[R-390] OT: HP-410B Tubes
Barry Williams
ba.williams at charter.net
Wed Mar 2 18:04:26 EST 2011
Joe had the inside scoop with someone to do that actual etching for a
pretty fair price at first. I did the line drawings, but the scale was
just too small to etch at that time. It was maybe postage stamp sized,
The interest in getting the lighters was there among members.
It's good to see you back.
As you already know, nobody can speak for Joe. Otoh, nobody speaks like
Joe either. *g*
Flight of the Phenix????
one of the Barrys
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Barry Williams<ba.williams at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> Yes, the Zippo lighter method. Zippo'ed, not butaned according to Nolan.
>> He took that to an almost exact science. I had almost forgotten this.
>
> And let's not forget the special edition Zippo lighters that a certain
> beehive kicker whose name I won't mention (but his initials are Joe
> Foley) was working on getting made for those who wanted to pursue this
> approach. The hang up came in getting the R-390A front panel drawing
> transferred into an etching on the lighter body, as I recall.
>
> "No no, doctor - he's fine, really. You don't have any bees around
> here, do you?"
>
> I've had about the as much luck with the Zippo method as with jacking
> up the heater voltage on the tube tester for a period of time.
> Sometimes the gas goes away, emission increases, and other times
> nothing happens. Always figured, what's to lose, if the tube is gonna
> to be tossed anyhow? We learn by doing, as crazy as some of these
> ideas may sound at first.
>
> de Todd/'Boomer' KA1KAQ/4
>
> (couldn't resist giving Foley a poke!)
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