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"Fleetie" wrote in message
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Hi.


The most common cause of valve amp rustling is valve amp rustlers. They
are the scum of the earth and hanging is too good for them.

They have been around for some time. When I were a lad our TV went wrong,
and my parents summoned a 'repair man'. He took the set away to examine.

After some days had passed we started asking what progress had been made.
After some discussions about his doing nowt, the TV was returned,
unrepaired. However instead of exhibiting the original fault it now showed
no picture at all, and no sound.

We asked what had gone wrong and why it had got worse. The 'repair man'
insisted it had been like that when he took it away.

Out of curiosity I opened up the set. To discover one valve was now
missing. When asked, the 'repair man' denied he'd removed it. So it must
have been a valve rustler ambushing his van. He was unable to explain why
he'd not noticed it being absent, though. So perhaps he was in cahoots with
the rustlers! :-)

A different 'repair man' fixed the set easily (without taking it away), and
confirmed it would never have worked at all without the missing valve.

I assume such incidents are rare these days. Fewer 'westerns' on TV, so
maybe the rustlers stay at home in the USA. ;-

Slainte,

Jim

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