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CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

See the guts has moved down the neck...

gjaky · Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Posts: 2802 Location: Budapest, Hungary

Ou

CIR Engineering · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 1:17 pm Post subject:

The box must have been very roughly handled Sad

The ceramics inside the necks got damaged in shipping. That can only happen if the box is dropped HARD.

Looks like we'll have to file a claim. I wonder how that will work between Oz and the USA.

Great just what we needed and after all your work putting them in and mine taking them out and packing. I really can't believe that they managed to damage those tubes with how well they were packed.

craigr

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 4:12 pm Post subject:

Sucks!!!

I do have a set of mint XG tubes if you want to try again...

CIR Engineering · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 4:51 pm Post subject:

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

I dont have much time at the moment cause im running abit behing here, but yes there was a HUGE effort that went into the packing of these tubes, very little chance the job couldve been done better. As seem in an earlier pic in this thread, that was only one layer of the many used!!

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

I will email you some pics of the tube necks Craig as well as good necks, i will check the box again, but i saw no sign of damage to that at all.

Curt, what housings are those tubes in? I really didnt want to have to remove my other good tubes from their AC housings to switch them to my LC housings.

While i was doing some further investigation prior to removal, i had contrast and brightness down near zero, the blue phosphor obviously has particles of broken off stuff on it, yet it cant be seen when the face is lit with a torch.

If nothing else, i did a full AC-LC tube and mounting plate swap in 3 hours on the ceiling, thats not a bad effort Wink

the big E · Joined: 20 Apr 2013 Posts: 1928 Location: speedwell Tn.

Ouch case that sucks mate

They must have really rough handled the box for it to happen

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

Yeah Evan, not ideal mate is it. Oh well, worse things could happen.

the big E · Joined: 20 Apr 2013 Posts: 1928 Location: speedwell Tn.

So true its a wonder they wasn't smashed given the likelyhood of how they were handled

I hope the next ones arive intact

CasetheCorvetteman · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 6326 Location: Australia

VDC still has new stock of P16LJE07 tubes so they tell me.

the big E · Joined: 20 Apr 2013 Posts: 1928 Location: speedwell Tn.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:23 am Post subject:

Case, who did you talk to and when? VDC's tube division shut down about 18 months ago, they threw out 60,000 tubes. Mainly consumer stuff I'd think, but unless stock got transferred to Florida, it's all gone now.

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**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:05 am Post subject:

the big E · Joined: 20 Apr 2013 Posts: 1928 Location: speedwell Tn.

Lol

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

the big E · Joined: 20 Apr 2013 Posts: 1928 Location: speedwell Tn.

ecrabb · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:14 am Post subject:

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