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Re: New Sensor may be losing its tube factory

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12/17/2005 10:42 AM
Brad1	Re: New Sensor may be losing its tube factory "I wouldn't be suprised if they are planning on taking this guy out ..." Unfortunately, an unappealing possibility. May be harder to accomplish, though, if the world was watching. That's assuming anyone was interested enough to watch in the first place. Brad1

12/17/2005 10:57 AM
anonymous	further, if you read the article there is a suggetion that this is simply their first "offer" in the negotiation. Bluff and bluster seems to play a large part of russian business practice.

12/17/2005 11:32 AM

Only 3 tube factories in the world?

    From the article:

According to Matthews, only two other factories in the world are still mass-producing vacuum tubes.

    Maybe Reflektor is one of the top 3 factories in the world, but I believe that there are more than 2 major factories besides Reflektor:

EI in Yugoslavia, now Bosnia (?)

JJ/Tesla in Czechoslavokia, now the Slovak Republic

Chinese factory or factories

    Speaking of tubes, the new GT 12AX7M (for Mullard) tubes that everybody is raving about are supposedly from China! I think that they are great. I just bought some new production Mullard 12AT7's that say Made in Great Britain (I can't believe that they are making a lot of tubes in England because of the hazardous waste issues).

    Perhaps someone here can fill us in the details of other tube factories in the world. (Like isn't there a second factory in Russia that produces the Svetlana tubes?)

Steve Ahola

12/17/2005 6:56 PM
BD	I thought Mexico was very lax about pollution. I would hope he could move his stuff out and set up shop in southern mexico somewhere that there is a power plant nearby. Cheap labor and the stuff can get here by truck and rail. Just a thought, I wish I had the money to help bankroll the move. Maybe there is also ways to lessen the pollution.

12/17/2005 8:31 PM

Yeah, and then he could turn around and sell the tubes back to the russians at a ridiculously high price. Could setup a distributorship with those unsavory guys.

I think he would have a hard time getting the tooling out of the country. Those guys probably own the roads or shipping port. They could likely fabricate a literal or logical road block.

Have a co-worker that came from the Ukraine a number of years back. He was an electronic engineer there. Pretty sharp guy, and was helpful when I was building my 5E3 kit. Too much theory, at least for what I needed.

Anyway, while they certainly had transistors, they still had alot of equipment requiring tubes. Lots. That might partly explain why there is a tube factory there.

12/19/2005 10:00 AM
voa	So whats the problem? This shit happens all over the world all the time. Franks suggestion of asking the thief in command to bomb is typical of your small, biased and utterly disgusting american mind set.

12/19/2005 10:24 AM
Frank De Salvo	^^lol, why thanks! ~F

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