I have bought over 50 tubes from Ebay sellers, overseas, over the last 3 years.
Mostly GS 35 some GS31, GI7b, and a few 4cx800 all Russian surplus. I never had
the problems you are experencing. I find that shipping never took longer then 7
or 10 days. I also find most all dealers were honest and sold top notch tubes.
I have purchased from the same people you have. If you tested as described, I
could not see a reason for failure from the test you performed. Maybe your
local post office is using them for shot put practice before you get them. I
was shocked one day when I had a chance to visit my local post office and to
see how they threw packages over 50 foot in there sorting process.
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry<mailto:larry@w7iuv.com>
To: AMPS<mailto:amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:44 AM
Subject: [Amps] Bad tubes from Ebay
Recent purchases of russian tubes from Ebay sellers have been pretty
disappointing with more than 50% DOA's. A summary of my experience is at:
http://w7iuv.com/badtubes.html<http://w7iuv.com/badtubes.html>
And yes, I did try to "condition" them first but it's hard to fix
mechanical shorts!
As for me, I will no longer buy tubes from non-US sources.
73, Larry
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Larry - W7IUV
DN07dg
http://w7iuv.com<http://w7iuv.com/>
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