PING: McShane. The continuing JJ story. - Poindexter - Tubes Asylum

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PING: McShane. The continuing JJ story.

I just tubed up a breadboard for test, and was going to use the JJ E34Ls instead of =C= beauties. The pins on these are the right size (I miced them and reported back weeks ago), but OMG, they have no taper on the ends at all; in fact, they are beyond square, having a slight 'mushroom' of solder on the cutoff burr.
They are impossible to feed into the socket keepers; there's no way to get all 8 pins perfectly lined up so that they are exactly centered in the little clampies (which move around a bit as well). I finally gave up, and used one of the quads of SEDs. I hope I didn't do something stupid with the B+.
Are you able to talk to these guys? Will they listen to you? I mean, we know that they aren't trying to make defective unusable tubes. Why do they keep doing this dumb stuff? They got to know they're digging themselves a hole.
Auwe,
Poinz

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Topic - PING: McShane. The continuing JJ story. - Poindexter 16:38:16 07/26/06 (8)

Re: PING: McShane. The continuing JJ story. - Nuke Em 03:43:38 07/28/06 (1)

Re: PING: McShane. The continuing JJ story. - Jim McShane 06:48:42 07/28/06 (0)

Poinz, ya looking for Winged =C= era original Svetlana EL-34's? - Ivan303 18:42:10 07/27/06 (1)

Maybe. - Poindexter 19:40:19 07/27/06 (0)

Re: PING: McShane. The continuing JJ story. - MIchael Samra 21:42:14 07/26/06 (0)

Re: PING: McShane. The continuing JJ story. - Jim McShane 19:09:10 07/26/06 (2)

Re: PING: McShane. The continuing JJ story. - Mark Cashman 11:36:59 07/27/06 (1)

Re: PING: McShane. The continuing JJ story. - Jim McShane 07:06:27 07/28/06 (0)

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