Yow!$

[Reeltarded]

Bob S. getting hold of a crate full of them and throwing them like grenades.

Anytime you are smelting metals you are going to have outgassing, Imthink mercury tungsten and zinc are the major culprits? Like I give a crap. I wanna rock!

[Bob S]

Embarrassing - unbelievably dumb.
Even for me.

[Firestorm]

The seller's name got me going: there's a lot of "Klang" in the Euro tube business (like "Klangfilm.) My name is Klang, but it's a 17th century Swedish soldier name, so there are no familial connections to anyone else with the same name. But I got a kick out of seeing it. If only I had set a master case of those tubes aside...

[Reeltarded]

It's ok Bob! JJs sound just as good as xf2s, even if they do cost a little more..

rofl

[Structo]

Yeah, I think they use dangerous chemicals and metals.

I know when I watched a video about it they use some dangerous solvents to clean parts.

Seems like the cathode coating was also something hazardous.

I don't think any mass production would be allowed given current EPA rules.

But there are a couple companies that I believe make small batches, like 300B tubes.

I hate to confess this but when I was a kid it was fun to take vacuum tubes and toss them like grenades and they would implode on impact.
Hopefully I didn't ruin any good ones.
I think they were bad tubes that my dad had pulled.

There has got to be a warehouse or two with yet undiscovered tube caches left, ya think?
Imagine finding stacks of boxes full of RCA 6L6's. or 12AX7's.

What about all those JAN tubes.
They made those into the early 80's didn't they?

[Reeltarded]

In the 80s I went to look at a 66 Mustang and the guy had a 2 car garage full of tubes in soap barrels. Thousands and thousands. I bought every 12ax7 and EL34 I could fit in my car and a Tung-Sol tech box full of NOS goodies.. which is somewhere in my garage covered up by other crap I bought.

Irony. One man's trash is another man's... trash.

[Firestorm]

Yeah, I think they use dangerous chemicals and metals.

I know when I watched a video about it they use some dangerous solvents to clean parts.

Seems like the cathode coating was also something hazardous.

I don't think any mass production would be allowed given current EPA rules.

That's one the reasons the Sovtek Saratov factory was such an attractive and contested property. As a former government (Soviet) endeavour, it has pipelines feeding it all sorts of noxious things you need to make tubes. I think it's mostly the cathodes that cause concern (thoriated tungsten and the like). Heaters have to sit in acid for awhile, too, IIRC.

Run one these in California? Ha!