The tube
newsgroup recently has been talking about buying old scopes just
to harvest the tubes. When you get a good look at what good quality tubes
Is it just me, or is this as distasteful as scrapping classic computers
for gold? Old 'scopes have a perfectly good use already -- to display
waveforms
I have a Dumont 304a I tried to get $10 for without success. Pulling the
tubes will increase the value nicely. Its just like the 1130, if nobody is
willing to pay some premium over the value of the gold, then nobody wants
it very much.