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Have you seen some of the asking prices for audio tubes on Ebay lately??? Holy Christ it's insane. I am guessing they aren't selling at those ridiculous prices since I see them on there everyday for months.

$900 for a pair of Mullard ECC83's, used with crappy pics, no verification they are what they say they are....etc.

H9

Battery recycling isn't possible on a lot of ev batteries.
Uncle Sam pays out to companies to recycle or render
them less dangerous. When the subsidies stop, so will
the recycling. Much like the plastic recycling scam. 90%
Of plastic goes to a landfill or gets dumped in the ocean.
Any bets on what happens when all that lithium and
other nasties leech out into the soil after they bury the
leftovers?

Upstatemax wrote: »

Inspired by an old thread of @stangman67 I'm working with a neighbor of mine that does a lot of woodwork and we are building me a new audio stand.

We found the maple slabs from one of his normal suppliers. They are currently 2.5" thick, but have a slight cup. So we are going to be bringing them to another shop that has a planer that can handle the size of slabs we sourced to flatten them. But, we need to wait for his shop to not be in maple syrup production mode.

Using comments from Stangman, I'm ordering 7/8 -9 threaded rods and nuts for the uprights.

Stangman, where did you source your threaded rods from?

I got the threaded rods from grainger. Plenty of options here https://www.grainger.com/category/fasteners/threaded-rods-studs/fully-threaded-rods-studs?attrs=Thread+Size|7/8"-9&filters=attrs

I didn't spend big money, used basic black ozide rods in 3ft sections

VR3 wrote: »

@ohskigod maybe?

Nah, Lou is about an hour away, probably.

It's about 2.5 from me.

It is a more affluent area but that's because it's made up of a mix of NJ hillbillies and farmers and NYC executives with their sprawling estates. Census data shows the median household income was $88,800 which means half the population is above that, the other half is below that. But West Milford has a sub 3% poverty level. There's only, like, 25K people there too. So that should give you an idea of how affluent it is if the median income level is over $30K higher than the national average income.

It's not a podunk place despite being on the outskirts of "civilization".

It's a gorgeous area though, visited often by many because of the proximity to stuff like High Point State Park and Stokes State Forest and all the little spots in between.