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    The look we are trying to achieve this year is kind of a Van Helsing meets Frankenstein. No, that is not the theme, but it will give you a good idea of the look we are going for. What I am looking for is ideas on where to seek out some props and and other eye candy. Old lab supplies -- beakers, microscopes, etc. Electrical supplies -- old style transformers, panels, gages, things like that.

    Outside of antique stores, anyone have ideas on where to look for these kinds of things?

    Thanks,

    Dave
    Lords of Chaos, LLC
    House of Chaos Haunted Attraction

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    There's always ebay and...

    American Science and Surplus - We're lucky to have their store in Milwaukee but they have a website/online store:

    http://www.sciplus.com/
    (click under lab supplies and equipment)

    Their stuff is new, so you'd have to "antique" it yourself by using tea and brown paint/drybrushing to make the stuff look old - but it's pretty affordable.

    Their website is fun to look around on - LOTS of weird stuff.
    Blood & Kisses,

    ~ Nicole

    Production Team Member
    The White Star Farm
    "Hey Baby, this blood's for you."

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    • #3
      Dumpster-diving, owning a truck and being available when things get put out to the curb, along with doing this for usually several years and there you have it!
      We still have junk auctions around here too.
      A few years ago at one such auction an old coin was sold for $7,000!
      A week later it was sold again somewhere on the east coast for $130,000!
      Only a very few people at that local auction knew what it was really worth.
      hauntedravensgrin.com

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      • #4
        Don't forget to join your local "Freecycle" group through Yahoo groups and look around on http://www.craigslist.org under a location near you. They have free stuff and you may want to post an ad for what you're looking for, as well.

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        • #5
          EBAY! You could probably even find a half eaten sub sandwich Hugh Jackman ate on the set of Van Helsing and thru away. People sell anything on there.
          Damon
          Damon Carson

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          • #6
            Our Company will sell a resin caste set of lab dials and switches this year at Transworld, Booth 6530. Edge Designs
            Listen to them, Children of the night. Oh what music they make.

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            • #7
              Michaels has a lot of small bottles of different designs right now.

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              • #8
                Flea markets
                Giving People The Chills Since 2005

                http://www.warehouse31.com

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                • #9
                  Thanks guys. I appreciate the ideas. Most of them are ones that I have been watching already. Craigslist and Ebay have had some results. Freecycle is one that I was not familiar with. I will check that out.

                  I have heard that in many major cities there are places that sell stuff pulled out of houses and such during remodeling, as well as excess building supplies from contractors. Does anyone have any idea what I am talking about? How to find them?

                  Anyway, any and all further ideas appreciated.

                  Dave
                  Lords of Chaos, LLC
                  House of Chaos Haunted Attraction

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Duke of Darkness
                    I have heard that in many major cities there are places that sell stuff pulled out of houses and such during remodeling, as well as excess building supplies from contractors. Does anyone have any idea what I am talking about? How to find them?

                    Dave
                    Here in California, they call it CALMAX (California Material Exchange). However, I'm not sure what it would be called where you are located. The link to California's is below so it will give you an idea where to look in your state. It's a government office.

                    http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/CalMAX/

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                    • #11
                      Hey Dave

                      try http://www.pdxrestore.org its in Portland Or

                      For everyone else google

                      Habitat for Humanity RE-Store
                      and your city

                      Good place for used and surplus building supply's
                      Gary
                      Midnight Evil Productions
                      www.MidnightEvil.com
                      Owner/Operator of www.CoffinCreek.com/
                      www.Twitter.com/CoffinCreek

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                      • #12
                        Thanks Gary! That is exactly what I was looking for. I will try to go check them out in the next few days.

                        Dave
                        Lords of Chaos, LLC
                        House of Chaos Haunted Attraction

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                        • #13
                          I'm a big fan of our local flea market. They've always got tons of different vendors and they are generally willing to bargain with you just to get rid of the stuff.

                          I recommend freecycle, as well. It's free if you pick it up!
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                          www.myspace.com/mindseizurehauntedhouse

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                          • #14
                            We were fortunate enough to score a bunch of lab glass from our local high school. Many times at the end of a school year they rotate in new supplies and you can pick up the nicely aged ones. Mike
                            Mike Bizub

                            Ghouls Gulch www.GHOULSGULCH.com

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                            • #15
                              My neighbor across the parking lot to the east is the vet clinic. One time their sterilizer went nuts and melted some plastic test tubes into a half puddle. They presented this to me, I put it on a shelf here as a display, it looked pretty neat.
                              The post-modern, primordal goo puddle, created by "Science" of course.
                              Test tubes half gone, sticking out of the puddle at all odd angles.
                              hauntedravensgrin.com

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