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1. +1 on the need for a test rig.

   Little known fact is that many of the audiophile and professional audio companies bought up large swathes of surplus tubes years ago for their own uses. Much of what is on the market now are tubes which didn’t meet their own tests.

2. I have a SW tube radio carefully packed away. I’ve tried numerous times to get responses from repair shops “specializing” in antique radio repair. I’d like the radio tuned up and the power supply replaced. No responses. Buyer beware. We need people who know how to do this work in order to service a product being saved for SHTF situations. I’ve moved on to buying modern versions of SW radios that are tested and then stored properly for future use.

   1. I do antique radio repair as a hobby in Hot Springs. You can call KVRE, the radio station in Hot Springs, Village for contact information.
      Jim

3. Back in ’94/’95 I was part of a crew installing DEW/BMEWS replacement radar systems across the top of Canada. The last site we did was on Resolution Island.
   Behind the BMEWS antenna – which was about the size of a drive-in movie screen – was a building the size of a small hanger. Inside it were 20 double-sided eight foot-high racks the length of the building that were still full of replacement parts for all the electronic systems that had been in use at the site, probably easily over 100,000 tubes – not to mention the five radar transmitter klystron tubes in their original crates.(Those had probably originally cost about $500K each.) ‘Course the real kicker were the 10 100KW Caterpillar gensets in the power room that looked like they had never been spun up.
   Being as the island is ~150km off the Northwest Canadian coast it’s probably all still there.

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