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The Question Is...

Posted by Gerry E. (A) on December 23, 2003 at 10:02:41

In Reply to: Found....... posted by Jimmy on December 22, 2003 at 17:48:06:

Has the lot been picked through? A few years ago, a friend invited a couple of us down to a warehouse full of tubes (he had become friends with the owner).

We met the owner on a cold Saturday morning. It was one of those really old warehouses in New Jersey, a block long. We took one of those ancient elevators up to the floor where the tubes were. We get off the elevator in the middle of the floor and there they were: thousands and thousands of tubes. On either side of the floor, stretching the whole block. Stacked on metal shelves reaching the high warehouse ceiling.

Sounds good, right? Well, we already knew that they had been picked through, but that there was still a few good ones left if we looked hard enough. We came up with things like assorted 6SN7s, Amperex E90Fs (Marantz 8B 6BH6 Sub), Oddball WE rectifiers (one of the visitors is a top DIY amp builder who could use them), etc.

We spoke with the owner and he told us that he had one Japanese customer who would come once a year and would ship back PALLETS of tubes to Japan, including Mullard EL34s. There were so many tubes that the owner charged him by the pallet, not by the type! Those must have been the days.

Gerry

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