[QuadList] Another Stolen Quad

[Chill315 at aol.com]

I used to work at a place and when I got there we had an RCA machine.   
Previously they had got one of the quads used.  It was DOA  and then serviced 
by RCA.  About six months later RCA called and  asked for it back.  It turns 
out that the seller had removed it from a dark  TV station in Illinois.  He 
had so called permission to use it.  After  a period of time, he sold it.  
It was shipped via a bus line.
 
RCA had let the station go dark and not done anything about it. Nothing was 
 secured.  They let the place sit for a year or so.  They went to court  
and lost the case.  It was when they asked for list price on a machine that  
was bare bones and they had offered to the company the same at deep  
discounts.  They came across as not credible.
 
The sad thing was that the machine did not have any accessories.  Only  
CATC.  Then there were a lot of SK and HEP transistors in it.  This  was the 
cause of a lot of problems.  I finally got it to perform  decently.  
 
No one knew about the status of the machine until the final disposition of  
the court case.  The story came out and a lot of us were surprised.   After 
the case was won, we got rid of it.
 
So the moral of the story is make sure that you know the history of the  
machine.
 
Chris Hill
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