Watching this morning,
According to an interview in https://guitar.com/features/intervi...ic-confirms-plans-tube-georgia-factory-crisis
March, we will increase its offerings to include 12ax7, 12at7, 6L6, 6V6, el34, KT88, EL84, etc.,
I suggest all goto the contact page and thank them, and let them know what tubes you would want !
According to an interview in https://guitar.com/features/intervi...ic-confirms-plans-tube-georgia-factory-crisis
March, we will increase its offerings to include 12ax7, 12at7, 6L6, 6V6, el34, KT88, EL84, etc.,
I suggest all goto the contact page and thank them, and let them know what tubes you would want !
That YouTube video is over a year old and the "article that was published yesterday" has a March of 2022 date on it.
I know that Hartley Peavey and Charles Whitener (the new WE) have been in discussions specifically related to the 6L6GC and 12AX7 dating back over 5 years, but so far Peavey amps still use relabeled offshore tubes. Hartley has showed up at the Dayton Hamfest twice in the past 10 years and I got to talk with him about guitar amps, tubes and some neat new ideas both times.
I know that Hartley Peavey and Charles Whitener (the new WE) have been in discussions specifically related to the 6L6GC and 12AX7 dating back over 5 years, but so far Peavey amps still use relabeled offshore tubes. Hartley has showed up at the Dayton Hamfest twice in the past 10 years and I got to talk with him about guitar amps, tubes and some neat new ideas both times.
Sometimes the "juice isn't worth the squeeze". It may just be cheaper to achieve equivalent performance by selecting the best from an inferior process than to have a more expensive process with fewer rejects. We're talking about precision assemblies here; just to get a decent functional product requires a meaningful process/QC/Controls, the room for improvement upon that by onshoring might be more marginal than we think.
Somebody will have to make that judgement call. Hell, Peavey might offer the choice of tube sourcing - paying more for “the good stuff”, which “doesnt support world conflict” and let the consumer and his wallet decide.
Sser sorry if I wasted your time..
All others, i have also heard rumors but never a starting month. That said, i promise to get more than 1 cup of coffee in me before getting excited 😊 I have searched for tube related videos from the youtube endlessly for 3 years now.. why that feed only popped up today who knows....
Please excuse my horrible horrible foolishness....
And badman... i only heard that line a few months ago... wouldn't it be a small world if a guy named Dominic turned you on to it?
All others, i have also heard rumors but never a starting month. That said, i promise to get more than 1 cup of coffee in me before getting excited 😊 I have searched for tube related videos from the youtube endlessly for 3 years now.. why that feed only popped up today who knows....
Please excuse my horrible horrible foolishness....
And badman... i only heard that line a few months ago... wouldn't it be a small world if a guy named Dominic turned you on to it?
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Unless WE are going to be price competitive with JJ, I would have zero interest in buying from them. I've been around long enough to see people pay through the nose for 'brands' and lost my desire to join them.
C'mon. you got excited about something and wanted to share. Who cares if it was old news. Maybe re-pinging interest will get the momentum going again. Never know.
As far as ive read, WE did actually buy the EI tooling from the liquidation.
However this is likely going to be hard, the WE300B line that they continued after Bell labs shut down the line had been down for less than 2 years in the 90s
They managed to hire a lot of ex-employees to restart production, and had stock of the required materials.
For restarting production of EI/Philips types, one needs a vastly expanded machine park. Acces to materials that have been dropped from production schedules. And worst of all, all the people who knew how to run the machines are in Serbia.
Ive seen the efforts by the great british valve project, they have zero tube blueprints, zero suppliers for speciality metals and glass. The machines they have seem to be from EI as well, but said to be stored since the early 90s, which suggest EI got rid of those machines due to downsizing the line?
What is interesting about the GBVP is that they have a nearly complete glass line for octal and noval. Bulbs+ stems.
However this is likely going to be hard, the WE300B line that they continued after Bell labs shut down the line had been down for less than 2 years in the 90s
They managed to hire a lot of ex-employees to restart production, and had stock of the required materials.
For restarting production of EI/Philips types, one needs a vastly expanded machine park. Acces to materials that have been dropped from production schedules. And worst of all, all the people who knew how to run the machines are in Serbia.
Ive seen the efforts by the great british valve project, they have zero tube blueprints, zero suppliers for speciality metals and glass. The machines they have seem to be from EI as well, but said to be stored since the early 90s, which suggest EI got rid of those machines due to downsizing the line?
What is interesting about the GBVP is that they have a nearly complete glass line for octal and noval. Bulbs+ stems.
@v4lve lover , they do say on their website they need some volunteers. With your in depth knowledge of the tube manufacturing process, is that something you have considered?
Regarding materials, valves ought to be perfect candidates for sustainability since it is just glass and metal. Maybe my vast collection of UCH81s could be reborn as KT66s!
Regarding materials, valves ought to be perfect candidates for sustainability since it is just glass and metal. Maybe my vast collection of UCH81s could be reborn as KT66s!
That's an idea... Leave a box of useless radio and tv tubes at the factory, come back a week later and receive a pair of nice audio tubes 😀