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In Reply to: GT reissued 6L6GE tubes posted by FenderLover on June 7, 2016 at 19:48:13:
I was the engineer at GT when this tube was first manufactured. After I was done with the Ditto Box Aspen handed me a NOS GE6l6gt and told me "crack this open and send the plate and mica out to get quotes". The first run had plates punched from a NOS roll of ITT metal that was punched by AFAIK the only USA landed 4 phase punch. It was located in Orange County. The mica spacers were made by the same company that did the mica spacers for the original GE6l6 and the last runs of the green print tubes in the 80's. I can't remember the name of the company but I think they were in Illinois. The filament wire was sourced from India. I don't know about the grid wire or the cathode material. All the parts were sent to a tube factory in China to be assembled. Aspen really wanted to actually assemble at GT but it just couldn't happen. He had 2 RCA grid winders, a Russian RF getter flasher and a glass forming carousel all setup and ready. But the reality of actually staffing this proved too much at the time. This was in the lackluster post 911 economy.
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