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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
bd139:
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--- Quote from: bd139 on June 28, 2022, 09:37:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on June 28, 2022, 09:14:56 pm ---800 tubes coming ?! :scared:
Where do you even find lots like that ?! :-//
Specialized websites clearing stuff out ?!
I wish I could find stuff like that !
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I wish it was that easy. This is a dying ex EE relative. The guy has lots of ancient stuff but it has been stored in a damp garage with damaged roof for the best part of 25 years so it's nearly all a write off and will be loaded into a skip. The tubes and some of the components were stored in the (heated) outbuilding fortunately because the garage was full. Going to be a shitty long weekend dealing with it so I'm not exactly thrilled at the idea.
I've been told I can do what I want with it so I'm going to lift the high value tubes and sell individually and the rest go in lots on ebay.
I'll enumerate and heater test (I'm not buying a tube tester) all of them so if anyone needs any for genuine purposes i.e. loading up test gear and not building guitar amps I'll distribute them for postage cost accordingly.
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Fuck....no envy for you on this one only the sadness I know that will haunt you for every minute of it. :(
Though he might turn in his grave at you parting out all the tubes he should also smile that you're gunna cash in on all the hollow glass worshippers. >:D
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Oh no he's a complete fucking asshole of a human and always has been. I'm just doing it for his daughter (my father's third ex-wife).
Oh he's also a ham. 80m and 2m health complaint, racist, sexist sorta guy. Real nice company. Fortunately his antenna collapsed in the storms about 3 years ago :-DD
mnementh:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 28, 2022, 09:41:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 28, 2022, 09:32:55 pm ---800 tubes of Redhead Repellent. Personally, I think he underbought...
mnem
"...anybody not wearing 2 million sunblock is going to have a very bad day...!" ~Sarah Connor
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A professional never repels. Just mix some nixie tubes in there and hook a steampunk redhead floozie.
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Oh, right I forgot... you're not a pervert, you're a provert... you get paid to be this way. :-DD
mnem
I'm a prevert... I was this way before it was cool. >:D
bd139:
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 28, 2022, 09:44:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 28, 2022, 08:52:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on June 28, 2022, 08:50:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 28, 2022, 08:39:00 pm ---I wouldn't throw them out if I had them. The throwing out was accidental but refreshing. I had about 10,000 transistors at one point but sold most of them on ebay and turned them into curry and then into poop :-DD
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10,000 ?! :wtf: :scared:
Oh I think if I had THAT many, even I, would definitely want to reduce the amount ! :-DD
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Yeah I bought some huge lots on ebay and some off gumtree and had a crate of shit I lifted from someone who died in the 90s.
I've got a huge ingress of tubes (at leas 800) coming soon which should be interesting :scared:
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So... lemme get this right... you pass on a bench PSU you could use and one of the smallest, lightest MegaZoom scopes made (both of which would fit in one banker's box)... while screaming "No room! I'm Moving! The transportation monster is gonna jump up my arse and eat me from the inside out!!!"
But you say "Hells yeah!" on 800 doses of hollow state suppositories you know you're not going to be able to haul in less than 2 wheelbarrows?
Not that I'm judging... hell, no; this is TEAnonymous after all. :-DD
mnem
I just wanted to make sure I have the details straight for the screenplay... >:D
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It's more that I'm unsure of where I'm going to be in the next few days as I'm in and out of the city for work and in and checking out lettings etc. And every fucking courier here leaves stuff on the doorstep and recently it has been going missing double-quick. His stuff can stay there until I'm ready to deal with it or decide I don't want to :-DD
mnementh:
So your carriers don't offer Hold At Location delivery? Damn... chalk one up for FEDEX & UPS...
mnem
:popcorn:
Vince:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 28, 2022, 09:37:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on June 28, 2022, 09:14:56 pm ---800 tubes coming ?! :scared:
Where do you even find lots like that ?! :-//
Specialized websites clearing stuff out ?!
I wish I could find stuff like that !
--- End quote ---
I wish it was that easy. This is a dying ex EE relative. The guy has lots of ancient stuff but it has been stored in a damp garage with damaged roof for the best part of 25 years so it's nearly all a write off and will be loaded into a skip. The tubes and some of the components were stored in the (heated) outbuilding fortunately because the garage was full. Going to be a shitty long weekend dealing with it so I'm not exactly thrilled at the idea.
I've been told I can do what I want with it so I'm going to lift the high value tubes and sell individually and the rest go in lots on ebay.
I'll enumerate and heater test (I'm not buying a tube tester) all of them so if anyone needs any for genuine purposes i.e. loading up test gear and not building guitar amps I'll distribute them for postage cost accordingly.
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OH !!!
BIG misunderstanding here it looks like :-DD!
When you said "800 tubes", I assumed you meant 800 PLASTIC tubes filled with tons of integrated circuits , not VACUUM tubes ! :palm:
Yeah I have enough tubes here... they only I could benefit having some stock of, would be the 6AU6 and 6DJ8 because these two alone constitute 50% of the tubes in my Tek scopes, and tehy like to fail.
They are often used in the amplifiers and when gets tired it creates offset problems on the screen.
So yeah, good luck sorting and testing all these tubes. Hopefully some are worth some money and it will pay for all the time and effort you will put into them... and maybe some more, so you can then invest it in some more TE of course ! >:D
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