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RE:- Re: OLD Tubes/Where (fwd)
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Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 20:56:20 GMT
From: Robert Michaels <robert.michaels-at-online.sme-dot-org>
To: mod1-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: RE:- Re: OLD Tubes/Where
-> > Cost in U.S. $ of an 833-class tube is about $30 each in
-> > single quantities from Communist China and somewhat more
-> > from Eastern Bloc countries.
-> For future reference can you give a couple of suppliers -
-> over here (UK) they want L85 - well over $120.
-> Alan Sharp (UK)
It's hard for me to be as specific as I might like (especially
insofar as the Brits are concerned) but I'll try to give some
general (and not too obvious) guidelines:
1) -- (Euro & U.S.) - Look in the classified telephone
directory of any good-sized (100,000 population and up)
under "Electronic Parts and Supplies" or the like and
start making some phone calls.
2) -- (Euro & U.S) - Call the =consulate= of Communist China,
Czech Republic, etc. State that you want to purchase
electronic vacuum tubes from the subject country and
ask who is importing them into your nation.
=Consulates= exist for this purpose. They are to be
found in national capitals with branches in major
cities having interntional trade (New York, Chicago,
L.A., in the U. S.)
3) -- (U.S. Only) - There is a 4 or 5 volume trade directory
called the "Electronic Engineering Master" (but
everybody says EEM). It is published annually and
costs about $100-US. Check libraries and used book
sellers.
Vacuum tube mfgrs and importers are list here along
with purveyors of just about everything else electronic.
4) -- (Euro, Australia, U. S.) - Magazines catering to elec-
tronic hobbyists - =especially= to audiophiles -
occasionally carry ads from tube
importers/distributors
5) -- (U.S. only) - "Thomas Register of Manufacturers". It's
a 20-volume trade directory covering most all
manufactured goods of possible interest to OEM's. It's
to be found in most public libraries and ought to be in
the purchasing department of most businesses and
organizations.
6) -- (U.S., maybe elsewhere) --
My particular favorite is:
New Sensor Corporation
20 Cooper Square
New York, NY 10003
(212) 529 - 0466
(800) 633 - 5477
(212) 529 - 0486 FAX
This is an importer/distributor which handles both
receiving and power/transmitting tubes. I've always
dealt with them via my organizational affiliations.
How they would react to doing business with a private
individual is unknown.
7) -- (U.S., likely elsewhere) --
RF Parts
435 S Pacific St
San Marcos CA 92069
(619) 744 - 0700
744 - 1943 FAX
rfp-at-rfparts-dot-com
This is a small jobber expressingly catering to the
experimenter on a onesy-twosy basis. They have a lot
more than merely tubes. More expensive than buying
direct, but they will sell one tube (or one anything
else) without quibble.
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All of this said and done, I may have mis-spoken myself on the
price of 833's. I had forgotten that these were the really
=big= mothers. Apparently I was thinking of 813's which are
assuredly available at the price I mentioned.
Operating in a vacuum,
Robert Michaels - Detroit, USA