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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:56:32 -0400
Subject: [R-390] Tubes
There have been "big gulp" sales of R-390A tubes on eBay for quite a while
now. I suspect that a number of us have more than a couple of spare tubes.
What do people need? Is there enough interest for somebody to start doing
tube sets again, or do one type at a time sales make sense? I'm *not* trying to
get in the tube business, just to see if there's a reasonable way to get around
the shipping costs.
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:11:05 -0400
Subject: Re: [R-390] Tubes
Many of the "big gulps" are JAN-surplus tubes and are either the result of:
1: A new liquidation of military surplus.
2: The buyer of a previous liquidation of mil surplus tubes realizes
that they've been sitting on the lot for a decade now (the 90's
military liquidations were incredible - guys would come to the
hamfests with truckfulls of tubes and get ignored because of
everybody wanting to sell their latest 386-clone PC) and they
aren't selling.
I do note that AES seems to have hiked their prices in the past
month (possibly correlated with the release of their 2007 catalog).
> I'm *not* trying to get in the tube business
I suspect the tube business requires a certain kind of mindset that is not
common among most business people. When the stock of tubes has been
sitting around for decades without buyers, why should anyone think they can
turn a buck when the previous owners didn't either? There may be appreciating
prices for some subset of audiophile tubes but I don't see it rubbing off on the
radio tubes. I'm interested from a user/collector point of view at what brands
and constructions of radio tubes are available and occasionally have some
deep epiphany as a result, (like, "wow, some 6CH8's are really chirpy in this
Heathkit HG-10 VFO and others aren't, boy am I glad I've got bunches of these
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