On Thu, 28 May 1998 21:57:45 -0500 (CDT) Gary Schwartz
<garyk9gs@solaria.sol.net> writes:
>On Thu, 28 May 1998, W9JA Paul Hellenberg wrote:
>
>>
>> I have been told by more than one person that 8877s are used in some
>type
>> of hospital equitment (CAT or MRI) and that these are changed out
>from time
>> to time based on number of hours used. Does anyone know anymore
>about this.
>> For example what type of hospital equipment, are the tubes still
>worth
>> using after pulled, etc? Please respond to me directly.
>>
>> Bill, W5VX
>> bparry@esconett.net
>>
>
>I know that the 8877 was used in GE MRI's in the past. This was about
>5
>years ago. In fact, I had heard that GE was using matched tubes from
>Eimac. Every once in a while, they uncovered a defective tube, bad
>match
>ect. GE used to simply disp[ose of the other tube, often brand new
>rather
>than try to match the odd ones up.
>
>When I looked into it, the problem was getting on the list to be the
>official scrap vendor for GE. I never followed it any farther than
>that.
>
>There must be some hams that work at the GE plant in Wisconsin where
>they
>manufacture the MRI's......anyone know one???
I bought several hundred of them....they were NOT mismatched, defective,
etc....get that rumour out of your head pronto.
They were surplused because of date codes....plain and simple. Each tube
came with a full computer print-out. GE overbought and equipment sales
lagged so they could not use older code tubes.
Surplus Bandits of NE bought most of them and was selling for $450-500
each a few years back. I sold most of mine for $250 each so you can
imagine the profit at "Bandits".
Yes, a few GE defects do reach hams but company policy is to destroy
them.
73 Carl KM1H
>
>73,
>Gary K9GS
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