[ARC5] BC-230 / -430 "Four Pin Tube Bases" Not Needed.

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How about banana plugs? Are they a good fit in the 4-pin sockets?

73 de Neil ZL1ANM

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:35 PM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> I started-out using 4-pin tube bases for mounting 6AQ5 or 5763 but later
> determined this was not needed.
> I wrote about this awhile back:
>
> I didn't have four more old 4-pin bases for the 5763s
> and besides- I didn't like the "sloppy" of using them,
> so I wired the 9-pin 5763 sockets with "pigtails"
> which I fed through the 4-pin socket holes and soldered
> directly onto the connection points:
> http://home.netcom.com/~arc5/SCR-183/5763s.JPG
>
> If you wire the "modern" tube socket carefully, you can
> end-up with the pigtails just where you need to feed them
> through the 4-pin socket holes.
> For instance- here's how to wire the 5763 sockets:
> http://home.netcom.com/~arc5/SCR-183/sockets.jpg
> and, once the pigtails are fed-through the 4-pin socket holes
> and settled tight to the deck, here's how they're soldered:
> http://home.netcom.com/~arc5/SCR-183/soldered.JPG
>
> 73 Dave AB5S
>
>
>
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