[V8] hot glass... NAC...

Dave Saad dsaad at icehouse.net
Tue Jan 8 20:04:28 PST 2008


What is the toxic part?


On Jan 8, 2008, at 8:50 PM, diemarthadie at aol.com wrote:

> I've got a 1960's 100w tube guitar head in the garage to rebuild  
> now... and a couple of Dynakit mono block amps and some other bits,  
> got a homebrew stereo 35w amp for the home system...and a half  
> dozen 1930-50's radios... Tube construction on a large scale has a  
> lot of toxic waste and isn't practical in the US and most of Europe  
> any longer.  You find a few small companies but the biggies are in  
> China and Russia now... no OSHA... The Sovtek and Svetlana tubes  
> are pretty decent and not too expensive, but look at the prices  
> people will pay for NOS American and British tubes on eBay...  
> scary.  The box of NOS tubes in my garage is worth more than my  
> whole V8 stash and car...
>
> I found that video fascinating as it showed the construction of the  
> pieces in a way that you could follow and really appreciate the  
> complexity of the finished piece even more.  Probably would be a  
> similar experience seeing old footage of a hand-built Rolls engine  
> in process...
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Saad <dsaad at icehouse.net>
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Sent: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:02 pm
> Subject: Re: [V8] hot glass... NAC...
>
> What a huge amount of equipment and skill it takes to make a triode -
>
> and I know they went up to at least pentodes - and probably more.
>
> I know people who still run old tube guitar amps and audio
>
> amplifiers. They swear by the sound but tubes are hard to come by. I
>
> guess now the Russians make some good ones.
>
>
>
> I still have an old Tektronix Oscilloscope made in the late 60s that
>
> is a work of art inside. It even works.
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Ingo Rautenberg wrote:
>
>
>
> > Absolutely fascinating.  I have a few pieces of audio equipment that
>
> > still use tubes.
>
> >
>
> > Thanks, John!
>
> >
>
> > On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:11 PM, diemarthadie at aol.com wrote:
>
> >
>
> >> I know there are a few listers out there that are into tube (or
>
> >> valve for you continentals) audio or ham radio... someone sent this
>
> >> link to me and it's pretty amazing.? A guy in France makes his own
>
> >> triode tubes and demos them - fascinating to watch and a silly
>
> >> amount of work in a lost art!
>
> >>
>
> >> http://paillard.claude.free.fr/
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> >>
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> >>
>
> >> john
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> >>  
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