[maxhifi]

wrote in message
ups.com...
I've always been under the impression that a lot of 70's vintage beam
power tubes marked "made in England" or "made in Holland" were actually
made in Eastern Europe or Russia and marked with funny countries of
origin just so they could be imported.

These seem to show up particularly in the "United" brand boxes but I
also see these funny markings associated with no-name companies like
"Standard Brands" etc. too.

Have I really been off-base with my presumptions? I'm sure that my
presumption is based entirely on something I heard at a hamfest in the
early 80's, and a lot of the other stuff I heard there was complete
hogwash too :-).

Tim.


I have an Amperex 6V6GT, and also an Amperex EF86 which are both Russian
tubes, and marked Made in England
I also have a Realistic Lifetime (radio shack) type 80, which is clearly an
indirectly heated tube, and also clearly
Russian made, but marked Made in England.

I've had varied experience with Russian tubes, some are good (Svetlana
EL34), some are bad (Sovtek 12AX7)