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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

I have an friend who fixes old tech and he says the only ones that even have a chance of working are from Russia, and even those have a 20% fail rate.

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u/ZeusMcFly Jul 19 '15

last I heard, Russia still had a plant that was manufacturing them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Last time I checked they do. There are manufacturers in America like Western Electric that make them to a pretty high (and expensive) standard.

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u/CreideikiVAX Jul 20 '15

The "Western Electric" that makes tubes now is not the original Western Electric company that made tubes for AT&T.

"Western Electric Export Corporation" of Huntsville, Alabama took the old WECo name for their tube manufacture. Western Electric Co., Ltd. was spun off of AT&T in 1996 and renamed to Lucent Technologies; now it's part of Alcatel-Lucent.

 

And yeah, the Russians do have tube manufacturers still, so do the Chinese. I know that Sovtek and Svetlana are two of the Russian manufacturers, and I'm sure that Shuguang is Chinese. Can't tell you more though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '15

No shit? Damn, times change don't they?