13 Mar
2013
13 Mar
'13
4:31 p.m.
On 03/13/2013 04:08 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Do any special precautions need to be taken with
storing vacuum tubes?
Are these something that can simply be tossed in the attic and forgotten
about until needed? I recently got a fair number, and expect to get
more at some point in the future.
A lot of the ones I got are simply dumped in an old metal tool box.
Nothing that I'm aware of eats vacuum tubes--and I've got some pre-WWII
stuff that's still ticking right along. I'd be careful with excess
moisture if I had a bunch of old lighthouse tubes or any other oddball
metal-to-glas stuff.
But, aside from mechanical shock, tubes are about as inert as one can get.
--Chuck