14 Mar
2013
14 Mar
'13
12:41 a.m.
At 7:10 PM -0400 3/13/13, William Donzelli wrote:
I want to thank everyone for the answers!
It sounds like the safest place for them in the long term will be the Attic.
What I have right now are most likely pulls. What I will get at some
point in the future, who knows, but I suspect they might have come
out of Tektronix. I'm hopeful though that ones will be found that
are suitable for Audio applications, as I suspect that is what they
were collected for. In the lot that I'll get at some point in the
future is a very, very clean nice Heathkit tube tester, that has
always been kept in the house.
Basically my interest in Tubes is limited to Audio. I love Tube
Based stereo's, and at some point in the future I hope to have a
*good* tube Amp to hook up to my Rega turntable!
Zane
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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.
Temperature extremes are really not a problem, simply because they are
made for such extremes during normal operation. Moisture can be a
problem in extreme cases, but normally not much of an issue either -
mostly the boxes suffer (and metal tubes, I suppose). The only thing
that really is bad for tubes is salt spray. Don't store your tubes in
a seaside shack.