Nu-Temp Appears Out of Business. Alternatives?

[Shelly]

My cleaning woman stuck my Nu-Temp remote unit in the oven to get it out of the way. I made dinner last night and melted it.

Calls and Emails to Nu-Temp indicate they are out of business. This is a shame because they made a great remote probe thermometer with good range and nice features.

The Maverick ET-73 and other models have lousy transmitting range, and I don't have much faith in their accuracy.

Is there anything worthwhile out there?

 

[Matt B.]

I'm not aware of another good option in that price category. A simple and practically free mod to the ET-73's circuit board (soldering on a length of wire to the antenna lead on the PCB) will increase it's range dramatically, from what I've read.

 

[Larry D.]

Is this the model you have, with a base station and remote? If so, I have the same one, and I have 3 remotes. I've probably used them 3 or 4 times altogether, and I haven't used them in quite some time, since getting a Stoker. I would gladly sell you one of my remotes cheap (you won't believe how cheap). Let me know if you're interested.

 

[Shelly]

Larry, I'm interested. If there is a private message function, let me know. I don't see one. I trust everyone on this site, but get a little nervous of web crawlers.

 

[Larry D.]

There's no private message function as far as I know. If you want, you can send me your email address here:

n2ea4ls6vill8e@yahoo.com just delete all the 2, 4, 6, and 8. (And there are no 1's, those are all lower case L.)

 

[Shelly]

Larry: Will do. And I had forgotten about the email tricks to defeat the spam. Thanks.

 

[Shelly]

Larry: Received and working!!!
Thanks.

 

[Mac]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Shelly:
Larry: Received and working!!!
Thanks. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Just goes to show ya, Nothing but good folks on this site.

 

[Larry D.]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Shelly:
Larry: Received and working!!!
Thanks. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Good! It had spent too long on the shelf in my kitchen.

 

[dann_g]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Just goes to show ya, Nothing but good folks on this site. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I agree.... what a great place you guys/ladies have made here.

 

[George Curtis]

nu temp is made/sold by pal products. i could find nothing about them being out of business.

 

[Shelly]

I know. But no one has answered the phone in a month, and after 10 rings, a generic recording comes on saying "the party" you are dialing is not available. Not what you'd expect from a going concern.

 

[Russell Y]

Pal Products Company Profile

Pal Products Address

Small company, only 5-9 employees.
Big flood in the town a week ago.

Being a small company anything could have happened. I am hopeful nothing bad and they will be back in business soon.
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Oops, wrong link. Now fixed.

 

[JimT]

Russell,

Your "address" link points to L.A.

JimT

 

[LDThornton]

I have this phone number for Pal Products that I've used to contact them: Paul at 800-545-3957

 

[LDThornton]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Larry D.:
Is this the model you have, with a base station and remote? If so, I have the same one, and I have 3 remotes. I've probably used them 3 or 4 times altogether, and I haven't used them in quite some time, since getting a Stoker. I would gladly sell you one of my remotes cheap (you won't believe how cheap). Let me know if you're interested. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Larry, if you want to sell another remote drop me a line at lthornton1@cox.net