I wasn't sure of your question or need so I'll offer my thoughts or experience.
My amateur radio hobby is such that I am in contact with people who have quite the source of supply - most often discards or junk. They, like you and me, collect all sorts of things then quite often give them away or sell them for very little money at local hamfests. To add to that other friends know I am a tinkerer and they'll often offer me all sorts of odd things. I've taken apart microwave radar frequency measuring instruments, fiber optic splicing fixtures and all sorts of things passed along to me.
An example of how I come by this stuff - I chat on a VHF mobile radio every morning on my way to work. A fellow ham who works at Harris stopped by on the weekend to drop off quite the elaborate SWR meter, some toroidal coil forms and some RF log op amps. All as a result of discussions on the way to work. I passed some other stuff back to him.
I end up turning away a lot of stuff - simply time and the space to store it.
I do have a supply of late 60's capacitors, left to me by quite the inventor and retired technology teacher from Gates. Advise if you have a need.

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