On 3 May 2006 11:16:38 -0700, Charlie Turdo, masquerading as the
"voice of reason" using spam address
wrote:

I have about 10 hours in on this now. snip

Almost any tube has a 'burn in' period at the factory. At the Western
Electric tube plants, this could be as long as a week on beam power
tubes, RF heptodes and triodes. The ONLY thing the "burn in" period
was designed to do was to show up manufacturing and material defects
in newly made tubes. The throium in any vacuum tube starts to deplete
as soon as a load is put on it.

As usual, Charlie Nudo, aka 66fourdoor, has his head way up his ass.
It's no wonder 90% of his auctions are closing with NO BIDS.