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11-08-2012, 08:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Redding CA | | | found boxes of tubes, what should I look for?
I had posted a pic of two boxes of tubes I found in the top of my shop (been "lost" there for many years). The previous owner has been dead for years, and these were in the back corner of the attic.
so what tubes should I watch for? I do not build old amps, and have no idea what I am looking at. It was suggested, on another section, that I post these here
this is not even all of them. Many are in their original boxes 
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11-08-2012, 09:04 PM
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11-08-2012, 09:07 PM
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11-08-2012, 09:08 PM
| | | | Keep them all. There's the common ones that most tube amp companies use, and then there are all the esoteric ones that Ampeg uses. |
11-08-2012, 09:22 PM
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11-08-2012, 09:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | | Great find! Congrats! I got a little box from my electronics school the other day. Just organize and google them when you get a chance. It's a good rainy day project.
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11-08-2012, 09:52 PM
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Clean the dust off them, but don't rub off any labeling.
Sort them by type. 6v6, 6sl7, el84, etc.
Get ahold of a tester, or somebody who has one and knows how to use it.
Inventory. |
11-08-2012, 09:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Redding CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by will33  Awesome!!!
Clean the dust off them, but don't rub off any labeling.
Sort them by type. 6v6, 6sl7, el84, etc.
Get ahold of a tester, or somebody who has one and knows how to use it.
Inventory. | the 6V6 number I recognize. I have quite a few of them.
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11-08-2012, 09:59 PM
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11-08-2012, 10:01 PM
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11-08-2012, 10:18 PM
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11-08-2012, 10:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: austin,tx | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee H the 6V6 number I recognize. I have quite a few of them. | Commonly used in the Fender Champ, Princeton and Deluxe.
Just google or wikipedia every different model you have there. Don't let somebody offer you what you may think is good money for the whole box, only to find out you had some gems.
And of course, play some amps that use them. Yes, even with a guitar.   |
11-09-2012, 06:33 AM
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If you have any good working order 6386 or VF14's you might be a good deal more socially secure.
Other than that Gec KT88, 2a3, 12ax7, EL34, 6l6, 6j7 are all readily saleable. 
I just found you a price for a VF14 if its good $1500
and if its a VF14 with an M written on the end cap
eBay sold one for $1800 not so long ago, Its a steel envelope pentode and fits in the classic Neumann U47 microphone.
Among other things.
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11-09-2012, 07:03 AM
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11-09-2012, 07:35 AM
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11-09-2012, 07:40 AM
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11-09-2012, 07:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: georgia....georgia........geor | | | Looks like a bunch of old radio tubes. Probably a few audio tubes in there, but most will not be the types found in guitar or bass amps. If you have any #45 or 2A3 tubes, those are worth good dough.
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11-09-2012, 09:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Redding CA | | | in another box I found old metal phonograph needle heads, an mic stuff. I have a friend who is into the old phonographs, so he gets a "donation" ...that kind of means he has to go through everything, and he has to dispose of all the junk...LOL
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11-09-2012, 10:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: austin,tx | | | Just a quick-n-dirty if you want to weed out some of the ones most commonly used in musical instrument amplimafiers.
Power tubes: 6550, 6L6, 6V6, el84, el34
Preamp/driver tubes: 12ax7, 12at7, 12au7, 6SL7, 6SN7
Rectifier: 5AR4
As stated earlier, you may have some for microphones, compressors or other studio gear and radios of all types.
Also search up a cross-reference chart. Many of those will have military spec equivalents that will have a different numbering system. |
11-09-2012, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by will33 As stated earlier, you may have some for microphones, compressors or other studio gear and radios of all types.
Also search up a cross-reference chart. Many of those will have military spec equivalents that will have a different numbering system. | this is a good idea, I've heard that the US, the UK, and the russians have all had different numbers for corresponding tubes, eg the 12AX7/6SL7 I think.
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