Setting up a clinic room in your home.

Second hand stores and newspaper adds listed under health and medical are good sources. I have found nurses uniforms, soaker pads, a wheel chair, a jerry chair, adult diapers,a commode,belts to make restraints, plastic mattress protectors,hospital pillows,hospital blankets and numerous other items to furnish a clinic room, at a fraction of the price of new. Some of it even has that delicious hospital or clinic smell.

If you check your local hospitals you may find that they sell their used equipment by auction or a bid system. Often the prices are barely that of scrap metals, particularly heavy goods such as beds and exam tables.

e-Bay is an excellent source although you need to watch out for shipping charges. Often someone has bought the entire contents of a doctor's estate and the medical instruments are worth no more than the household goods in their mind. There are also quite a few e-Bay Stores that sell new instruments such as speculums and forceps at excellent prices. Most are made in Pakistan and not the high quality of some of the German and American instruments but they are also only 1/4 of the price and suitable for many years of fetish play.

A good toy collection is a lifetime pursuit. As soon as you find something you really like you will find something else you like better. When you come to selling your own obsolete equipment which has been upgraded you know you are serious.

Thank you for the places you could find stuff.. never thought of the paper..

Http://swmedical.com/view_categories.php

Good stuff here! Beds, carts, endoscopy stations, tables, monitors, infusion pumps, surgical tables, even radiology toys, for those with unlimited budgets!

http://www.dotmed.com/equipment/35/23/145/all/

Exam tables at GIVEAWAY prices, starting as low as $50!

http://www.dotmed.com/auctions/featured/surgical-center.html

Here, they are auctioning off an entire hospital. Prices for simple stuff start as low as $1.

http://www.dotmed.com/equipment/29/20/1007

Colonoscopes starting at just $500! Plus all of the accessories, to turn a plain scope into a video scope, so the girl can see her intestine, in living color!

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/summary/116834494/SUMMARY?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Here, they explain how to use a scope!

And, all of this was found with a simple 5-minute search for “used hospital equipment”.

If you add in all of the consumer-grade stores, there are literally millions of places to outfit your own little medical suite!

Great post, thanks for the information

I'm retiring from MedFet activities for a number of reasons. I have a collection of high quality instruments and miscellaneous related stuff that I'd like to sell at a reasonable price. If interested, email me at promedvid@juno.com and I'll send you a list.

I found a nice exam table and rolling stool for 200.00. beautiful quality on craigs list

I get all of my stuff via craigs list when doctor offices close or move to a new location

One thing that I found mondo useful has been http://www.searchtempest.com/

They let you search craigs listings for a much wider area. I found my female procedure chair that goes on ebay for $3800 for $75 and a few hours ride.

Where do you keep everything? It seems like a problem if you have house guests (unless they want to play along).

I've purchased most of our larger equipment and instruments from Ebay. Dotmed.com is also a good source, just make sure to remember they are legitimate sellers to real medical buyers, so discretion is advised.

Wow medcouple you have better and more equipment than most ers I have worked. I love at least a tour.

I'm insanely jealous of you folk in the US who just seem to have access to everything second hand!

@ Sable you would be surprised at the amount of medical equipment that is available in the UK. Ranging from new to use. A lot of medical related paraphernalia can be bought off e-bay as well as from various medical suppliers and even amazon at a reasonable price.

I just noticed I said my Ritter 415 was a whopping $50 in one post and a whopping $75 in an other. Contrary to popular belief I am not totally loosing my mind. The table proper was $50, but one of the axis would not articulate and I needed to procure a new motor start capacitor for it, and that set me back another $25. So, $50 for a semi working table, $25 for a new part, and $75 and some elbow grease for a functioning table.

And yes, I do count us lucky that we can buy used and surplus stuff pretty inexpensively, though more and more middle of the road Americans have started scrapping stuff or selling stuff to scrappers. I am not against scrapping, it is great recycling, but things should only be melted down when they are beyond any use. It pains me to see some of the stuff people bring in to be melted down, and most yards won't sell you stuff in the yard, even for above (scrap) market value.

What happens to all the surplus stuff in your country?

Amazon and Ebay. they have virtually everything.

Online 😃 you can also call thift stores, leave your numer and ask them to call you when any items arrive. They will do so, since they love to get rid of items fast.

Vet supply places may have useful items.