[Boatanchors] LOOKING FOR FEW PARTS & TUBES

[Gerry Steffens]

Well I found a reference:

http://www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/frank/short/054/5/501.pdf

The 6E5GT is an international type that is indeed a 6.3 volt octal tube, =
not
the same as an American 6E5.  It looks like a 6X6 is in the picture too, =
but
I haven't quite figured out how to read this reference.
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Paste the above link into your browser and good luck.

Gerry


Collecting & Restoring since 1959
Gerald Steffens P.E.
Oronoco, MN


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From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WA5CAB at cs.com
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 11:24 PM
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] LOOKING FOR FEW PARTS & TUBES

I thought I had some 6U5GT's but turned out they were all 6U6GT (a 6V6GT =

lookalike).

But to correct a previous statement, GT doesn't mean octal base, =
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most if not all of the tubes that it applies to are.  It defines the =
shape
of the=20
glass bulb as being straight (parallel) sided to differentiate the =
earlier G

bulb, which flares out from bottom to near the top.  Octal tubes with=20
nomenclatures without any alpha suffix are metal octals.  Then came the
glass G's,=20
then the smaller GT's and finally alphabet soup.  Some metal octals have
alpha=20
suffixes, but none beginning with "G".  Some octal tubes first appeared =
as
G's=20
(like the 5U4G) and some as GT's (like the 6SL7GT and 6SN7GT).  In which
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there is no metal version.  So if there is (and I'm sure, despite =
Jacks's=20
wife's comments) that if he says he has one there is, an octal 6 volt =
magic
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tube, it has to have a G or GT suffix.  Be difficult to see the eye
otherwise! =20

Wonder what the extra element might be in a 6X6GT?

In a message dated 3/4/2006 10:56:35 PM Central Standard Time,=20
gsteffens at pitel.net writes:=20
> I checked my foreign manuals and find no 6U5, GT or other wise =
(doesn't=20
> mean
> there isn't one however) but I note there is a 6X6 eye tube that =
appears
to
> have an octal base listed (at least as far as tubes with conventional =
tube
> designation: voltage, letters, number of elements).  There might be =
others
> in the lettered designation.
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> Cheers,
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> Gerry
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> Collecting &Restoring since 1959
> Gerald Steffens P.E.
> Oronoco, MN
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of =
k0ewu at juno.com
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 10:27 PM
> To: gsteffens at pitel.net
> Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV;
> Johnson at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] LOOKING FOR FEW PARTS &TUBES
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> HI ALL, there is a 6U5gt, has an octal base, an english tube I think. =
I
> do have one of those in my collection, check with Jim Cross in =
Orlando.
> This is the only 6v eye with an octal base that I know of, can be =
wrong,
> usually am wife sez.
> old jack
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