[Milsurplus] Belton Swapfest

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I used to work with a couple of guys who were guitar amp crazy.  
Specific tubes, by certain makers had "golden reputations".  For  
reasons I can not explain they seemed to be able to tell which tube  
was which once installed in an amp. I was quite happy to let them  
rummage through my old tube collection. They would swap me several  
new tubes for one old one. We both figured we were robbing the other  
guy blind. To me that makes it the perfect deal ....

Bob


On Oct 9, 2007, at 7:55 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> Yes.  Some years ago I tried to buy a BC-223-A and a BC-223-AX from  
> a ham in AZ.  He informed me I could have the carcasses after he  
> removed the tubes as the "audio afficionados" (AKA audiophools)  
> wanted them and he was selling them separately.  VT-62A (801A) and  
> VT-63 (43).  And BC-654-A's are most often found missing the  
> 307A's.  Don't know any other reason why this would be so than  
> audiophools.
>
> In a message dated 10/9/2007 5:57:31 PM Central Daylight Time,  
> kargo_cult at msn.com writes:
>> >Where do we all stand when it becomes obvious that parting out the
>> >guy's mil collection to sell the tubes to the audio guys makes the
>> >widow the most money? At least as important, what would the SK think
>> >about doing that?
>> >
>> >Do not think that's a hypothetical question. I was in a deal where
>> >that was *exactly* the question that came up.
>> >
>> >Bob
>>
>> I can't think of a situation matching that scenario UNLESS it  
>> deals with
>> 211 or 45 tubes. Are there others? -Hue
>
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