A legendary storehouse of fabulous cheap wonders, the Boeing Surplus store in glorious Kent, is closing in December.

Boeing will still sell off stuff it no longer wants (hardware, upholstery, office furnishings, computers, power tools, obscure measuring instruments), but it’ll sell it all online. Where’s the adventure in that?

As you might expect for a place with so many engineering nerds among its regular customers, a “Save Boeing Surplus” web site is already up n’ running.