He owned a lot of them and sold a lot of tubes every month, generating revenue. Not sure how much, but with solid state becoming more popular, the amount kept going down, so he sold. Not sure who the German company sold to, but I assume they went to a country that was behind the curve on technologies and still had a large number of tube electronics in service.
Cleaning out the shop one day, we found a bunch of the old tubes. I kept some and mocked up a display but never finished it.
I used to work at a TV repair shop, and the owner owned a lot of these in the surrounding 6 states. In the 80s, he sold them all to a German company for something like 1M, and the German company turned around and resold them for something like 6M 3 months later.
I'm a fan of Peter Clines' books. He has an Ex heros series about superheros and zombies, very fun!
Are you one of those moron who points at a garbage man and says, "Stay in school, or you'll end up like him" all the while he's making more than you?
Hey, hey, you get back here
Plastic case shifting as it cools
Only if it's attached with one bolt in the center.
That's my neighbors cat, baby aptly named. I'm not sure the squirrel isn't stalking her.
He was being praised as a good boy at the time of the photo.
Just my 2 cents, but don't waste your time. Just get a good sealable tote and pull out the roll to print then put it back. I printed spacers to fit each roll to fit on a 1.5 pvc. Moisture would still wick up the filament and get brittle and break. So I'd have to take it apart to feed the filament and every time a roll ran out, I'd have to take it all apart again. It just all became more work than it was worth. I now use a sealable tote or when I can find them cheap enough Tupperware cake holders.
She's keeping her options open