Why would anyone buy from him? You don't know what you will be getting, Ebay Roulette !!
Not me !!

How do you refurbish a 6AX4 tube?

Easy: you grab the tube, put some glass cleaner in there, clean all the dirt, shine the pins and put it in a new box. The tube has been refurbished and will read 100% on the tube tester scale.

Why, it's Mr. "bulk tester" again!!---he has a patent on how to test 4 or 5 tubes at the same time on one tube tester.

A while back, I attempted discussion with him. Unfortunately, there is no discernible input port.....

Refurbished in electronics usually means tested to work with no defects.

If he tested his tubes and they were good with no defects, the use of the word "refurbished" is probably acceptable.

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That photo of the tester with a bunch of tubes stuck in it reminds me of an old Rodriguez cartoon from back in the 60's;

The scene was one of those do-it-yourself standup testers in a store, and the guy had a lot of tubes in it, along with a small CRT.

He was watching a ball game on it...

The store manager come along and says "One at a time, buddy!"

DDG

You described it well, made me chuckle. Wish I could see the original.

Refurbished to me means actually doing something to restore performance, like cleaning controls, replacing weak tubes, bad resistors & so on.

Cleaning the outside of a tube doesn't improve it's performance one bit, unless the pins were filthy or had poor solder joints. I guess you could say you refurbished a tube if you resoldered the pins, at least on tubes that have a removable base.

I sent this guy this message. Do you think he will answer?

You are selling your tube (or tubes) as being refurbished. Could you explain to me how you refurbish your tubes (in detail) . I have a lot of old radio tubes that i would love to refurbish. Also i noticed that you are able to test 6 tubes at a time. Wow! I am impressed. Could you also tell me how you do this? Sure would save me a lot of time. I wonder if you will include this message with your description and help out others that into tube radios
Thank you for any help
Stan Ski

What exactly is this guy selling for 65.50? I don't see a tube number.There are a lot of other adds that are the same way.
I think this guy is a few fries short of a happy meal.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/REFURBISHED-VAC ... 1c52d6072a

Terms that apply to modern electronics don't necessarily apply to hollow-state. Is there any period literature that says anything about refurbishing receiving tubes? Made me wonder- could you "test" rare transistors or ICs- say the rare output IC boards for Kenwood KR-9600 and call them refurbished? I still think it's misleading.

if he is going to refurbish tubes, (cough, cough, snort, ) he needs to start refurbishing 45's, 10's 50's, WD11's, western electric 300B's, and RCA 2A3's.

not the "so highly demanded" 6AX4.



thanks for the post. it was a good laugh.

steve

Yeah, that'll put a Damper on sales. (Damper, get it? because the 6AX4 is a damper tube, snort.)

yep !

steve

Tell it like it is...It's bulls..t.

This is something that need to be rectified (clever ahh ).

Really surprised he did answer me

I procure nos and bulk vacuum tubes, I clean them, straighten out any bent pins with my Hytron min pin straightening tool, After that, I visually inspect and re-label any of the larger tubes with part numbers as needed on their base with permanent stickers. Last two things really are what is included in Electronic Refurbishment of Components: I test all tubes (one at a time) and the strong ones 90-100% I recertify as good/pass, I repackage, and sell.these Refurbished Electronic Components just like I told you above. I hope that helps.
perfectly good tubes into radios and audio systems all over the country.

Also for further definition of Refurbished just look up Wikipedia: REFURBISHED, ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS. That is what I do here like they explain, Radiobrain. Hopo that helps.
Regards,
MarkZ. BS., MS.,
ZTube

Stan Ski

Good that he clear that up, now what kind of tube he was selling for $65? and he pack his tubes ergonomically. Ergonomics is the studying of people in their working environments, so how do you pack people ergonomically? that will be a coffin. Therefore he packs his tubes in coffins

i have a B.S. and a M.S.

maybe i should sell tubes.

steve