"Meat Plow" wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:38:12 +0000, Arfa Daily wrote:


"Meat Plow" wrote in message
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:34:44 +0000, Michael Black wrote:

Meat Plow ) writes:
Western Electric 417a NOS
Any use in anything today like an audio amp?
Looked on one site and they were going for over 100 bucks
each NOS.

I have a dozen or so NOS, maybe Ebay them eh?

If you asked where this belongs, sci.electronics.components, you'd
be getting an answer.


I know some tube heads here that's why I asked. And besides, I don't
know
every sci.electronics.* group in the hierarchy.


It's amazing how you can post useful and helpful stuff on a group for
years,
and be a regular poster for anyone who cares to take the time to look at
exactly who the post is from, and then get jumped on by the group stasi
for
making a post aimed at others that you know will be on there, but that
*they* consider to be slightly off topic ...


Yeh Mike has appointed himself as the group nanny I suppose. This group
has a very wide range of known and lurking subscribers so an electronic
item like a tube wasn't that far off topic.

And, of course, the primary name of the group is "electronics", "repair"
being a secondary qualifier. As far as I'm concerned, anything of an
electronics nature, is fair game, provided that it is not too far off topic.
As you say, there is a very large range of expertise and interest on this
group, and it is a particularly active one, which is why I like it so much.
The tubes in question just might have had some repair interest for someone
on the group, and it's not as if it was some unknown person who was making
the post.

Arfa