In Reply to: mercury rectifier tubes posted by thermionic addictions on July 17, 2015 at 16:23:24:
The 83 actually did come in globe form, but only from Eveready Raytheon, from my experience. They are fairly rare, but I managed to acquire a few.
Western Electric had a lot of nice single-phase globe-shape MV rectifiers but none that were full-wave as far as I know.
There were some oddball 866 variants and such that came in smaller globe bulbs, smaller than 866. Most are pretty rare, and you would be hard pressed to put together pairs of them. And they were single-wave (like an 866jr). 866AX comes to mind as does A660, both from amperex.
Also, I think Kenrad made the KR-1 (not 100% sure on the name) which was basically like a 37 globe but as a rectifier with MV fill. Also pretty rare.
-Ed
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