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Murph Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 Someday, maybe, I'll show you my 6L6 hoard........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyMoon Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Cool...looking at those reminds me of being at the hardware store with mt Dad back in the early 70's to get TV tubes...good memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Rowdy... Even more memories for me... in the '50s I already was doing radio repair on my own, and the local "radio repair" shop had a tube tester in the front "display" room along with some nice tube radios and television sets on sale. At that point in time, in my little town I'd not even seen a guitar amp, but there was a tube PA system used by the chamber of commerce for Saturday night "drawings" that brought the rural folks into town - and Dad's friend/competitor in the car business down the street had a combo with a tube PA system for his wife to sing with... The informal training did me well because I ended up helping my high school's sailing team keep its antique tube PA operating for race starts, announcements, etc. Car radios, btw, were tube type too at the time. I actually used a motorcycle battery on my bicycle to have a car radio blasting away - but it was awfully heavy and the battery needed a lotta recharging. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skilsaw Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 I understand that people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder sometimes become hoarders. You don't have OCD, do you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveFord Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 It's easy to end up with a huge tube collection without even noticing it happening. You buy a pair here, a pair there, somebody offers you a box of 50 and so on and so forth. The fun part is seeing how different they all sound from one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall Paul Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Bugger! I knew I should have kept that ol' Victor RCA TV set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Whoa! I'm over here trying to sniff the tubes thru my monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 How many of us automatically started reading the boxes looking for usable ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Someday, maybe, I'll show you my 6L6 hoard........ Uh, yea. Duh. You KNOW that's what we want to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Before I lost my storage, I had a HUGE collection, including a very comprehensive 12ax7 hoard. I was kinda thin on the 6L6, basically only having MAYBE one of each. I mean, one pair of black plates, one pair of GE side getters, one pair of Tung-Sol 5881's, etc. Just enough to establish a "baseline", in a matter of speaking. But I had enough 6V6's to maybe last a lifetime, and could (and would) use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 I don't see any 7591a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 I don't see any 7591a Gulp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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