[Milsurplus] Apex Electronics

[J. Forster]

Said one fisherman to another:

"You shoulda seen the one thatr got away!"  :)

-John

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> Being in the right place at the right time, pure luck, can yield a
> bonanza.
> I've heard of many more such events than I've had a chance to participate
> in,
> the latter being few and far between.  I've never had a fantastic haul
> opportunity and missed several by a hair, unfortunately.  I missed an
> entire
> Bell System step-by-step office being demolished, including cord boards,
> switching system, motor generators, a huge room full of spare parts, power
> supplies, cable, hundreds of phones still in boxes.  I caught the tail end
> of a
> surplus store in NYC going into dumpsters.  I missed a small warehouse of
> older
> Tek, HP etc. gear which ended up being put into compactors by a front end
> loader.  And more.
>
>
> On 2/2/2011 8:38 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> 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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