{"id":1395,"date":"2009-03-23T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2022-12-28T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T20:48:45","slug":"los-angeles-area-surplus-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/los-angeles-area-surplus-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Area Surplus Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I spent a weekend in LA visiting Tony<\/a>, who is building an awesome wood veneered enclosure<\/a> for my Wifi Radio project.<\/p>\n

While I was there we spent a day checking out various electronics surplus shops in the area, several of which Tony had never visited before.<\/p>\n

Here are the highlights of our tour:<\/p>\n

All Electronics<\/a> (Van Nuys, CA)<\/h3>\n

Most people know (or should know) of All Electronics as a catalog<\/a> store with a long history in electronics and a decent website<\/a>.\u00a0 It turns out (I was surprised by this) that you can visit their retail store at 14928 Oxnard Street in Van Nuys.<\/p>\n

The store doubles as a makeshift electronics museum, with lots of vintage consumer and industrial equipment strewn around the room.<\/p>\n

Stuff to look for: power supplies<\/a>, handfuls of LEDs<\/a>, reels of SMT components<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"All
\n\"Xformers\"
\n\"LEDs\"
\n\"All<\/p>\n

Apex Electronics<\/a> (Sun Valley, CA)<\/h3>\n

This is what surplus electronics is all about!\u00a0 Absolute goldmine of bizarre electronics surplus equipment perched on the edge of civilization in Sun Valley<\/a>.\u00a0 Wire, motors, meters, huge capacitors, electronic components, antennas, hardware, strange military stuff, hydraulics, pneumatics, you name it.<\/p>\n

This is probably the best place to find weird surplus electronics junk in all of California, now that most of the Silicon Valley greats are gone or closed to walk-in customers.<\/p>\n

We budgeted an hour here and could have spent all day.\u00a0 I would budget at least 2-3 hours or you won’t get to explore the whole store.<\/p>\n

Need some decomissioned rocket launchers<\/a>?\u00a0 You’ll find them here.<\/p>\n

More photos of Apex on flickr.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"APEX\"
\n\"No
\n\"ESP-130
\n\"Flight<\/p>\n

Last year I posted about how surplus electronics junk is getting harder and harder to find in Silicon Valley<\/a>.\u00a0 Apex Electronics reminds me of RA Enterprises<\/a> circa 1995 – mountains of electronics equipment waiting for someone to take home and turn into something new.<\/p>\n

We didn’t get a chance to visit all of the places we wanted to thanks to LA’s signature traffic jams.\u00a0 Next time I’m back I hope to find some new surplus goldmines and report back.<\/p>\n

Suggestions?<\/h3>\n

Do you know of a place to find cool electronics junk in your area? <\/em><\/p>\n

I know that the number of stores like Apex and All Electronics are dwindling as eBay and Digi-key take over.<\/p>\n

Post in the comments and together we can try to keep these rare stores alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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