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Hi everyone, I purchased a pair of matched PS Vane WE 300B Replica tubes.
The tube pins are 1.5mm longer than the tubes that came with the preamp.
When you push down the tube into the tube socket the female receptacles in the socket reject the pins and the tube pops back up.
This is true for both tubes in both sockets.
The original PS Vane 300B tubes click into place effortlessly.
The manufacturer of the preamp said I could file off the bottom of the tubes.
How much can I file off?
How about the connection inside the pins?
Are the pins completely filled with solder?
What a bummer!
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Topic - My 300B tubes don't fit - Will G. 17:54:37 03/07/21 (35)
- RE: My 300B tubes don't fit - Will G. 19:03:13 03/11/21 (7)
- RE: My 300B tubes don't fit - Will G. 19:10:44 03/11/21 (6)
- RE: My 300B tubes don't fit - Tre' 19:27:44 03/11/21 (5)
- Yep... - Ivan303 19:37:12 03/11/21 (4)
- Philips capacitors? - maxhifi 06:01:57 03/12/21 (1)
- Strange chinese manufactures printed something "audiophile" on a shrink wrap? (nr) - Chip647 20:46:34 03/16/21 (0)
- RE: Yep... - Tre' 20:04:57 03/11/21 (1)
- RE: Yep... - Triode_Kingdom 22:22:27 03/11/21 (0)
- Did you take the bottom off your preamp to see what was in the way of the tube pins? nt - Tre' 16:39:32 03/11/21 (0)
- something really wrong here - Story 06:10:58 03/10/21 (0)
- What brand is it? - Ivan303 05:34:59 03/10/21 (0)
- Avoid that manufacturer like the plague - Jay Buridan 09:31:49 03/09/21 (8)
- Which one?? - Ralph 10:10:49 03/10/21 (7)
- Sorry. PS Vane - Jay Buridan 05:36:37 03/17/21 (0)
- Guessing that it's a problem with the tube socket... - Ivan303 14:42:49 03/10/21 (5)
- RE: Taks a look at Tre's photo in the subthread below - Ralph 14:57:00 03/10/21 (4)
- Didn't see any mention by the OP as to the brand of amp.... - Ivan303 15:50:40 03/10/21 (3)
- In a post below.. - Tre' 17:51:37 03/10/21 (2)
- Ah yes, different post. - Ivan303 18:54:33 03/10/21 (1)
- RE: Ah yes, different post. - Tre' 19:37:03 03/10/21 (0)
- Blue resistors under the tube sockets. - Tre' 08:28:43 03/09/21 (1)
- RE: Blue resistors under the tube sockets. - zacster 07:58:06 03/10/21 (0)
- Check your tubes against this drawing from the WE Data - maxhifi 07:44:29 03/09/21 (1)
- Ah. Good point! - Jonesy 14:08:16 03/10/21 (0)
- RE: My 300B tubes don't fit - Will G. 17:06:47 03/08/21 (0)
- RE: My 300B tubes don't fit - Blackdog 13:50:15 03/08/21 (3)
- RE: My 300B tubes don't fit - Triode_Kingdom 15:27:44 03/08/21 (2)
- 'Mute' button while Rod is at it... - Ivan303 07:00:30 03/10/21 (0)
- TK, I do the same thing. nt - Tre' 08:19:10 03/09/21 (0)
- Do not file off the bottom of the tubes. That is a really bad idea. nt - Tre' 06:10:22 03/08/21 (0)
- Spacer - RedM 05:14:52 03/08/21 (1)
- RE: Spacer - Rocket_Powered 06:35:19 03/08/21 (0)
- Change the tube socket! - andy evans 00:57:52 03/08/21 (1)
- Clearly there must be a 'bottom' on the tube socket pin holes.... - Ivan303 08:34:34 03/08/21 (0)
- RE: My 300B tubes don't fit - Sherlock 19:47:41 03/07/21 (0)