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Try dealing with them when you are a government purchaser, for a $4K CRT - even more hurdles - triplicate purchase order, rescreen of the document number, agree on a shipping point/loading plan, and then the documentation for non-proliferation - yes, non-proliferation. Seems they sold some multiplier tubes to the wrong person once, and even the government has to certify the tube (for an aircraft HUD) is not for nuclear proliferation. ~ 6 days of frustration to get a normally stocked, normally procured part.
They should have all of Empire Video's old rebuilt CRT stock too - I wonder why that hasn't surfaced. Empire was a good rebuilder - and filled the Channel Master void nicely.
Maybe we've become the small fish in a bigger sea, and are no longer viewed as a big-enough customer?
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Brian
USN RET 22YRS (Avionics/Cal)
CET-Consumer Repair and Avionics ('88)
"Capacitor Cosmetologist since '79"
When fuses go to work, they quit!
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