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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 09-25-2001 09:31 AM

At this web site:http://www.surplussales.com/Equipment/ballantyne.html

There is some motion picture stuff listed including brand new in the box Ballantyne Tube Amplifiers!
MArk @ GTS

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Don Sneed
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From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 09-25-2001 04:18 PM

Those Ballantyne Tube amps, was a darn good amp, never had that much problem with, & they were easly to repair, they didn't have any tone control, but the low end was smooth, they didn't need it....you can't beat a tube amp for sound.....even Fender guitars amps are still using tubes for bass guitars.....

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Rick Long
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From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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posted 09-25-2001 06:51 PM

Fascinating site. Thanks Mark. Kinda makes me wanna clean out my basement so I got room for more junk.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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posted 09-26-2001 01:54 AM

Hey Rick, you guys have Toronto Science And Surplus! Thats even better. Been there...Gord is the one that took me there....I blame him for that one, cost me a bundle to get out of the place.
Mark@ GTS

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Rick Long
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From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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posted 09-26-2001 06:49 PM

Yeah it's pretty good. That's why my wife only lets me go near the place with 50 bucks in my pocket and NO credit cards!

I think it's a throwback to the old days in the small Ontario town I lived in during the 60's. There were no electronic outlets nearby. I used to pour through the pages of the Allied-Radio Shack and Laffyette catalogs wishing I could get all the parts I needed for the latest construction article in Popular Electronics.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
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posted 09-27-2001 10:14 AM

Rick,
Here in Salt Lake City we have a couple of really interesting places. One place, Ra-Elco, is a combination of new and surplus, with the new thrown in here and there so its hard to tell whats new or whats surplus. Somehow the guys that run the place know how to tell. As a good example you can get any value 1/4 watt RN60 or better 1% precision resistor for less tnhan a dime each.
The second place, Salt Lake Instrument, has. I'd say at least 50,000 vacuum tubes in there. Run by an old WW-2 vet that is approaching 90 years old. I found two Image dissector tubes(probably the rarest TV pickup tube in existance) and a number of Image Orthicons and Flouroscope tubes there. Plus two original Farnsworth 1P25 night vision tubes from the 40's which were NOS.
Everything else here is same ole as in any other city, typically Newark, and others.
Mark @ GTS

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Rick Long
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From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 10-02-2001 07:56 PM

Got to thinking back to those days when I used to do amatuer t.v. repair to pay for cigarettes back in my high-school days. There was an add in Popular Electronics for vacuum tubes. (No easier way to tell if a tube is at fault than substitution).

Anyways this add (from Cornell Electronics, if I recall correctly throught the cobwebs of time) bragged "each tube is new or used and is so marked".

Nothing to lose here, I thought. Even if over two-thirds the stock was used tubes, the price was good enough (33 cents each, I think) that I would be able to sub a new tube for diagnosis. All I had to do is look at the tube for a "new" or "used" marking.

With Canadian customs on electronics imports what it was in those days, these tubes weren't such a great bargain after all.

The worst part though, was (and, I gotta admit, the supplier did keep his word), EVERY tube bore the legend "NEW OR USED". There was no way to tell which was which.

Oh well, live and learn.

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