Quite the opposite - before I retired, GE would often scour the planet for critical replacement parts for our MRI, CT, and PET scanners. We had a power unit fail one morning and the replacement came from France in about 18 hours - unfortunately it was bad so GE found another in SE Asia and got it to us within 24 hours. These were the only two PUs that would match our system. And they were massive, all told the weight was probably 8 tons.

This was not an unusual event. I think in 2013 alone we had about six of these situations. Parts have come from all over including a monitor from Kodiak Alaska, storage drive from Sri Lanka, etc.

The performance contracts behind this equipment are quite substantial.

So ... if you see an MRI on the curb, arrange to store it - you might make a few dollars down the road. Though the last open MRI we bought weighed about 28 tons.