Airy R. Bean wrote:

As time passes, valves of the sort and size that we use in our TX's
are becoming increasingly rare and expensive.

Expensive yes. Rare - not so - just expensive!

There is nearly a century of folklore and industrial craft in producing
valves and overcoming problems thereto, and it seems to me that now is the
time to gather together this expertise before all the associated craftsmen
and industrialists go to the grave and their knowledge becomes lost
forever.

Sounds good to me.

Armed with such a body of knowledge, could we Radio Hams, as a body of
technically-motivated and technically-inspired aficionados, then consider
manufacturing our own?

Well - there could be a market in this - though would the 'tooling up'
be more of an outlay than you would reap back?

Is it not, after all, our pride in such technical activity that sets us
apart from
the CBer who buys all his gear from a shop (and even sends it back their
if ever it needs repair)?

Was there any need to mention 'CBer' in this posting? Totally uneeded
and unrelated.