So when I was younger I got to go to all these cool places for take your daughter to work day; job sites. My dad's in construction and I loved picking up little left over things or cool looking pieces of "garbage" from the sites, like those little metal pieces that come from putting in new plug boxes, I still have my collection of those fake coin like things. So when my dad acquired a closed Sumco plant I was ready to rummage. This place is the creepiest, coolest playground. The company relocated the crystal growing facilities and wafer manufacturing to Ohio/overseas, both too far to take all the weird equipment they had at the Salem plant. We're talking huge equipment, strange equipment, and miles of wire and duct work. I've been there twice already to get some shelves for my jars, and laundry area (see this post). But both times with out a camera, which is so NOT cool. I had to show my blogging buddies. So check it out, some random shots to give you a taste:
Saw that when I first walked in.
Brent hangs from a mini crane thing used to switch out or look at (not really sure) parts of the huge like fuse things. They had these neat red lines going over everything, and crazy dials. At full power this plant's electric bill was $700,000 a month. Even with the little bit of power on now you can still here this loud hum in the room.
Weird parts and fittings were in boxes everywhere, and manuals for the water dionization (sp?) plant and stuff.
No one wanted to roll me around in here, but I totally would have fit.
Sciarrino does that Tae Bo guy proud on the catwalks above the crystal growing room.
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Hey I know, let's walk through a creepy underground tunnel and then go up a stairway in the pitch black darkness using only my flash as illumination. They could so film a second X-Files movie here. 
There are so many tubes at this place; pink tubes, florescent tubes, iron tubes that look like Augustus Gloop could get sucked up in one, all kinds of tubes.
I'll be back for you little a just you wait.