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Brown Spooge?

Posted by mashley (A) on June 5, 2012 at 20:03:43

I got some Bendix 5852's on ebay a few weeks ago and have had them in my amps for a couple of weeks now whilst evaluating them, this evening I decided to pull them and compare with my fav 1940 brimar 6X5's.
When removed them I noticed dark brown spooge about as thick as cold molasses all in the tube socket, upon inspection it was coming from the 5852's base and running down the pins and also oozing up from the base a 32th or so up around the glass?

I can only think some monkey at some point has tried to secure loose bases with some ick that gets viscous when warm, I cant imagine this being a Bendix issue considering these were used in the Apollo space mission.

It's going to take me a good 45 minutes with goof of and pipe cleaners to clean these bloody sockets now! Grrr...

Has anyone ever come across anything like this before?

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