Spare parts: Russia war sanctions hurt Cuba’s Lada drivers

[El Presidente]

 

Spare parts: Russia war sanctions hurt Cuba’s Lada drivers

Cuban statistics indicate the island has about 20,000 old American cars and 80,000 to 100,000 Ladas.

Francisco Pérez Rodríguez has a car problem — one that is starting to be all too common for many Cubans.

He’s been rebuilding the engine of his father-in-law’s Moskvich — one of tens of thousands of cars and other vehicles that poured into Cuba from its Cold War allies in the Soviet bloc and later Russia during the past half-century.

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[SCgarman]

Russia is one of only three countries that make vacuum tubes for guitar amplifiers. Now you only have China and Slovakia due to the obvious. Worldwide vacuum tube shortage now. Added to the list of other things.

[MattxG]

4 hours ago, SCgarman said:

Russia is one of only three countries that make vacuum tubes for guitar amplifiers. Now you only have China and Slovakia due to the obvious. Worldwide vacuum tube shortage now. Added to the list of other things.

And things were bad for the tube market before the russia thing.  One of the major factories in China had a fire last year sometime and was offline for months.  I'm not sure they're even back online yet tbh.  On the positive side an american manufacturer has announced plans to start manufacturing tubes used in guitar amps, but it appears like tubes are gonna be in short supply for the next while.  I suppose this is just the way of the world now, all the things I like are in short supply 😂