[R-390] 26Z5 tubes

[Richard Loken]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Barry Hauser wrote:

> Either somebody better take up glass blowing, or break out the silicon
> diodes, like Les says. Unless you can find some used 26Z5W's - with some
> tread left on 'em.  I suppose they would only cost around $10-15?

The news only gets worse.  The 26Z5's are not that hard to toast when you
are restoring a receiver.  I recommend becoming at least a partial witch and
using solid state subs until the radio is fully restored and then put the 
revered 26Z5's back in but keep a pair of spares on hand (not one spare, two
spares...)

I have a pair on NIB 26Z5's around here that I bought from Fair for a fair
price some five years ago.  Guess I will use them to pay for a year of my
retirement in a decade or two.  :)

6082's on the other hand...  I would not mind finding at least two of those
under a table some place.  It would be worth while to design a solid state
regulator for the R390 and put those hot and uncommon 6082's on a shelf.
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   Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS  
   Athabasca University
   Athabasca, Alberta Canada
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