[Milsurplus] Advice: LS-50 German Tube - correction

[Hue Miller]

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From: <wf2u at starband.net>

> Some restorers use the GU-50 to substitute for the LS-50 by reworking the
> socket, I found an article how to do it.

What's this involve, filing out the socket pins?
Do you think it structurally weakens the socket?
I refuse to pay escalated prices for tubes that are non-magic,
merely in short supply, and not even guaranteed to be good.
I had been wondering what to do about the LS-50.
Tnx- Hue Miller