[Hallicrafters] Tube tester question.

[Gerry Steffens]

Waldo,

I have two 6000 testers and one 6000A.  The 6000A does not have a 4 pin
socket.  The 6000 units have all the old sockets (4,5,6 &7).

You can use the old tube listings from the 6000 and make your own adapter.
Take a bad octal tube and break out all the glass and other material.  Then
wire a 4 pin socket into pins 1 through 4 on the octal tube socket and glue
the 4 pin into the top of the octal.  Presto - a 4 pin adapter.

You can do the same for 5, 6, and 7 pin sockets and test most anything.  I
have and it works fine.

Be advised, that the red socket sub-chassis from the 6000 with the old
sockets shows up on the unmentionable place.  They are not interchangeable
between the 6000 & 6000A!  They have a different number of pins on the plug
and socket below the chassis.  Twelve for the 6000 and thirteen for the
6000A as I remember.

If you should need old listings, I think have a listing on regular paper
that I can throw through a copier.  You probably want the obsolete listing
if you don't have it to test your old tubes, which I can copy also.

Good luck and happy testing.

Cheers,

Gerry


Collecting & Restoring since the 60s
Gerald Steffens P.E.
Oronoco, MN


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[mailto:hallicrafters-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Waldo Magnuson
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 10:32 PM
To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
Cc: Waldo Magnuson
Subject: [Hallicrafters] Tube tester question.

    This is a related Hallicrafters question.  My Hallicrafters DD-1 is 
operating except for the last section - the audio output stage.  I 
would like to test the push-pull output tubes (2A3) which are 4-pin 
glass triode tubes.  My tube tester is a Hickok 6000A which does not 
have a 4-pin plug-in - however there is a bung-plug in the upper left 
corner where tubes are plugged into the tester.  My question is, for 
those who may have 6000A testers, does your tester have a 4-pin socket?
    By the way, the DD-1 seems to be very sensitive on the broadcast 
band which is the only band I've tested.

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