[Elecraft] One more on the "stupid" thread

[Mike Morrow]

Jim wrote:

>- Two lovely NOS 837 tubes, ready to sell. Neat-and-clean but not-perfectly-level
> workbench. Concrete basement floor. 
> 
>One lovely NOS 837 tube, ready to sell.

Well, at least it wasn't a 211, 25, 2A3, or some other vintage tube made rare only due to vacuum tube audiofool demand.

Fourty years ago, I zapped big-time my dad's Simpson 260 volt-ohm meter, having clipped the meter leads on to the the 2.5 vac output of a 110-to-2.5 volt transformer and then applying 120 vac...but unfortunately I had reversed the primary and secondary windings.  If the initial voltage application didn't kill the meter, the inductive surge that occured when I pulled the AC power would have.

73,
Mike / KK5F