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In Reply to: RE: Oops...time to change that tube posted by Byrd69 on June 25, 2023 at 16:25:19
. . . and I guess tubes I have dropped while I was drinking don't count. . . .
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my cement garage floor. I had just pulled them while preparing my Fisher 500C receiver for shipment to Busy Bee for service. I felt sick, stupid, and careless at the same time.
and gnawing on the bakelite base. He had pulled it from the socket, and had chewed up the open-wind output transformers. I used to joke that had it been turned on, we would have had a "blown woofer".
No big loss, the transformers were console pulls, and the 45 still works in a friend's antique radio, where nobody sees it.
Back for a bit again. Ignore me if you like.
I had no idea that puppies were that destructive. Until I adoped to eight week olds two years ago last March.
"Two Corinthians, right? Two Corinthians 3:17, that's the whole ballgame. Where the spirit of the Lord-right?-is, there is liberty!"
I once walked out of my friend's house with a nice matched quad of Mullard EL34 that he sold me. By the time I got to the car....I had three. One fell out of the weak bottom of a box.
I am sooooo careful now when I carry just one tube.
I'm tired of dropping money I can't pick up.
Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)
I dropped a UOS Tung-Sol 6550....and it wasn't mine.
Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)
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"I felt sick, stupid, and careless at the same time. "
I have felt that way before. I take it that those 7591 Fisher labeled tubes are something special?
to have Fisher labeled tubes in a Fisher receiver. Also, dropping one out of four original tubes meant that I no longer had a matched set. Of course, that assumes that all the once new Fisher tubes were depleted by the same amount. Finding another used tube to match the other three would be nearly impossible. If I am misunderstanding something here, I hope someone will set me straight..
And without thinking wiped them of lettering to " clean " them of centuries of patina. Nobody wanted them after that..Apparently they lost all the magic only Fusher tube provides.
It reminds me an opinion that Ave being a proper Jew ( my mom's maiden name is Fisher as well so hold your mules) secured Nazi tubes only because they were significantly cheaper than superior American tubes. As all of you know not even 10 years after the WWII former Wermacht Nazi soldiers changed the uniforms and happily became freedom loving Nato forces and industry magnates were happy to supply western markets.
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Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)
nt
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Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)
You TMI'ed us with tube failures. Are you too embarrassed to say which ones you dropped. I killed a VT-25 by dropping it and stepped on a couple-few small signal tubes I carelessly left on the floor.
Ciao,
"One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." - Lou Reed
Cpwill
I am pretty sure that I have dropped a couple of 6550s and a couple of EL34s, but those didn't really bother me.
The one I really wish that hadn't hit the floor was a 6922 labeled Amperex USA, and that is because I recently got an email from Tube Depot and they are showing Amperex USA 6922s @ $229. I was thinking to myself, "Gee, I hope that wasn't anything special," and apparently it may have been.
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