[Boatanchors] Tube tongs

[jmfranke]

Another biting remark!

John  WA4WDL

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From: "Howard Weinstein" <k3hw at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:06 AM
To: <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>; <kf4nsradio at verizon.net>; 
<WQ9E at btsnetworks.net>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Tube tongs

> I have burned my fingers on a hot vacuum tube several times. I find it 
> safer and more convenient to use my teeth for tube extraction. Thank you 
> de Howie K3HW
>
> --- On Sun, 10/17/10, WQ9E at btsnetworks.net <WQ9E at btsnetworks.net> wrote:
>
>> From: WQ9E at btsnetworks.net <WQ9E at btsnetworks.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Tube tongs
>> To: ranchorobbo at gmail.com, kf4nsradio at verizon.net
>> Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Sunday, October 17, 2010, 11:37 PM
>> Rob's leather glove idea is a good
>> one for hot tubes AND also for tubes that are difficult to
>> remove. When I was a young novice I remember one of
>> the old timers came to a club meeting with a heavily
>> bandaged hand. He had cut it trying to wrestle the 7F8
>> "loctal" osc/mixer tube out of his Hallicrafters
>> SX-62. He squeezed on the tube hard enough to break
>> the glass envelope and did further damage jerking his hand
>> back and hitting the side of the receiver case. That
>> made a big impression on me because the SX-62 was my first
>> "real" receiver and I had one at the time.
>>
>> Rodger WQ9E
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> From: Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 10:26 PM
>> To: Dick KF4NS <kf4nsradio at verizon.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Tube tongs
>>
>> maybe you can put on a leather glove, the type that has
>> cotton lining inside
>> and pull the hot one with that--be ready to plug it in to
>> the tube tester
>> right away and you won't handle it very long.
>>
>> I'd be afraid I'd grip it too tight with the tong and break
>> it.
>>
>> I got the glove idea from wearing leather work gloves to
>> pull a hot oil
>> filter that was right under an exhaust manifold and I
>> didn't want to get
>> burned by the manifold.
>>
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Dick KF4NS wrote:
>>
>> > Ken, I misplaced mine a while back and had to resort
>> to stealing
>> > (borrowing) the ones my wife used in the kitchen (they
>> are very cheap
>> > at Big Lots), and dipping the TIPS in PLASTI DIP. Boy,
>> that stuff has
>> > come in handy so many times I could not tell you.
>> >
>> > Good luck and 73, Dick KF4NS
>> > St Petersburg, FL 33714 USA
>> > Keep The Glow!
>> >
>> >
>> > ------------------------------
>> >
>> > Message: 3
>> > Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:42:32 -0500
>> > From: "Ken"
>> > Subject: [Boatanchors] Tube tongs.
>> > To: ,
>> > Message-ID:
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> >
>> > Hi Fellows,
>> >
>> > I am need of a pair of tube tongs - yep, the things
>> used to pull hot
>> > vacuum tubes out of their sockets
>> >
>> > to test while at operating temperature (the most
>> accurate test).
>> >
>> > I have a pair but I cannot find!
>> >
>> > If you have gone solid state and will no longer need
>> your pair, please
>> > make them available to me!
>> >
>> > Take care,
>> >
>> > Ken N5CM
>
>
>
>
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