Re: 6922 variants

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Posted by Victor Khomenko on July 8, 1999 at 06:20:35

In Reply to: Re: 6922 variants posted by Kevin Deal on July 7, 1999 at 21:53:32:

***I recently got in some late 1970's early 1980's 6N23n-EB. I think that most of these have been sold by New sensor over the years. I have seen a few different types. Some with upside down dish getter, some with a circular getter, some with grey plates, some with silver. Plates themselves, pins, bottle, etc always look like they came fom the same place.

Also, tubes produced at the same factory would undergo many changes over the years. The Soviet factories used to be swarming with pests called "rationalisators". Those usually were production workers who believed they could design things far better than engineers. So as soon as designers would leave the production floor, the pests would crawl in and start making "improvements" to the product. This practice was highly supported by management and the Party apparatchics, for it meant showing the decadent "specialists" what a dumb "proletarian" could do if equipped with nothing more than just a revolutionary zeal.

Many fine products were ruined by those pesky rationalisators. All good engineers hated them. My former boss used to say that all of them should be taken outside and summarily executed on a sunny day.

So, if you can, get the tubes designed by engineers, not the ones that have been "improved" by the rationalisators. How do you tell them apart? Damn if I know.

Regards,

Victor.

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