OT Cascade surplus being sued for mercury poisoning.

[macona]

Unfortunately no projects from me this time, though this might be of interest to readers. And it somewhat relates to my little welder thread.

Some moron is suing about 20 companies blaming them for him getting mercury poisoning from vacuum tubes. One of the defendants being a local surplus store, Cascade Surplus, who has no record of ever selling tubes to him! Here is a link to his little sub-page about it.

This is going to pretty much put him under as he has always been on the brink. There are links to the original documents as well. http://www.cascadesurplus.com/lawsuit/

I know this is not related to machining, but people need to know how precarious some of out sources of goodies are positioned.

-Jerry

[mike4]

Unfortunately no projects from me this time, though this might be of interest to readers. And it somewhat relates to my little welder thread.

Some moron is suing about 20 companies blaming them for him getting mercury poisoning from vacuum tubes. One of the defendants being a local surplus store, Cascade Surplus, who has no record of ever selling tubes to him! Here is a link to his little sub-page about it.

This is going to pretty much put him under as he has always been on the brink. There are links to the original documents as well. http://www.cascadesurplus.com/lawsuit/

I know this is not related to machining, but people need to know how precarious some of out sources of goodies are positioned.

-Jerry

Look like someone is out to make a quick dollar at the cost of businesses going under due to no fault of theirs.
Michael

[Circlip]

Home cooking from the land of litigation. Amen.

Regards Ian.

[wierdscience]

It's a sad fact that in this country anybody can be sued by anyone for any reason even if there is no case.It still costs money to defend against these suits and it's long past time to end the practice.

[Black_Moons]

Sad. Considering the difficulty of getting mercury poisoning these days... (What did he do, EAT vacuum tubes?) Just sounds like BS to me.

My heart goes out to the surplus company. The prices on the 2 order forms on that page look really nice. ($3 for a 1000uf 200v cap? Nice)

Bet this same guy is complaining that he can't find work and all the businesses have left the USA for some totally unknown reason...

Seems others are complaining about him as well:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=416248

You can contact him and voice your feelings btw:
http://hotglassaudio.com/contact.htm
Phone: (724) 228-3237
info@hotglassaudio.com
Appears to be the company (And person) named on the order forms...

According to what I can gather from forum posts, around 2006 it was a legit respected company. by 2009 people where complaining about items in repair for months and unable to contact him. Sometime around then he claimed to have illnesses. One claimed to be from 'soldering' (Again, did he EAT the solder?) Unless your using large molten pools of solder (wave reflow, solder pots) the lead fumes are simply not enough to be a hazard

[flylo]

I was in the lumber buisness & lawyers were holding seminars on class action lawsuits. They would buy 1 condo or tract house & tear it apart to find anything wrong, mold,chemicals, etc,etc. Then start a class action lawsuit against anyone that had anything to do with the job, suppiers, contractors, tradesmen,delivery people,etc. Our insurance company fought the 1st 28 cases & lost so now it's automatic they settle. Very sad state of affairs in our country. Very sad.

[atty]

From a review of the court docket, it would appear that the majority of those defendants have already been voluntarily dismissed from the suit. Cascade, however, does not appear with counsel, so it looks like he's still in the soup.

[Optics Curmudgeon]

Most, if not all, of the tubes listed have no mercury in them at all. This is a broad based gold digging operation, and some of the defendants have big bucks to fight back with. I think Cascade can probably wait this out to a large extent while the big guys beat up the ambulance chasers.

[Jaakko Fagerlund]

It's a sad fact that in this country anybody can be sued by anyone for any reason even if there is no case.It still costs money to defend against these suits and it's long past time to end the practice.

I'm happy that we have a system where there is no case without evidence, so no court for nothing. Though, one person can sue another in case of a fight (contract related things), but if the sued one sends one letter saying he/she is against it, the suer (sorry, don't know the proper terms) has to come out with evidence or the case is dismissed.

[John Stevenson]

???

It costs $5000 to hire a lawyer and $50 to hire a crack head with a baseball bat ?

No contest.