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How to handle infant mortality of Svet 6550C?

Purchased from Vintage Electron,one tube died,out of an octet purchased for my ARC VS110.Tubes were used by me for a total of 4 hours,bias checked metculously after every hour after warmup with no signal.
The dead tube took a resistor with it(hopefully not more-remains to be seen).
My question is:What kind of refund/compensation is in order here:Can I return all 8 tubes?Who is responsible,etc.?
Thanks,Raanan
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herman
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Sorry Elevick, but you are completely backwards in your assessment. It is HIGHLY unusual for a resistor to fail on it's own while is extremely common for a tube to fail in a catastrophic manner and take other components with it.

Rey, what does the person who sold you the tubes have to say?
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