gofar99 Messages: 1949 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
Illuminati (5th Degree)
Hi, Same here, plus Antique Electronic Supply (CE Dist for folks with a wholesale license) for tubes and such. Jameco for power supplies and Marlin Jones for power supplies and odd things.
Wayne Parham Messages: 18786 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
Definitely. I like to get grille cloth for old tube radios I'm restoring at Antique Audio Supply. I prefer to get tubes from Aki at BOIAudioworks. He's someone I'd consider to be a friend. I don't trust some of the online tube dealers - Some of those guys out there will box up any old junk find tube as NOS. But Aki at BOIAudioworks only sells genuine new tubes, and he stands by them.
Wayne Parham Messages: 18786 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
I know who you're talking about. Bought a very expensive "NOS" tube from them once, and it came in almost completely dead. It worked, but barely. Obviously had been used a full long life before it found it's way into that online tube store NOS box. I was able to get a replacement from them, but I still knew they were trying to pull a fast one labeling a used tube as NOS. I'm sure all their NOS tubes are actually junk pulls.
Antique Audio Supply also sells used tubes, but they label them as such. I usually prefer to buy new tubes but sometimes, when repairing an old radio, I need a tube and my only options are used. Most times, they're fine but I've bought a couple used tubes that were weak. Antique Audio replaced them for me. Being labeled as used tubes, this is quite acceptable to me.
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