Burning in caps without burning out tubes?

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I don't know if this is correct or not but ....
When I was building guitar tube amps, I was told that I could break in the new components by removing the power tubes and letting the amp "cook" with junk preamp tubes. Sounded like a great idea since nobody wants to ruin NOS tubes! I THINK it worked but I'm not positive. Blazing 100 watt distorted guitar amps aren't exactly "audiophile" in nature.
Can anyone comment on this? I've got some V-caps coming and I don't want to ruin some good tubes trying to reach the 400 hour burn in benchmark.

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Topic - Burning in caps without burning out tubes? - gnugear 15:17:27 03/02/07 (3)

Give this a try - simple and effective! - mbhcid 06:48:24 03/03/07 (2)

Multiple caps - Paul_A 02:41:31 03/05/07 (1)

Re: Multiple caps - gnugear 08:33:36 03/05/07 (0)

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