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Tube takeover

For all you bottleheads, here's some very bad news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/business/worldbusiness/16cheat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Regardless of your opinion of the Sovtek brand, this is sure to drive up the price of tubes in general. That's a lot of production going offline...
armstrod

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tbg
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There are no longer the American women with the knowledge of how to make them, as evidenced by Westrex.

Get your NOS while you can; and if you care about your grandkids, lay in a supply for them.
tbg
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If you have compared Chinese and nos American tubes, you would be unhappy about the prospects. I do not think much of Russian made tubes either, however. Maybe the mafia will make better tubes.
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