So I was a bit sad thinking that some of the parts I have known to be good and sometimes great may no longer be available due to recent world events.
However, the popular auction site listings now all show the origin as being “Ukraine”, all of them…
Funny how just a couple weeks ago or so that they nearly all said USSR.
Well maybe the parts are still available, but I have a feeling someone is not being truthful about where they are coming from, kind of like diamonds.
However, the popular auction site listings now all show the origin as being “Ukraine”, all of them…
Funny how just a couple weeks ago or so that they nearly all said USSR.
Well maybe the parts are still available, but I have a feeling someone is not being truthful about where they are coming from, kind of like diamonds.
It's a bit hard to say. The two places where that stuff usually came from are Russia and Ukraine. It would not surprise me if most of the Russian listings were taken down, leaving mostly the Ukrainian sellers. It's also possible that there's some lying going on.
FWIW, most of us own things that were made by children working in very dangerous and unhealthy conditions for little or no pay. That's not to suggest it's okay to buy things from Russia right now (it's not), but it's something to think about. I'm really not sure how much more ethical it is to support someone who forces 8-year-old kids to work in a mine for little to no pay than it is to buy something from a a Russian guy selling surplus crap out of his garage. That's a question for someone who understand world economics/politics/ethics better than me.
With the exception of some pulse-rated high-voltage caps, I rarely use cold-war surplus caps in stuff I build.
FWIW, most of us own things that were made by children working in very dangerous and unhealthy conditions for little or no pay. That's not to suggest it's okay to buy things from Russia right now (it's not), but it's something to think about. I'm really not sure how much more ethical it is to support someone who forces 8-year-old kids to work in a mine for little to no pay than it is to buy something from a a Russian guy selling surplus crap out of his garage. That's a question for someone who understand world economics/politics/ethics better than me.
With the exception of some pulse-rated high-voltage caps, I rarely use cold-war surplus caps in stuff I build.
Well, I am certainly not removing the FT-3 or KY40-9 caps from my amps
Just to be politically correct! 😋
Nor am I scrapping my Russian Birch ply speakers! 😵
Just to be politically correct! 😋
Nor am I scrapping my Russian Birch ply speakers! 😵
You will find a lot of that stuff was sold by sellers in the Ukraine, and neighbouring countries that fell out of the soviet union. Certainly all the FT and K72 teflon caps i use were bought from a guy in the Ukraine. .....he is doing ok, i emailed him to say hello 😉
Nice to hear that your guy is doing ok. Is it possible to buy stuff from him? Help him to make som money? Need som tubes....
Sorry, really don’t mean to post topics that are politically oriented, is against the forum rules for obvious reasons.
I was just taken back a bit at the listings all changed locations overnight…
You are free to buy whatever you want of course.
I was just taken back a bit at the listings all changed locations overnight…
You are free to buy whatever you want of course.
Yeah, I agree, nearly every system I have currently uses parts (capacitors) from that area, and I chose them because they work well!
Even if stuff is made by forced labour etc. ... there will alway be people defending the use. It is just like that. Personal interest wins, there is no need to defend that and try to find excuses for it.
Worse is the sudden ban on anything Russian. As if the average Russian is guilty of what happens right now.
Worse is the sudden ban on anything Russian. As if the average Russian is guilty of what happens right now.
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Ahh.... the Good Old Days, when dedicated citizens worked in factories for a decent pay...and made products under strict Quality Controls.
1950's Workers in an RCA plant..long before robots took over.
1950's Workers in an RCA plant..long before robots took over.
Those humans look so happy working away on the line. I have spent a bit of my time programming or electrical troubleshooting/developing assembly line machinery. The machines are usually happier and not thinking of how to do in the boss.
I have to admit I have piles of nice parts from a large defense contractor. They gave away some of the surplus to a local high school electronics department. I try to not think less of the corning resistors or the 1/4 % tolerance capacitors.
In my stock I have Cold War parts that cost as much as a car when they were produced. They were produced in the largest weapon manufacturing and exporting nation in the world.
Being realistic, I kinda doubt that those workers would be smiling as they focus and concentrate on assembly and testing.
Camden, 1930s, they called the army to quell striking RCA workers.
Forced speed-up, uncredited work, nepotistic advancement, you know the reasons.
This is apparently why Cunningham came east, for "Labor Relations" (strike-breaking).
After that, RCA quickly reduced production at Camden. In the 1960s it was a ghost-town of cold-war engineers and empty halls.
TV production started in Bloomington, and those workers soon made trouble. Before Bloomington was at full capacity, RCA was building in Memphis, which collapsed almost immediately. Then in Juárez, Mexico, where worker compliance was promised by Mexican society and guaranteed by government troops (out of sight of any media). book
All before one real robot.
In the end RCA could not cope and collapsed in a chain of sell-offs.