[R-390] Tube testers

[Tracy Fort]

I have a better idea. Bring all your tube testers to my house. I'll sell
them on Ebay while you guys learn all about tubes from a book.

Tracy
KE4ODD

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On Behalf Of Joel Richey
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:40 PM
To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [R-390] Tube testers

Many years ago when I was a young shaver my father had a radio shop and =
when
I came home from school I looked forward to fixing radios, mostly the =
all
american 5, Kitchen radios, open filiments and once in awhile a really
challange, replacing a filter cap.  one day I got to the shop and there =
were
2 to be fixed the first one a Philco all the tubes were lit so I went to =
the
big Hicock tube tester and tested all of em, they all tested good, took =
the
rx outa the cabanit and grabed the voltmeter and check all plate and =
screen
voltage everything looked good, worked on that radio for 3 days, the 4th =
day
my Pop came up to me and handed me a box with a 12BE6 and said put this =
in
and I said I had checked all the tubes and their are all good, I put the
tube in and 45 seconds later it was playing, from that doay to this I =
would
not use a tube tester for anything, like the gentleman said  they are =
for
wimps, buy a book and learn how things work and take you tube tester to =
the
land fill, the fact the military uses  em should answer all your =
guestions.
Didn't mean to ramble on, but you get the picture..

Joe W2DBO

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