Shipping Fail

[Drifter]

Thanks Fedex. Tube destroyed. Now it’s a bench fixture.

 

[543_Dallas]

Been there and it sucks. UPS brought me a broken 3-500z from RF Parts. I had to be really persistent to get it replaced.

 

[Drifter]

 

[w9cll]

That blows! Seriously that thing is actually an amp? It looks like a cartoon drawing..

 

[sunbulls]

I hope Fedex will pay for that tube without a hassle. If not, you could always make a LED modulation indicator or a table lamp out of it. Using a glass cutter, the plate cap on top is your pivot point needed to score a perfect circle. The circle needs to be large enough to remove all the guts. If you managed not to shatter the glass, the top can be glued back on afterwards. Use your imagination or any number to decorative LED configurations that are sold. Solder the LED leads to a couple of pins on the bottom. Drill holes in a nice thick piece of wood for the pins to fit into and to channel a pair of wires away from the base.

 

[TheRealPorkchop]

That’s a shame, I’m not hip to tubes but it looks pretty damn cool.

Also I like Sunbulls idea, that would probably look really cool, way cool.

It reminds me of this guy, haha :

And that made me sad, they broke GUNTER.

 

[Slowmover]

I hope Fedex will pay for that tube without a hassle. If not, you could always make a LED modulation indicator or a table lamp out of it. Using a glass cutter, the plate cap on top is your pivot point needed to score a perfect circle. The circle needs to be large enough to remove all the guts. If you managed not to shatter the glass, the top can be glued back on afterwards. Use your imagination or any number to decorative LED configurations that are sold. Solder the LED leads to a couple of pins on the bottom. Drill holes in a nice thick piece of wood for the pins to fit into and to channel a pair of wires away from the base.

That’s one sweet set of suggestions!

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[Slowmover]

That’s a shame, I’m not hip to tubes but it looks pretty damn cool.

Also I like Sunbulls idea, that would probably look really cool, way cool.

It reminds me of this guy, haha :

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And that made me sad, they broke GUNTER.

Tubes are a form of romance.

Audiophile ne plus ultra.

Advertising copy that writes itself plus an image re-creating dawn:
Vacuum tubes are truth revealed.

For, as with steam locomotives and radial engine airplanes:
operator skill is in evidence. Tech that ends at the man.

(IMO, no further development needed. Only robustness & long-life).

It’s more than a broken component. It touches on our faith in our fellows to damage any of these mentioned. The chain binding men to one another is faith.

High water marks, are these.

See, restoration of FIFI. See restoration of AAF Crash Boat 520. See restoration of Union Pacific No, 4014. See restoration of HH Scott “Quaranta”.

These are every one of them, “faith”.

Tube equipment is always representative of our imagination at its best.

.

 

[SuicideRide]

I'm guessing the envelope is Pyrex so I'd take it to any glass blower & have them open it up so I could stick a little LED sign that says 'fedex sucks', & then seal it back up & wire it so it lights up when I key up....

But that's me.

S*r

 

[kc8adu]

unfortunately some runs of eimac tubes fail like that in normal use.
bad welds.
i remember some like that right out of the box and if they made the trip safely they failed early in service.

 

[barefootindian]

It don't help matters when a package/ parcel is literally
thrown from inside containers to warehouse floor and thrown back onto local delivery vans. Such a pity that
some goods arrive bad/broken/messed up.That sure is a bummer Drifter

 

[Slowmover]

Send a pick-and-pluck foam-lined Transport Case ahead. And that it then goes into an overcarton.