As an additional point to support, based on the legal department for my
previous employer, there is no statute or law in the US which requires a
company to supply support or parts past the original warranty period.
Bob, K4TAX
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> On Aug 8, 2018, at 10:58 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX <rmcgraw@blomand.net> wrote:
>
> In many cases, the original supplier of the parts has discontinued specific
> items. The new ownership has little to nothing to do with this fact. Some
> parts were custom made for Tentec while some were made in their own tool and
> die shop or injection molding facility. Those of course no longer exist.
> Unless someone builds after market items, many parts for older radios {those
> 10 + years} simply won't be available.
>
> This also is the same for many other brands as well. I've encountered this
> fact with my attempted repair of Kenwood, ICOM and Yaesu products and is one
> of the reasons I've stopped repairing radios. No parts available in many
> cases. In other instances, the supplier has a minimum of 100 piece order.
> If I have to order 100 pieces just to get one or two, this makes the repair
> very expensive. Certainly is not profitable for me.
>
> Folks, we must realize that anything older than the Omni VII {now 10+ years
> old}, Eagle {now 8+ years old} and Argonaut VI {now 6+ years old} are, in
> many instances, in trouble with regard to parts. With my former company,
> having been in charge of repair parts for products that are no longer in
> production, we did forecast and purchase inventory to support products for 7
> years. In most cases the supplier or vendor informed us that this was the
> last production run on these items. This is inventory that takes space on
> the shelves, and must be paid for in advance. Hence we have to spend dollars
> for parts that may set on the shelf for 7+ years. The accountants do not
> like this and the facility manager may say "why do we need to use this space
> for obsolete parts"? And in many instances our "forecast" was not
> sufficiently accurate and we simply ran out of parts before expected. In
> some cases we were forced to limit purchase quantities to prevent hoarding.
>
> With Tentec and other brands, just be thankful you can get any service work
> done and parts being available. Yea yea yea I know you're saying your 30
> year old radio still works and I can get it repaired. In general that is
> correct.........until one of those unique parts fail. The Orion series
> has several unique parts and many to most of the PC board assemblies are no
> long available. If either fails, look for a "parts only radio" and hope
> the part is good that you need.
>
> This is no different than looking for a brake controller for anti-lock brakes
> from a junker at the auto junk yard. Oh, the Dealer has them for $650.
> That's 1/2 the value of the vehicle. Radios are much the same way.
>
>
> 73
>
> Bob, K4TAX
>
>
>> On 8/8/2018 10:18 AM, David J. Ross wrote:
>> Sorry to hear that. I bought the parts for my Paragon just last Nov. I had
>> heard that service parts were drying up under the new ownership.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TenTec <tentec-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of km4bsham via TenTec
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 11:10 AM
>> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
>> Cc: km4bsham <km4bsham@aol.com>
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion VFO Knobs
>>
>> Naturally "out of stock, try back at a later date ". Thanks
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>> -------- Original message --------From: "David J. Ross" <rossdj@verizon.net>
>> Date: 8/7/18 6:32 PM (GMT-05:00) To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
>> <tentec@contesting.com> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion VFO Knobs I purchased
>> one directly from TenTec but there was a $25 minimum order. I needed the
>> plastic panel end ears so the ring was a price padder.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: TenTec <tentec-bounces@contesting.com> On Behalf Of Dave Beghtel via
>> TenTec
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 6:04 PM
>> To: TenTec@contesting.com
>> Cc: km4bsham@aol.com
>> Subject: [TenTec] Orion VFO Knobs
>>
>>
>> Is there any source for the newer vfo knobs with the solid rubber ring?
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