[Amps] Used tubes

[MIKE DURKIN]

The guy at QRO-PARTS was a huge putz to me, - he baned me after i asked a tecnical question.

Ill add i bought a GS9B from some one else .. but my question was about GS35B, so if I was even enclined to buy from him. He doesnt want my money anyways. So now some one else has it.

 

Mike

KC7NOA
 

> From: keepwal*******.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Used tubes
> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:09:26 -0600
> 
> Mike,
> 
> I don't think the socket insertion marks are conclusive. Suggestive but not 
> reliably conclusive.
> 
> To my thinking, a high tension socket will leave the marks and if the mfg or 
> some interim party put these in a test platform, you would see the marks.
> 
> I have bought tubes from QRO-PARTS a few times and have been pleased. But I 
> don't think I would buy tubes from an individual per se. My thinking is 
> this... An individual may have NOS unused tubes, on a one-off basis, due to 
> some horse trading he did at one point, but that would be the exception. The 
> more likely case is that the guy has used tubes he wants to sell to offset 
> the cost of the new ones.
> 
> On the other hand, if a guy (like QRO PARTS or RF PARTS or MFJ) has a 
> warehouse full of these tubes, then he really has no particular incentive to 
> want to sell you his pulls even if he somehow goes through them like popcorn 
> at the movie theater. A guy in this line would likely see peddling preused 
> tubes as NOS to be a good way to get a bad rep and a lot of headaches for 
> little return. Hence little incentive to bottom deal you.
> 
> Buyer beware, of course, but I would guess that most guys with a decent 
> track record of web sales would probably do the right thing.
> 
> 73/jeff/ac0c
> 
> 

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