[Premium-Rx] End of production of an icon..

[Michael O'Beirne]

Dear Jon

I echo your frustration.  Take valves (old things that glow in the dark when 
power is applied!!).  I have no problem in sourcing them, but try many 
semiconductors and it's a dead loss.  My local Maplin electronics store in 
London has had no common-or-garden TIP33 for some time.  I need one to 
replace the pass transistor in the PSU of my Drake R7.

As for the SL600 and SL1600 series of ICs that live inside countless 
receivers and transceivers.........  Not a hope.

73s
Michael
G8MOB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon-FL" <jon9fl9swl at bellsouth.net>
To: <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] End of production of an icon..


> NLA parts.......
>
> I still find it amazing that
> its possible to find parts
> for a 1925 Atwater-Kent radio
> but not for a 1980 National-Panasonic radio.
>
>
> I used to run into this problem all the time when I ran
> a consumer elex repair business.
>
> Also a major problem was getting information out of many
> manufacturers. Some flatly refused to sell schematics.
>
> Once a customer brung in a Sylvania portable TV set that was ~15 months 
> old.
> When talking to Philips Consumer Elec Co. 'sorry. we dont have any parts 
> for that model'.
>
> It was a plastic bracket with spindle for mechanical UHF tuner dial.
> I ended up fabricateing a replacement myself out of aluminum.