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Yesterday while testing, I dropped an Amperex 6922 PQ from eight inches on to my office bench. Darned thing landed on its tip and whalla...opened the tube. It was interesting to see the getter disappear. It took a few minutes before it showed. I looked into the tip with a magnifying glass a few times to confirm that indeed, the tube had opened up. I also took the rare opportunity to take a few snorts. After about 4 minutes, I could see the whitening on its edges. I was surprised that the getter loss took so long to show. Strong getter? Small outlet?
I won't discuss the NIB 6500 I broke, which was not mine.
Hey, the box had a shitty flap and the tube dropped out. It wasn't my faul..... Yeah, a shitty flap...that's it. Yeah....
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
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Years ago I was working on a preamp. The set of very $$$$ NIB, or in this case sitting next TOO the box, tubes was sitting on the work bench next to me. While I was looking into the preamp, I hard the gentle sound of something rolling off the bench and then - breaking glass. Times two!
Of course it was the person who sold me the tubes that was the problem! He didn't mention the ROUNDNESS of the tube.
It wasn't the money. But how these tubes managed to survived 50 years only to end in MY stupidity.
I was hired by NYTel in 1991, after the breakup of AT&T. I asked around about vacuum tubes and the office technicians told me about a 9yd rolloff dumpster in back of the main office, filled with tubes (300bs, 350s, 274s, 212s, 310s...) that was taken away about 2 yrs earlier. The phone compny had cut over to the new switching and carrier systems and the old relics were no longer needed.
The only tubes I ever broke were a bunch of 12AX7s that were damaged in the same incident. A friend gave me four different pairs of 12AX7s and related types for my phonostage--all vintage types, such as Amperex Bugle Boys, Mullard and Telefunken. I had them in a box that tipped over. They fell onto carpet, but, because they fell together, some of them somehow managed to hit each other and break, mostly at the tip. The amazing thing is that all three that broke were of different types so that I went from 4 matched pairs to one matched pair and three singles.
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