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My 300B tubes don't fit

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)

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