[Milsurplus] Tube Riot!

William Donzelli wdonzelli at gmail.com
Sun Dec 31 19:33:06 EST 2006


I do not remember which old surplus dealer had "tube riots", but I am
stealing their marketting slogan.

Anyway, for the past few years I have offered bunches of tubes on the
boatanchors list on theporch.com. Well, that list is just about
stagnant, so time to move over to the milsurplus list.

The idea ia that I accumulate large numbers of tubes - way more than I
will ever need - so I make batches of like types and sell them for $20
a batch, shipping included. The tubes are almost all useful boatanchor
types (about half seem to be JAN or other US military stock, so
there). The general rule is that the tube must appear in the normal
edition of Sibley's Tube Lore, so this weeds out the useless TV series
string types and oddball junk. The piles are untested, unwashed,
unsorted mixes. From past years feedback, it seems that about ninety
percent test good. Yes, you might get a big handful of some types, and
not of others - it is a bit of a gamble, but from the past people seem
pleased.

So here they are:

Lot# / Approx Quantity / Types (what you might get, plus more!)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 / 90 / Miniatures (6AK5, 6AQ5, 6C4, 6J6, 6BH6, 6BA6, 6CL6)
2 / 60 / Premium Miniatures (6005, 5654, 5727, 6186, 6360, 8425)
3 / 50 / Loctals (7C5, 7F7, maybe some 14 volt types too)
4 / 50 / Metal Octal (6K6, 6SG7, 6SS7, 6SK7, 6F6, 12A6)
5 / 30 / Regulators (0A2, 0B2, 0C3, 0D3)

So pick what you want, maybe a couple of lots. After a few days I will
figure out who gets what (I will try to balance things out, and I can
probably fulfill a few each of lots 1, 2, 3 and 4). Please respond off
list.

--
Will


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