27 Mar
2005
27 Mar
'05
3:58 a.m.
At 02:30 AM 3/27/2005, you wrote:
Just thought I'd let the listees know that while
visiting my local parts
and equipment store today (which carries a large amount of discontinued
and surplus items of all types), I noticed there was a whole aisle of
electronic vacuum tubes there. Guess it's been there for quite a while, I
just hadn't noticed it before. I looked at several of the tubes and saw
that the addresses listed on the boxes contained no ZIP codes, so I figure
that a good part if not all of these tubes are vintage items from back in
the '50s or '60s. I have no idea what prices they have on these items as
most of the stuff is unmarked, but I know from buying other items there,
their prices are usually pretty reasonable. If anyone has any needs of
vintage vacuum tubes, contact me off list and I be glad to check on them
for you. I saw RCA, GE, and Sylvania there to mention a few and I believe
most were for TVs and Radios, but who knows what else I may find
there. I'm not an electronics person so I don't know what distinguishes
one tube type from another. Let me know if I can be of help to anyone out
there.
Bill
bmachacek at pcisys.net
Back in the fifties and sixties tv manufacturers had a nasty habit
of installing new odd ball tubes in their yearly models. Any one in the tv
repair business had to stock a few of each, and if you never saw one of the
sets, you never got rid of the tubes, I have several boxes of them.
Charlie Fox
Charles E. Fox Video Production
793 Argyle Rd.
Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8
519-254-4991 cfox1 at cogeco.ca