Once was lost, now is found...

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Wife decides she wants to 'see' all of her CD's that have been in boxes in storage on high shelves at the end of the new garage. Packed when we move here from San Francisco in 2018 and on high shelves since we built a new garage in 2020.

Of course they are in the far corner of the top 6 ft. deep by 12 ft. wide shelf.

So to get to the I had to move lots of HEAVY boxes with speaker drivers (Goodmans of England), transformers (Heyboer, Lundahl and a full set of hand made iron from some obscure winder in Holland for a 45 parafeed driving an 845 Parafeed).

In a word, heavy boxes up and down all for some two or three boxes, about 1000+ CDs.

BUT...

In the mix I found a HUGE box of tubes that I had been missing since we moved from Utah back to our home in San Francisco in 2007.

I knew I was missing a pair of NEW NOS, RCA Globe 10 in stapled original boxes that allow testing without opening the box. But, which I did not know I even had, three NOS WE 275A two of which are in their original boxes with lot numbers matching the tunes inside with no evidence of ever being opened!

So, if memory serves, a WE 275A is like a 2A3 with a 5V heater?

Might work in a 300B preamp that only drops less than 100 volts across the tube and very little current?

Still, a lot of work of a few boxes of old CDs and some old tubes.

First they came for the dumb-asses
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a dumb-ass

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Topic - Once was lost, now is found... - Ivan303 11:30:05 04/10/23 (4)

RE: Once was lost, now is found... - Triode_Kingdom 22:49:52 04/11/23 (1)

RE: "quite a nuisance" - Ivan303 06:13:33 04/12/23 (0)

RE: Once was lost, now is found... - Tre' 11:57:43 04/10/23 (1)

RE: Once was lost, now is found... - Dave Pogue 12:40:01 04/10/23 (0)

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