Photos: sweet old science junque from SoCal scrapyard


Dave "eecue" Bullock tells BoingBoing,

APEX Electronics is an amazing salvage yard in Sun Valley, and Dorkbot SoCal members took a trip there this weekend. I wrote about it and took a bunch of HDR photographs of the lucious piles of hot sexy scuttled scientific equipment. It reminds me of a similar place called The Black Hole, where I worked in high school.

Link. Wow, nice shots, Dave!

Reader comment: cavalaxis says,

APEX is truly a wonderland of junque. But there's always a catch, isn't there? Be aware that there are (typically large) items in their inventory that are only for rent, not for sale. This is especially vexing because these items are not marked as "For Rental Only" and indeed, the saleability of certain items seems to vary from sales clerk to sales clerk. i.e. If they think you love it too much, they'll only let you rent it. I always ask for a sales price with the expectation of hearing "Sorry, that's not for sale. But you can rent it…"

The vagaries of living in LA, I suppose.