[ARC5] Tube Testers

David Rossetti drossetti at comcast.net
Sun Mar 17 09:00:36 EDT 2019


RCA's last Tube Tester, 1957, was the WT-110A. It used punch cards, and unlike the Hickok Cardmatic, it used a lever instead of a punch nob to engage the card.

Dave Rossetti

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On Mar 16, 2019 6:45 PM, jeepp <jeepp at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Card-matic? Yep, we had one in our AF avionics shop. We also had TV-2's. What we used was a TV-7 hold over from when the squadron had F-86's. It worked and gave reliable info. The TV-2's were laborious to use. I've thought about one for nostalgia but my TV-7A and D do yoeman service.
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> 
> Date: 3/16/19 18:01 (GMT-05:00) 
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Tube Testers 
>
> Anyone remember that RCA tube tester that used
> punched 
> cards to set it up? You selected a card and
> inserted 
> it into a slot, making all the connections. If
> you 
> have one of these, you need a few gallons of
> De-Ox-It
> in reserve to keep the thing sort-of working. 
> I had one once and passed it along in short
> order. 
> 73 Dave S.
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