29 Aug
2008
29 Aug
'08
2:42 p.m.
On 29 Aug 2008 at 15:26, William Donzelli wrote:
Cheap ass hams (that is, 90 percent of them) would run
a 10 WAY beyond
what they were made to do, so they cut the sockets (and tube bases) so
they would not burn up due to high voltages. Sometimes you can find a
10 (or other triode) that has not been cut, yet the plastic of the
base is all bubbly from the leakage.
Heh. It was the spendthrifts who splurged on a 6V pilot lamp as a
plate current indicator. The rest of us just tuned for the least
amount of orange glow from the plate. :) Ah, for the days of
building CW transmitters from a junker TV chassis.
There were various power tubes (6L6G's included) that could be had
with ceramic bases.
Cheers,
Chuck