I saw on the Steadicam Forum that Rig Engineering will be having a clearance sale in January (on their site, the "For Sale" section on the Steadicam Forum and later E-Bay) of excess and older items. It sounds like brackets, stages, etc and might be well worth checking out. I bought an item on E-Bay from them and they were great to deal with.
They mentioned that a lot of pieces would be useful for home-builders. Guess they know about us, Charles.
They do. I had accepted a registration into the HBS board a while ago. Also, I had gotten their permission to use their pics when I was writing my third book about a year ago. So they know