Vacuum Tubes

[sellersm]

Here are 2 more: https://www.tubedepot.com/

And locally, a guy known on the internet as LordValve, excellent resource, can seem a bit crotchety:
NBS Electronics
230 South Broadway
Denver, CO
(303) 778-1156

[cofi]

Ya mean like this amp I built? Take a look on Audiokarma.org.

WOW Jerry can we get some details?

[Great-Kazoo]

Too bad Fistells closed. Mark, his sister and father ran one of the most comprehensive electronic stores in the country. You needed a tube for 1948 victrola, they had them NIB.
http://www.fistells.com/

[Ah Pook]

There is a place on Broadway called pack rat antiques that usually has some order stuff. The guy that owns it is the crankiest old bastard I have ever met and will yell at you if you want to use a card or if you take your phone out of your pocket, but he has some cool stuff.

And locally, a guy known on the internet as LordValve, excellent resource, can seem a bit crotchety:
NBS Electronics
230 South Broadway
Denver, CO
(303) 778-1156

Same guy?

Ya mean like this amp I built? Take a look on Audiokarma.org.

Pretty!

Been going to Audiokarma, Head-Fi and Tubes Asylum.

THAT's IT!

You are OFF my "preferred trading post people list" !!!!!!

[jerrymrc]

WOW Jerry can we get some details?

50's Magnavox console amp that was gutted and rebuilt. 6V6 PP for 15 watts or so. I had a great time doing it and want to do another. I did have many mods and sounded very nice. Seem to have a knack for this stuff since I traded it for an amp from my past that in my mind was worth a bunch more.

[J]

Someone needs to tell these guys about this crazy new invention... the "Transistor"....


See it turns out you can take something called a substrate, made out of things like silicon or germanium... then you can dope it with focused energy, and through quantum mechanics and a tunneling electron phenomenon you can have this magical device. It works kind of like a couple of vacuum tubes put together, costs a fraction to purchase, and has a factor of 1000 greater noise, environment and power fluctuation resistance.

[jerrymrc]

Someone needs to tell these guys about this crazy new invention... the "Transistor"....


See it turns out you can take something called a substrate, made out of things like silicon or germanium... then you can dope it with focused energy, and through quantum mechanics and a tunneling electron phenomenon you can have this magical device. It works kind of like a couple of vacuum tubes put together, costs a fraction to purchase, and has a factor of 1000 greater noise, environment and power fluctuation resistance.

Ya don't get it. Just saying.

[Eric P]

I have to admit, I was going to say go to sears or other place that sells vacuums and see if they sell the hoses. Never have I seen or heard of using these types of tubes. Why would you use them?

[roberth]

Tubes are beauty for classical music. Rock n' Roll is more of a transistor thing.

I found a couple of bags of tubes at Brass Armadillo, my friend bought them all. Maybe check antique row on South Broadway.

[Gman]

I remember when our TV would quit. Dad would get out a pencil and masking tape. He'd label each tube and receptacle, and then take out all the tubes and put them in a brown paper bag. We'd go down to the grocery store where they had a tube kiosk. You'd pop the tube into the tester. If it was good, that one went back in the bag to go back home. When you found the bad one, you read the number on the tube and would grab the box with the same number out of the kiosk and check out. Go back home and put all of the tubes back in and had a working TV again.