Think this one goes out to Brad and our webmaster

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For 14 years I tested tubes, working in the back of customers' television sets.

 

[Brad]

I have been testing patience in my wife for 30 years?

 

[fiver]

I don't have to test mine anymore.
I can get her to go from almost sleeping to screaming incoherently in under 3 seconds.

 

[JWFilips]

I don't have to test mine anymore.
I can get her to go from almost sleeping to screaming incoherently in under 3 seconds.

 

[JWFilips]

By George:
I think Kevin has it fixed! Starting to see the "end" of the new posts again that I have read
THANK YOU!
Jim

 

[mattw]

You know, the scary part is, I remember those days. When you would take all the tubes to the 7-11 and test them one at a time on the stand alone tv tube tester.

When I was a kid, I was in charge of keeping our tube radio and tv running. I still have a nice collection of some rare tubes, they were nearly free at the end.

 

[JWFilips]

Man! I have a whole bunch of Ham Radio tubes listed on the ebay from my FIL I know they are new old stock in box but everyone wants them tested?
Guess this is specialized equipment
He was a radio engineer and had a mass of stuff that I have been trying to gret rid of

 

[mattw]

I wish I had kept my portable tester. I even have a few from ILLIAC I.

 

[troj]

I wish I had kept my portable tester. I even have a few from ILLIAC I.

Those sound cool!

Have any of you ever looked into Nixie tubes? There's a guy in the Czech Republic who has resurrected the manufacture of Nixie tubes and is making some pretty nifty looking clocks. I'd love to have one. I'd also love to have a clock made from IN-18 tubes.

-Kevin

 

[Paul Gauthier]

You know, the scary part is, I remember those days. When you would take all the tubes to the 7-11 and test them one at a time on the stand alone tv tube tester.

Good gravy, I also remember those testers, our local hardware store had one. I remember my dad taking all the tubes out of tv and going to the hardware store to test them. Find the faulty ones and the store had new ones.

 

[mattw]

Those sound cool!

Have any of you ever looked into Nixie tubes? There's a guy in the Czech Republic who has resurrected the manufacture of Nixie tubes and is making some pretty nifty looking clocks. I'd love to have one. I'd also love to have a clock made from IN-18 tubes.

-Kevin

I love the Nixie tube clocks! I just wish I could afford one of the good kits. Now days the high voltage supply and requirements for low EMF make tubes tough to use. I still have a couple of amps the are tube type, they really do sound better... once they warm up.

 

[mattw]

But, do you remember when gas pumps used Nixie tubes?

 

[troj]

I love the Nixie tube clocks! I just wish I could afford one of the good kits. Now days the high voltage supply and requirements for low EMF make tubes tough to use. I still have a couple of amps the are tube type, they really do sound better... once they warm up.

Check out PV Electronics - he's got some reasonably priced kits using IN-14 tubes. Anything with IN-18 is just insane, due to what the tubes go for these days.

Nope, I don't remember gas pumps with nixies.

-Kevin