[Johnson] Valiant Smoke test

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I have a source for NOS plane jane 6146's made by amperex. I replaced all 
five of the tubes in my valiant with these, and after careful neautralization 
it worked GREAT!!   I had trouble neautralizing the 3 finals with the 'b' 
versions in there.

for whats its worth.

If anyone wants to know where I got them drop me an email and I'll 
let ya know. Prices were great too.

Ronnie

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:02:13 -0800 (PST), Glen Zook wrote
> Those are capacitors that are placed in parallel with
> a smaller variable capacitor for the purpose of
> antenna loading.  You should not have any problems
> going with the standard values available today.
> 
> I do not recommend replacing the 6146 / 6146A series
> in the Valiant with 6146B tubes.  You might get away
> with it and you might not.  The articles about the
> 6146 family that were in Electric Radio a couple of
> years ago and in the CCA bulletin earlier this year
> can be found on either of the websites that are listed
> at the end of this message.
> 
> Glen, K9STH
> 
> --- skip <k3cc@fast.net> wrote:
> 
> I can retrofit them with 160uuf and 360uuf I can't
> find 150 and 350 respectfully.
> 
> Is there advantage to replacing them with the 6146B.
> 
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