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In Reply to: RE: Boxes--100s--of NOS tubes....what to do? posted by wolfie62 on April 12, 2017 at 18:31:07
I think the simple reality is that time has moved on - we don't need tubes anymore for the jobs they did years ago. That rules out a huge number of tubes that were used in computers, televisions and all sorts of other kit. If you have a stock of them, just sell them for whatever you can get and move on.
However, as we all know there are a bunch of tubes that are kind of immortal - the EL34s, 6L6s, 12A*7 etc. that are still used in stage amps, plus all the DHTs like 26, 01A, 10Y, 300b, 2a3 etc. which continue to sound better than their alternatives in purist builds.
I can't see any real alternative to keeping the tubes that have a current value, as above, and just disposing of the rest. OK - you may have to go through stages of loss in your mind, the first of which is denial, but you can work through that.
Follow Ups:
If that stash does not have any 6L6's or 12AX7's in it, it is worthless. The TV tubes are too hard to use( vs a type 26? LMAO ).
cheers,
Douglas
Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
...horizontal and vertical sweep tubes come to mind as well as some really high gm IF tubes. Damper diodes are useful for very slow warm-up, high current, low drop B+ rectifiers if vacuum rectifification is desired.
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