[R-390] Re: a real howler I must confess

[Transmaster]

Oh really, I wonder if this mod' would work on an 51J3 Collins, mmmmm.

Ken

On 3/9/07, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 9 Mar 2007 at 1:38, Transmaster wrote:
>
> > I have a bunch EE88
>
> ECC88
>
> > something or another tubes which are brand new in
> > their original boxes.they where manufactured in Germany. and have gold
> > pins,  I understand they are prime tubes to audiofools and go for up
> > wards of 100 bucks each. I have about 20 of these things.  I have
> > thought about selling them but then I wouldn't have them so they will
> > remain in the tube stash.
>
> Those are the European equivalent of a 6ES8 which is a premium
> remote cutoff dual triode. I think they are the only remote cutoff dual-
> triode that was ever made.
>
> There is a mod for the 75A4 to change the first mixer to a Pullen type
> using one of those tubes that is supposed to make a really big
> difference in both sensitivity and overload characteristics.
>
> Written about in ER a while back.
>
> Ken Gordon W7EKB
>


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