rswyan
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Mysfyt
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Vacuum tubes might be worth selling on fleabay.
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You should have told him when he first offered it "Great, you owe me $60, i'll only owe you $40"
DEFINITELY scarf all the tubes up.
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muddstopper
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I cant understand this guys methods or motives when it comes to cleaning out this shop. I told him to take pictures and put everything for sale on one of the local facebook yard sale sites. Stuff that I think would be worth hundreds of dollars, he is giving away for $20-$40 just to get it out of the way. If it dont sell fast, it going in a dumpster. there is a lot of junk there, but there is a lot of high dollar stuff there as well.
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All those vacuum tubes are worth money! Grab them. Particularly if they are ham radio specialist types.
They haven't been made for years and there is still demand for them, which bids up prices.
I found a 10" tall transmitter tube at a friend's who bids government surplus auctions. I put it on Ebay @ $200 and it sold immediately.
I looked at the buyer's website and he specializes in furnishing replacement parts for the telephone systems in third-world countries where old Motorola etc stuff is still in use. He asked if I could get more, I sold him 3 more at $200 each. He will probably sell them for a huge markup from that.
They haven't been made for years and there is still demand for them, which bids up prices.
I found a 10" tall transmitter tube at a friend's who bids government surplus auctions. I put it on Ebay @ $200 and it sold immediately.
I looked at the buyer's website and he specializes in furnishing replacement parts for the telephone systems in third-world countries where old Motorola etc stuff is still in use. He asked if I could get more, I sold him 3 more at $200 each. He will probably sell them for a huge markup from that.
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muddstopper
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good info about the vacuum tubes, also the old Motorola raidos, I know there is a stack of those o;d police, fire departement radios setting in the corner. I think he said that he had tried several and they all worked. I might just offer to hual the all off for him and list on ebay myself.
LincTex
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Old tube-type HAM radio stuff can bring obscene prices on ebay, depending on what it is.
By all means, save all of it from the dumpster and list it - - then take your 90% profit and buy cool shop tools & stuff!