Seeking TV tubes

[Terry S]

Yes I know it seems odd, but I only want otherwise useless TV tubes to fill out the drawers in my Drug Store tube tester, see my previous postings on the restoration of this relic.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/rec.antiques.radio+phono/GmdPyPbt5xo

So I need a lot of tube numbers, probably a hundred or more. But before I start making lists and publishing them here, I want to test the waters in the NG.

I really don't want to pay much, in fact I'm hoping some of you will be willing to donate to the cause, or accept a small token amount in exchange for your stashes of oddball late era TV tubes. I would of course pay shipping.

I know some part numbers cross over to radio and may still have some value; I would not expect anyone to offer up useful tubes. I need very few of those anyway, as I've been saving those for years. But several years ago I purged almost all my so-called useless TV tubes from that era. Thousands.

The tester is circa 197x something and the tube charts in the cabinet drawers reflect that. I am trying to match the empty slots with the correctly numbered & BOXED tubes. Any brand, but in their correctly numbered boxes. Currently the drawers are about 25% occupied.

If a few people indicate willingness to help out, I'll go thru the exercise of compiling a list of the empty squares in the drawers. I'm not seeking charity, but I do hope some will see this as a good use for otherwise low value tubes.

Thanks in advance.

Terry

[Tom Biasi]

Post by Terry S
Yes I know it seems odd, but I only want otherwise useless TV tubes to fill out the drawers in my Drug Store tube tester, see my previous postings on the restoration of this relic.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/rec.antiques.radio+phono/GmdPyPbt5xo
So I need a lot of tube numbers, probably a hundred or more. But before I start making lists and publishing them here, I want to test the waters in the NG.
I really don't want to pay much, in fact I'm hoping some of you will be willing to donate to the cause, or accept a small token amount in exchange for your stashes of oddball late era TV tubes. I would of course pay shipping.
I know some part numbers cross over to radio and may still have some value; I would not expect anyone to offer up useful tubes. I need very few of those anyway, as I've been saving those for years. But several years ago I purged almost all my so-called useless TV tubes from that era. Thousands.
The tester is circa 197x something and the tube charts in the cabinet drawers reflect that. I am trying to match the empty slots with the correctly numbered & BOXED tubes. Any brand, but in their correctly numbered boxes. Currently the drawers are about 25% occupied.
If a few people indicate willingness to help out, I'll go thru the exercise of compiling a list of the empty squares in the drawers. I'm not seeking charity, but I do hope some will see this as a good use for otherwise low value tubes.
Thanks in advance.
Terry

Say what you want. I have a few boxes of them.

[Jim Mueller]

Post by Terry S
Yes I know it seems odd, but I only want otherwise useless TV tubes to
fill out the drawers in my Drug Store tube tester, see my previous
postings on the restoration of this relic.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/rec.antiques.radio+phono/

GmdPyPbt5xo

Post by Terry S
So I need a lot of tube numbers, probably a hundred or more. But before
I start making lists and publishing them here, I want to test the waters
in the NG.
I really don't want to pay much, in fact I'm hoping some of you will be
willing to donate to the cause, or accept a small token amount in
exchange for your stashes of oddball late era TV tubes. I would of
course pay shipping.
I know some part numbers cross over to radio and may still have some
value; I would not expect anyone to offer up useful tubes. I need very
few of those anyway, as I've been saving those for years. But several
years ago I purged almost all my so-called useless TV tubes from that
era. Thousands.
The tester is circa 197x something and the tube charts in the cabinet
drawers reflect that. I am trying to match the empty slots with the
correctly numbered & BOXED tubes. Any brand, but in their correctly
numbered boxes. Currently the drawers are about 25% occupied.
If a few people indicate willingness to help out, I'll go thru the
exercise of compiling a list of the empty squares in the drawers. I'm
not seeking charity, but I do hope some will see this as a good use for
otherwise low value tubes.
Thanks in advance.
Terry

Check out the hamfests in your area. I always find tubes like that
there. Prices vary; some people think that anything old is worth a
fortune, others charge a reasonable amount, still others give them away
especially if it is closing time and they don't want to take them home.

Good luck

[Peter Wieck]

Do you want them in OEM boxes? I probably have a few dozen-or-more for which I would have no conceivable use. Cost of shipping if that is what you want.

But, I agree on the hamfest thing.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

[Terry S]

Hi gents,

Thanks for the suggestions, I haven't been to a Ham Fest in quite a few years. The 3M Hamfest used to take place in a shopping center parking lot quite close to me, in fact I bought a few things there several years back.

Our radio club has a meeting this Saturday -

http://www.northlandantiqueradioclub.com/fall17.shtml

I will be attending with my tube list, which I now have compiled into a spreadsheet. Surprisingly it's over 315 line items long. There are many duplicates, but only where the tester case has duplicate slots for certain tubes. There are also several cases of dual marked slots (compatible tubes), and those increase the count as I logged both part numbers.

At first glance I never imagined the tester case would hold so many tubes, and bear in mind I've already filled about 25 or 30% of the slots.

I'd be happy to send my list to anyone interested in helping out and unloading some of these (mostly) TV tubes. I've also placed a copy on my Google Drive. Not sure if everyone can access that, let me know.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwUiE-766SEkN0otQk9pVGo0TmM

And yes, I'd prefer OEM boxed tubes as opposed to generic white boxes. It's all about the presentation :-)

Thanks

Terry

[Terry S]

Let's try this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwUiE-766SEkcVFSMExWN2plVXc/view?usp=sharing

Terry

[Tom Biasi]

Post by Terry S
Yes I know it seems odd, but I only want otherwise useless TV tubes to fill out the drawers in my Drug Store tube tester, see my previous postings on the restoration of this relic.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/rec.antiques.radio+phono/GmdPyPbt5xo
So I need a lot of tube numbers, probably a hundred or more. But before I start making lists and publishing them here, I want to test the waters in the NG.
I really don't want to pay much, in fact I'm hoping some of you will be willing to donate to the cause, or accept a small token amount in exchange for your stashes of oddball late era TV tubes. I would of course pay shipping.
I know some part numbers cross over to radio and may still have some value; I would not expect anyone to offer up useful tubes. I need very few of those anyway, as I've been saving those for years. But several years ago I purged almost all my so-called useless TV tubes from that era. Thousands.
The tester is circa 197x something and the tube charts in the cabinet drawers reflect that. I am trying to match the empty slots with the correctly numbered & BOXED tubes. Any brand, but in their correctly numbered boxes. Currently the drawers are about 25% occupied.
If a few people indicate willingness to help out, I'll go thru the exercise of compiling a list of the empty squares in the drawers. I'm not seeking charity, but I do hope some will see this as a good use for otherwise low value tubes.
Thanks in advance.
Terry

If its just for show couldn't you just use empty boxes?

[Terry S]

Yes, of course my thinking was correctly numbered boxes with tubes, but I have no objection to correctly numbered boxes without tubes as well.... which might be harder to come by than boxes with tubes! I don't want drawers full of generic white boxes with hand written numbers. It's just me, but I want it to look "right".

I randomly selected 2 numbers off the list just now -- one turned out to be a TV damper diode, the other a dual diode. It was just a small sanity check to make sure I wasn't asking for some pricey audiophool stuff. Turns out that some do use damper diode tubes as rectifiers in tube amps..... go figure.

I do appreciate the suggestion.

When I worked in the TV shop, there was a wall of new tubes. Usually each type was stored in a carton set up for 5 or 6 (that is the way the distributors liked to sell them) but typically only 1 or 2 tubes were in the carton. The boss hated to have any extras on hand. In lots of cases the cartons were just placeholders for tubes he'd probably sold the last one of years earlier.

Behind each carton was another carton of used tubes, came from scrapped sets, or in some cases customers sets.... sometimes tubes were swapped out during troubleshooting and not swapped back. There were also large bins of unsorted tubes, and yes, it's possible that once in a while one of those old dogs made it into a customer set.

Terry

Post by Tom Biasi
If its just for show couldn't you just use empty boxes?

[Tom Biasi]

Post by Terry S
Yes, of course my thinking was correctly numbered boxes with tubes, but I have no objection to correctly numbered boxes without tubes as well.... which might be harder to come by than boxes with tubes! I don't want drawers full of generic white boxes with hand written numbers. It's just me, but I want it to look "right".
I randomly selected 2 numbers off the list just now -- one turned out to be a TV damper diode, the other a dual diode. It was just a small sanity check to make sure I wasn't asking for some pricey audiophool stuff. Turns out that some do use damper diode tubes as rectifiers in tube amps..... go figure.

Many of the tubes on that list are valuable radio and amplifier tubes.

[Terry S]

Post by Tom Biasi
Many of the tubes on that list are valuable radio and amplifier tubes.

Please don't send tubes you know are useful or valuable -- I'd much rather you kept those and used them or sold them to finance the hobby. I really do only want slot fillers for the tube tester.

I'm not fluent on tube values at all -- primarily familiar with AA5 tubes and not much beyond that. I did check another dozen random part numbers and they looked like TV-only tubes, as far as I could tell.

Thanks to those of you who have already sent tubes, or are in the process of putting together a box to send. I think this is a better use for them than ending up in the trash. None will be sold.

Terry

[Peter Wieck]

On the subject of 'value', I have a number of weak tube, duds, open-filament and so forth that, if working, would be considered 'good'. Would these be acceptable? I can always find an OEM box for them.

This weekend will be the first unmortgaged weekend I have had since September, that is, if I do not have to help my neighbor install his boiler. I planning to to a search for Terry as part of Saturday.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

[Terry S]

Updated tube needed list. Under 100 tube slots left to fill.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwUiE-766SEkN0otQk9pVGo0TmM

Terry

[Terry S]

Post by Terry S
Updated tube needed list. Under 100 tube slots left to fill.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwUiE-766SEkN0otQk9pVGo0TmM
Terry

Make that: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwUiE-766SEkN0otQk9pVGo0TmM

[philo]

Post by Terry S
Yes I know it seems odd, but I only want otherwise useless TV tubes to fill out the drawers in my Drug Store tube tester, see my previous postings on the restoration of this relic.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/rec.antiques.radio+phono/GmdPyPbt5xo
So I need a lot of tube numbers, probably a hundred or more. But before I start making lists and publishing them here, I want to test the waters in the NG.
I really don't want to pay much, in fact I'm hoping some of you will be willing to donate to the cause, or accept a small token amount in exchange for your stashes of oddball late era TV tubes. I would of course pay shipping.
I know some part numbers cross over to radio and may still have some value; I would not expect anyone to offer up useful tubes. I need very few of those anyway, as I've been saving those for years. But several years ago I purged almost all my so-called useless TV tubes from that era. Thousands.
The tester is circa 197x something and the tube charts in the cabinet drawers reflect that. I am trying to match the empty slots with the correctly numbered & BOXED tubes. Any brand, but in their correctly numbered boxes. Currently the drawers are about 25% occupied.
If a few people indicate willingness to help out, I'll go thru the exercise of compiling a list of the empty squares in the drawers. I'm not seeking charity, but I do hope some will see this as a good use for otherwise low value tubes.
Thanks in advance.
Terry

Since I don't check in here all the time, email me a list of any you
need and I can look up in my attic.

All I would need is the price of postage.


It's not too likely I'll ever again need any television tubes, all I
work on is radios and amplifiers



gmail addy philo565

[Terry S]

Thanks to some generous contributions by a few members here and another couple groups I frequent, my "needed" list is down to near 50 tube numbers.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iVIMQ8KNmz7R7OM0EG8gRIvhXHG17kur

I'm looking for numbered, branded boxes with or without tubes, I'll pay postage plus a nominal finders' fee for helping me fill out the Seco drugstore tube tester slots. Most of these tubes (AFAICT) are otherwise low value TV specific tubes.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/***@N02/albums/72157674341385913

Thanks -- reply here or direct tschw10117 AT aoldotcom

[Terry S]

Another round of "donations" came in, so here is the remaining tubes-needed list:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DtdgOvIt_xiGNHTznJnN7PcEZr1qMR9Z

Down to about 35 part numbers!

Terry