Vacuum tubes.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

[Heidi]

1. Other.

My vacuum tube is completely clogged with cat hair. : weep:

[kentauros]

24. My apartment neighbor and handyman cleaned my carpets last week.

I asked him before hand if I should vacuum, and he said no. So, I went out until he was done. I came back to him complaining to me about all the cat hair clogging his hot-water cleaning vacuum. I reminded him that I offered to vacuum first and that shut him up ;)

[mitchum]

2. I've got some glowing right beside me right now

fuck all that solid state noise

love,
mitchum the gearsnob

[TrogL]

3. I've got a short wave radio receiver and a CB transmitter

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Oh my. The thrill of listening to a radio station that's playing...

...in ANOTHER CONTINENT! Gasp! Hey, what's this? SOVIET PROPAGANDA! Amazing!

[mitchum]

26. I scored a 1958 Zenith Transoceanic SW a couple of months back

Granted, it's transistor, and not tube,but it is in immaculate shape. Best $2 I have ever spent. Having a lot of fun with it; had been a long time since I listened to shortwave broadcasts.

[hobbit709]

5. If there's ever a massive EMP

my vacuum tube equipment will still work.

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. This of course is exactly why AWACs only use miniature valves instead of solid-state componentry.

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[Brickbat]

7. We're about to turn our marriage into a threesome:

Me, Mr. Brickbat, and Svetlana:

[Magrittes Pipe]

21. Ah, the sweet blue glow of winged C 6L6s.

I think Svetlanas and Tung Sols are the only power tubes that do that when they're not fucked up. Pretty.

[Old Troop]

8. Remember the machine they used to have in drug stores and hardware

stores that you used to test your vacuum tubes? To a 10 year old kid in the early sixties it looked like Buck Rogers stuff.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Saw many of those

But in Brazil they were all at specialized electronics shops. The ones I would eagerly run into with schematics, parts lists, and allowance.

(Tube testers in drugstores?)

[Old Troop]

11. Well, by the sixties, drugstores (at least in MA) sold a little of everything.

[mitchum]

18. I still ran into tube testers in drugstores until about 1985 or so...

unfortunately, local specialized electronics shops are almost extinct now. When I was growing up, there were a half dozen in town (and that's not counting the Rat Shacks)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. There's still one street in Rio and one in São Paulo that are chock full of those.

Respectively, Rua República do Líbano and Rua Santa Ifigênia.

[pokerfan]

10. Knowing how vacuum tubes worked

made it easier to understand the Field Effect Transistor.

[MajorChode]

12. I worked on vacuum tube electronics for years

I wasn't sorry to see them go. However, I do wish I had kept one of the really big ones and made a lamp out of it.

[guitar man]

13. I have a few things with vacuum tubes

But then again, I play electric guitar so that's perfectly normal :P

[Call Me Wesley]

14. I like mine:

My Uke now really sounds good! ;)

[Magrittes Pipe]

19. JESUS FUCK!

Careful 'round those filter caps, buddy. ;)

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet amps.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. Those big-ass cylinders are electrolytic capacitors?

If so, there should be a waiting list and background check for them. :wow:

[ChoralScholar]

15. I used to have a tube guitar amp. Best I can remember

it picked up truckers passing by on the freeway.

[Kat45]

17. There were lots of them in our basement.

My father used to be a TV and radio repairman.

[Magrittes Pipe]

20. Nothing in this world can't be cured by 12AX7s driving 6L6s.

[mitchum]

25. What MP so warmly said

I have a longtime addiction to that smell put off by heated tubes. The memories.
It's like Proust or something.

[Iggo]

27. Matchless 2x12. (n/t)

[The Midway Rebel]

28. '70 Fender Quad Reverb

Once owned by Hound Dog Taylor. Amp voted best backline/open mic amp and amp least likely to be stolen because it is too gotdang heavy and bulky to move by your average crack head.

[MiddleFingerMom]

29. How many times do I have to tell you?!?!?!?!?!?

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[cyberswede]

30. I have tubes in something like this

1938 Philco radio - works great. AM and Short Wave - the dial displays SW stations from Berlin, London, etc. I bought it at a tag sale, and when I got it home, I found the delivery slip inside - it was delivered in 1938 to the house where I bought it - I'm only the second owner. :)



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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

31. I think I soiled my pants.

:wow:

Two questions:
1) How much did you pay?
2) What do you get on SW? IS there any match to the old stations on the dial?

[Tabasco_Dave]

32. If you want the best sound from a electric guitar

you use a tube amp.:headbang:

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

33. Other: I'm planning to buy something with vacuum tubes.

I have my sights set on a Mesa/Boogie Single Rectifier.... :headbang:

Since we're on the subject:
In the Futurama episode "Love and Rocket" Bender directly connects himself with the Planet Express Ship's AI (who he was dating), and after he is digitized into a virtual world he sees vacuum tubes in the background and says "Tubes? You're older than you said you were!"
On the commentary track, they talk about the kid who drew the background, who, after reading 'tubes' in the description, drew a bunch of pipes. They then had to explain what tubes were, because he was too young to know... :rofl: