IL Hanover Park, IL Harrisburg, IL Harvard, IL Harvey, IL Harwood Heights, IL Hawthorn Woods, IL Hazel Crest, IL Herrin, IL Hickory Hills, IL Highland, IL Highland Park, IL Highwood, IL Hillsboro, IL Hillside, IL Hinsdale, IL Hoffman Estates, IL Homer Glen, IL Hometown, IL Homewood, IL Hoopeston, IL Huntley, IL Inverness, IL Island Lake, IL Itasca, IL Jacksonville, IL Jerseyville, IL Johnsburg, IL Joliet, IL Justice, IL Kankakee, IL Kewanee, IL Kildeer, IL La Grange, IL La Grange Park, IL LaSalle, IL Lake Barrington, IL Lake Bluff, IL Lake Forest, IL Lake Holiday, IL Lake Villa, IL Lake Zurich, IL Lake in the Hills, IL Lakemoor, IL Lakewood, IL Lansing, IL Lebanon, IL Lemont, IL Libertyville, IL Lincoln, IL Lincolnshire, IL Lincolnwood, IL Lindenhurst, IL Lisle, IL Litchfield, IL Lockport, IL Lombard, IL Long Grove, IL Loves Park, IL Lynwood, IL Lyons, IL Machesney Park, IL Macomb, IL Mahomet, IL Manhattan, IL Manteno, IL Marengo, IL Marion, IL Markham, IL Marseilles, IL Marshall, IL Maryville, IL Mascoutah, IL Matteson, IL Mattoon, IL Maywood, IL McHenry, IL Melrose Park, IL Mendota, IL Metamora, IL Metropolis, IL Midlothian, IL Milan, IL Millstadt, IL Minooka, IL Mokena, IL Moline, IL Monee, IL Monmouth, IL Montgomery, IL Monticello, IL Morris, IL Morton, IL Morton Grove, IL Mount Carmel, IL Mount Prospect, IL Mount Vernon, IL Mount Zion, IL Mundelein, IL Murphysboro, IL Naperville, IL New Lenox, IL Niles, IL Normal, IL Norridge, IL North Aurora, IL North Chicago, IL North Riverside, IL Northbrook, IL Northfield, IL Northlake, IL O'Fallon, IL Oak Brook, IL Oak Forest, IL Oak Lawn, IL Oak Park, IL Olney, IL Olympia Fields, IL Orland Hills, IL Orland Park, IL Oswego, IL Ottawa, IL Palatine, IL Palos Heights, IL Palos Hills, IL Palos Park, IL Pana, IL Paris, IL Park City, IL Park Forest, IL Park Ridge, IL Paxton, IL Pekin, IL Peoria, IL Peoria Heights, IL Peotone, IL Peru, IL Pinckneyville, IL Pingree Grove, IL Pittsfield, IL Plainfield, IL Plano, IL Pontiac, IL Pontoon Beach, IL Posen, IL Princeton, IL Prospect Heights, IL Quincy, IL Rantoul, IL Richton Park, IL River Forest, IL River Grove, IL Riverdale, IL Riverside, IL Riverwoods, IL Robbins, IL Robinson, IL Rochelle, IL Rock Falls, IL Rock Island, IL Rockford, IL Rockton, IL Rolling Meadows, IL Romeoville, IL Roscoe, IL Roselle, IL Rosewood Heights, IL Round Lake, IL Round Lake Beach, IL Round Lake Park, IL Salem, IL Sandwich, IL Sauk Village, IL Savoy, IL Schaumburg, IL Schiller Park, IL Shelbyville, IL Sherman, IL Shiloh, IL Shorewood, IL Silvis, IL Skokie, IL South Barrington, IL South Beloit, IL South Elgin, IL South Holland, IL Sparta, IL Spring Grove, IL Spring Valley, IL Springfield, IL St. Charles, IL Staunton, IL Steger, IL Sterling, IL Stickney, IL Stone Park, IL Streamwood, IL Streator, IL Sugar Grove, IL Sullivan, IL Summit, IL Swansea, IL Sycamore, IL Taylorville, IL Tinley Park, IL Troy, IL Tuscola, IL University Park, IL Urbana, IL Vandalia, IL Vernon Hills, IL Villa Park, IL Volo, IL Warrenville, IL Washington, IL Waterloo, IL Watseka, IL Wauconda, IL Waukegan, IL West Chicago, IL West Dundee, IL West Frankfort, IL West Peoria, IL Westchester, IL Western Springs, IL Westmont, IL Wheaton, IL Wheeling, IL Willow Springs, IL Willowbrook, IL Wilmette, IL Wilmington, IL Winfield, IL Winnetka, IL Winthrop Harbor, IL Wonder Lake, IL Wood Dale, IL Wood River, IL Woodridge, IL Woodstock, IL Worth, IL Yorkville, IL Zion, IL

Why Illinois sellers call us

Switchgear gets retired for a handful of predictable reasons: a service upgrade, a change of building ownership, a plant closure, a gut renovation, an arc-flash study that condemned an obsolete lineup, or a demolition where the electrical room is the last thing left standing. In every one of those cases the owner ends up with several tons of awkward, energized-yesterday equipment and no obvious way to convert it.

Scrapping is the default, and it is usually the wrong call. A scrap price reflects metal weight minus the yard's hauling cost. Our price reflects what the lineup is worth to somebody who needs that amperage, voltage class and breaker type, which for serviceable gear is frequently several times the scrap number. We also buy genuine scrap-grade equipment, so there is no downside to asking first.

Long row of grey medium voltage switchgear and unit substation sections with louvered ventilation panels inside an electrical room, tagged and ready for removal — bought in Illinois — Medium voltage sections lined up in an electrical room, tagged and ready for our crew to break down.

Selling switchgear in Illinois

Straight answers

How much of Illinois do you cover?

All of it. We list 377 Illinois cities and towns, and we buy outside those too — the list is for navigation, not a limit on our service area.

Do you charge for pickup or freight?

No. Freight, rigging, cribbing, section separation and permits are our cost, and they are already accounted for in the offer.

What size gear do you buy in Illinois?

Everything from 100A panelboards up through 5000A main switchgear and 38kV metal-clad lineups. Small panels are best sold as a lot; a large lineup is worth a call on its own.

Will you buy switchgear that has sat outside for years?

Yes. Surface rust, faded paint, a pried-open door or standing water in the bottom of an enclosure do not disqualify a lineup.

Switchgear to move in Illinois?

One section or a whole electrical room. Call or text.

Call or text 954-740-1983

Request a Quote

Anywhere in Illinois. No obligation.