13 Mar
2013
13 Mar
'13
10:06 p.m.
On 2013 Mar 13, at 4:08 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.
If you have too many of them, here's an alternate use (shameless self-
reference):
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/radio/vtm/index.html
The reality is most receiving tubes are next-to-worthless. Of all the
tubes floating around still, there's a portion that are of interest
to radio restorers; a small set of types of interest to audiophiles;
and piles and piles of what I call TV-junk - types made for TVs in
the 50/60s for which there is little demand. Sometimes the
audiophiles find a novel new way to use some type and it might see a
spike in interest.