[Amps] State of the Amp

[David G4FTC]

>From: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji at w8ji.com>
>To: <amps at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [Amps] State of the Amp
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:04:31 -0400
>
> >I wonder if the factory price of the GS-35b is also less
> >then that of a
> > 3-500Z.
> > No commercial amp factory would buy their GS-35b through
> > eBay or dark
> > channels without warranty I guess.
>
>No commercial manufacturer using common sense would use a
>tube that doesn't come from a current production source.
>It's asking for problems.
>
>Look at the mess Ten Tec got into with 4CX1600's.
>
>73 Tom
>


Besides I always thought that the established tube manufacturers gave a 
warrenty based upon the number of hours of antipated tube life.

i.e if the manufacturer gave a warrenty of say, 20,000 hours for a 
particular tube, and the tube failed after 10,000 hours, the user could get 
a 50% price reduction on a replacement tube.

Or perhaps this only applied to the really large tubes.

David G4FTC