[Milsurplus] Apex Electronics

[J. Forster]

I've seen surplus store owners lose hundreds of thousands of dollars on
precious metal futures.

The "I'll trash it first" attitude is common.

Some years ago, there was a chemical research company in Boston. I went to
their bankrupcy auction. They had a couple of rooms full of nice chemical
glassware.

The auctioneer refused my bid of $10, ridiculing it and said he'd rather
see it in the dumpster. I left - and came back the next day and filled my
car from the dumpster, twice, for free.

Go figure.

-John

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> 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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