Dave Jones, of the EEV Blog, takes a trip to southern California, and tours Apex Electronics:
http://www.eevblog.com/2010/10/30/eevblog-124-a-tour-of-apex-electronics/ To those outside the Los Angeles area, this is one of the few electronics surplus places still in existence, in this area. Its located in the north east corner of the San Fernando Valley, still inside incorporated Los Angeles city limits. The San Fernando Valley, or just referred to as 'The Valley', is a valley located on the other side (north) of those hills where the Hollywood sign is located. Hollywood (also inside incorporated LA), and the rest of the LA is south of those hills (referred to as the Hollywood Hills east of the 101 Fwy, and the Santa Monica Mtns west of the 405 Fwy, In between its a toss up). Apex and Sun Valley are located just below the Hansen Dam, which holds back a large water reservoir. When the next earthquake hits, you don't want to be in there. If you're not buried by tons of used test equipment, the dam may break and wash your carcass away. It almost broke in the earthquake of 1971. Apex has a few tubes, but I never saw anything I really wanted. It does have a bunch of old tube sockets. All types. I use to get the unused duo-decal sockets, used by dekatrons (GS10C, 6476A), nomotrons (G10/241E), the E1T counter, and also many CRT tubes, that have 12-pin bases. I don't know if they still have any left. The nixie members, here scour Apex occasionally. I haven't spotted any dekatrons or nixies in the test gear, but you can't see a lot of it, so who knows what's really there. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
