27 Mar
2005
27 Mar
'05
6:17 p.m.
I have nearly 1000 radio and TV (and some exotic) tubes (valves to you
Brits) that I'd dearly love to peddle to someone. Problem is, they're not
in boxes, most of them, and testing them would take years, even though I
have the gear to do so. Unboxed (=unknown condition) tubes are apparently
worth very little.
At 12:30 AM 3/27/2005 -0700, you wrote:
Just thought I'd let the listees know that while
visiting my local parts
and equipment store today (which carries a large amount of discontinued
and surplus items of all types), I noticed there was a whole aisle of
electronic vacuum tubes there. Guess it's been there for quite a while, I
just hadn't noticed it before. I looked at several of the tubes and saw
that the addresses listed on the boxes contained no ZIP codes, so I figure
that a good part if not all of these tubes are vintage items from back in
the '50s or '60s. I have no idea what prices they have on these items as
most of the stuff is unmarked, but I know from buying other items there,
their prices are usually pretty reasonable. If anyone has any needs of
vintage vacuum tubes, contact me off list and I be glad to check on them
for you. I saw RCA, GE, and Sylvania there to mention a few and I believe
most were for TVs and Radios, but who knows what else I may find
there. I'm not an electronics person so I don't know what distinguishes
one tube type from another. Let me know if I can be of help to anyone out
there.
Bill
bmachacek at pcisys.net
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