Regarding Taylor brand, I purchased a year or so ago one Taylor 813
for a friend's linear and it was labeled as Made in China clearly.
Dealer was RF Parts and I was aware of tube's origin.
If your newly acquired 572s have a USA made label (but made in
China) I think the dealer could be sued in some way, could be?. Those
are fake USA tubes.
Last, some years ago my radio master was repairing a Drake TR4 which
needed new finals, three 6JB6 tubes; we had the chance of a friend
temporarily living in USA to buy them at a radio shack store. They came
in closed boxes but, those were 17JB6 tubes. They were marked 6JB6 in
the glass, ? how?, but coarsely grinding the glass over the 17 and
writing over a 6.
Best regards
Guillermo - LU8EYW.
Osten B Magnusson escribi?::
>STAY AWAY FROM RICHARDSON ELECTRONICS, ENGLAND www.rell.com
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>572B's are sold here in Europe by different dealers, the tubes are distributed
>by Richardson Electronics in England, and they claim that it's Cetron tubes
>manufactured for National. Sorry to tell, but it isn't the truth - it's newly
>produced Chinese tubes re-badged by Richardsons as National and also have
>''Made in USA'' printed on them. So be careful, before buying. I have been
>offered, not by Richardsons, but by the distributor to get a full refund if
>sending the tubes back. Richardsons does not even answer e-mails...
>
>This is part of an e-mail from a serious distributor in England:
>
> >>Hello Osten,
> >>Taylor is a brand name for RF parts but these can be re-badged any type!
> >>We have National 572B which are badged by Richardsons which is the main
> >>outlet for Eimac, but need not be Eimac !
>
>There are original Cetron NOS 572B's available here in Europe, have a look at
> www.clhi-fi.it It's in Italian, but click on ''Surplus'' and than
>''avanti'' to go to page four. There are no prices on the WEB, but in an
>e-mail they asked 500 ''euros'' for a matched pair, plus postage. That's
>totally USD 645 for a matched pair!!! I know that there are also NOS Cetron
>572B's available in USA, but unfortunately we have to pay more postage,
>customs, 25 percent VAT etc. so here we always try to buy from a European
>Community country, this was no customs and other extra charges to pay.
>
>Probably time to get all ''glass tubes'' amplifiers marked ''junk'' and in the
>future only get amplifiers with ceramic tubes!
>
>73 de Osten SM5DQC e-mail: sm5dqc@algonet.se
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