[AMPS] 3-500Z - Where to buy them?

[Alan Gray]

<bold><color><param>0000,0000,8080</param><bigger>US-made 3-500Z and
4-400A/C tubes: Triton Services of Easton, Pennsylvania--which acquired
the EIMAC Glass Tube Division (and the original equipment and technology)
a couple of years ago--now is producing 3-500Z and 4-400A/C tubes to the
original EIMAC specs.=20


These are available exclusively through D&C Electronics, 3089 Deltona
Blvd, Spring Hill, FL 34606; tel 800-881-2374; 352-688-2374; fax
352-683-9595;


e-mail tube@gate.net; http://www.dandcelectronics.com. (D&C also can
supply 811A, 572B and other tubes, made in China and Russia.)


Alan, W3BV

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At 12:52 PM 12/18/98 -0800, Radiodan W7RF wrote:

>

>Do you have any contact info on this new company and if they will make
other

>tubes as well?

>

>Certainly I would hope we could live with ugly in favor of=20
performance.

>

>A strong signal is beautiful!

>

>73, Dan Magro W7RF, (member SCDXC, SCCC)

>Manufacturers Rep & Distributor for HENRY Amplifiers.

>www.radiodan.com <<http://www.radiodan.com> =A0=A0=A0 RFpower@radiodan.com

><<mailto:RFpower@radiodan.com> A trip to our web site is worth the
click!

>

>

>

>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: owner-amps@contesting.com [mailto:owner-amps@contesting.com]On

>> Behalf Of Rich Measures

>> Sent: Friday, December 18, 1998 11:34 AM

>> To: amps@contesting.com

>> Subject: Re: [AMPS] 3-500Z - Where to buy them?

>>

>>

>>

>> Bob - K8NY wrote -

>> >Just received my used SB221 with one destroyed Eimac 3-550Z (damaged
in

>> >shipping). Looking for the best place to buy one (or two?)? Any=20
help

>> >would be appreciated. (Does not have to be Eimac)........

>> >

>> =80  RF Parts reportedly sells a Mu=3D130 3-500Z  which is a close match
for

>> an Eimac .

>> -   Last week, I received a report that the company which bought the

>> rights to Eimac's glass tubes, may be gearing up to produce the
3-500Z.

>> However, a sample reportedly failed within a month due to the same

>> anode-cooler-spotweld problem that Eimac had at its Salt Lake City
plant:

>>  . Namely, the anode-cooler broke loose and shorted against the

>> (grounded) grid because the spotwelds tended to break..  .  .  .   As
I

>> learned in Sheetmetal 101, strong spotwelds are not pretty.    To get
a

>> stong spotweld, it takes enough kA of current to Thoroughly melt the

>> metal,  which necessarily means that strong spotwelds need to be

>> moderatedly ugly.

>>

>>

>> Rich...

>>

>> R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures

>>

>>

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