[Milsurplus] Apex Electronics

[Peter Gottlieb]

Many stores have gone bankrupt or closed over the decades and in a good number 
of cases the inventory becomes landfill.  How many rare radios or special tubes 
have met this fate because the store owner's attitude was "if you don't give me 
what *I* feel it's worth it will go to the grave with me"?  How many of their 
families lived meal-to-meal because of this attitude?



On 2/2/2011 7:55 PM, Ian Wilson wrote:
> I've visited Apex a few times over the past 5 years. On my first visit I was
> able to gain
> entry to a room containing many tubes. The room was in the scary condition
> typical of
> Apex - sky visible through parts of the roof, partial collapses in some
> places, precariously
> stacked metal objects with sharp corners...
>
> Some interesting stuff in there, including a number of 250TH-type tubes in
> the spring
> carriers. I eventually collected a few things I thought interesting but not
> rare (803s, 812s,
> things like that). My plan was to purchase these things, look up some tubes
> that weren't
> well known to me at the time, and return on a future road trip. This plan
> was thwarted by
> being asked for an astonishing amount - protective amnesia has set in, but
> the average
> must have been around $50/tube. Since they only take cash I was able to
> weasel out.
>
> I don't imagine the state of the room has improved in the past couple of
> years.
>
> I still drop by once a year or so but haven't spent a cent there since that
> first visit.
>
> 73, ian K3IMW
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