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Tom
Don't let that smoke out!
Don't let that smoke out!
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Would that were true today!
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Nowadays the dump is called eBay.
That's where new production tube rejects go.
After they've been sold & returned of course.
That's where new production tube rejects go.
After they've been sold & returned of course.
Why Aye Man
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lmao!
Signatures have a 255 character limit that I could abuse, but I am not Cecil B. DeMille.
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Or the free JJs Watts was giving away for spending $100Bob S wrote:Nowadays the dump is called eBay.
That's where new production tube rejects go.
After they've been sold & returned of course.
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Considering QC then and now, it's a shame so many of those Sylvanias (and RCAs and GEs and Philips) went to the dump. I think I could work with a lot of them.
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And here is the Mullard, Blackburn site .... no rejects here
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This would now be considered a textbook example of a toxic waste dump.
This would now be considered a textbook example of a toxic waste dump.
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I'm surprised people aren't trying to dig it up like Capt. Kidd's treasure. If that ever happens look out for a shit tsunami on ebay. But, yes it's only rock'n'roll, I'd take a wheelbarrow of reasonably off spec ones.
I also what to get an old flattened cardboard box and sled down that tube hill!
I also what to get an old flattened cardboard box and sled down that tube hill!
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A couple thousand years in the future: "Rich tungsten deposit found in obscure location."darryl_h wrote:This would now be considered a textbook example of a toxic waste dump.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
down technical blind alleys . . .
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"Mostly thoriated".
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Mostly not, I would say, since only specialized tubes used thoriated tungsten. The vast majority of this pile would likely have been receiving tubes which used pure tungsten filaments with oxide coated cathodes.David Root wrote:"Mostly thoriated".
Boasting of your reject rate is an interesting idea...
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"A tube of such rare quality, NONE will be made. "martin manning wrote: Boasting of your reject rate is an interesting idea...
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Late 70's the top-line Grado phono cartridges, $750 at the time, were personally tested by Joe Grado. Those that didn't pass his audition weren't sold as "seconds." He put hammer to 'em right then and there. So he said when he gave a lecture/demonstation at the local stereo shop.martin manning wrote:Boasting of your reject rate is an interesting idea...
What percent passed or failed, who knows. But I have to admire Joe's commitment to perfection. FWIW Grado's cheap cartridges, only $20 at the time sounded pretty dam' good.
down technical blind alleys . . .
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Seriously though, did they really just plow them under as the photo suggests? Were we ever that stupid?
Oh yeah, the battery factories. We were that stupid.
I'm not much of an environmentalist, but manufacturing practices back then appall me.
Oh yeah, the battery factories. We were that stupid.
I'm not much of an environmentalist, but manufacturing practices back then appall me.