[Boatanchors] Eby tube sockets

[Jim Wiley]

Gang -


I am looking for a few Eby 5 or 6-pin tube sockets (6-pin preferred).  
These are surface mount sockets, popular in the 30's and 40's, and  
intended for "breadboard"  type sets.  Black Bakelite with a raised 
base, with the connection tabs extending radially from slots at the 
bottom of the socket.  These would fit tube bases like  the ones used on 
the 5-pin 807 or  the 6-pin 6D6.    If any of you out there  have any of 
these that you might consider selling (or trading, see below),  please 
contact me off list.


I am going to be working with some kids to build a few 1930's style 
regenerative receivers.  I have all the rest of the parts, including the 
necessary tubes, plug-in coil forms, dial drives, and so on.  The Eby 
style sockets are  the ones featured in the Alfred Morgan "Boy 
Electrician" book , and were used in the 1G4 regenerative  receiver 
presented therein.  In fact, that basic receiver design is what the kids 
will be building - that plus an additional 1A5 as an audio stage.  The 5 
or 6-pin sockets are needed to fit the coil forms.


I need about 12 sockets total - all one size or assorted, although even 
three or four would get us started. I don't need to get them all from 
all from one place either, one or two at a time works too.


I have a few extra of the Eby octal tube sockets, which I might consider 
as trades for the 5 or 6-pin variety, also some 140 pF Hammarlund 
MC-140M variable caps, and a few 1930's/1940's receiving tubes (ask for 
list).


Any help here would be appreciated.


- Jim, KL7CC