[Boatanchors] newbie question

[Tom Chesek]

I agree.  First use the tube tester to rule out a obvious bad tube then 
proceed to do the more tedious task of checking other circuit components. 
If after that process you don't find a failure then source replacements 
tubes to test the circuit with.

Tom K3TVC



-----Original Message----- 
From: Bob Macklin
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 11:38 AM
To: Glen Zook ; Bill Cromwell ; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] newbie question

THE PROBLEM I see is getting a stock of replacement tubes. And there is no 
longer a local drug store to run to to buy tubes.

My position is that for a person that does not have a supply of replacement 
tubes available a tube tester is something to consider.

In the past 10 years my Heathkit TC-3 has only found one bad tube. But it 
has helped me to determine I did not have a tube problem.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"