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Title: Apex Electronics in Burbank, CA
Post by: DrumAnBass on November 08, 2006, 07:42:28 pm

Electronics salvage yard Apex Electronics; some damn cool stuff - check out this gallery of photos I saw posted on BoingBoing:

http://eecue.com/images_archive/eecue-album-1414-1-APEX_HDR_Dorkbot_LA.html

Back in my "CyberPunk" phase I would buy cool old circuit boards from them and sew them into leather jackets etc.  It is also SciFi movie set decorating heaven!

I bet someone could make an insane "Brazil" (the movie not the country!) themed cabinet based around junk from Apex...

More photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/heathervescent/sets/72157594363689317/
and here: http://flickr.com/photos/zoetica/sets/72157594362210731/

Title: Re: Apex Electronics in Burbank, CA
Post by: AtomSmasher on November 08, 2006, 08:50:42 pm

Wow, I'll have to check that place out sometime since its only about an hour from my house and I'm down that way pretty often anyways.

Title: Re: Apex Electronics in Burbank, CA
Post by: boykster on November 09, 2006, 01:10:13 am

Pretty cool place.....

Reminds me of that show "Junkyard Wars"....I used to love that show...the original brit version Scrapheap Challenge and the first 1 or 2 US seasons with Cathy Rogers and Robert Llewellyn....

Lllewellyn was entertaining as always

Title: Re: Apex Electronics in Burbank, CA
Post by: ChadTower on November 09, 2006, 09:09:29 am

Stop taking pics of my basement. 

Actually, I wish my basement didn't resemble that place.

Title: Re: Apex Electronics in Burbank, CA
Post by: rdagger on November 09, 2006, 12:10:15 pm

I've been there a couple of times.  I got lucky once and scored a few volcano switches (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=51688.0).  However, that was just dumb luck.  It's hard to find anything amid the mess.