Porn and the Art of Vacuum Tube Fabrication

Nordic · 1st September 2008, 09:20 PM

Watch out, this video of Claude Paillard hand-crafting vacuum tubes with a Swiss Army knife and a blowtorch is going to eat up 17 minutes of your life. It’s hypnotizing, like all the best porn. Great soundtrack, too. (Via Slashdot)

http://mxrk.net/home/2008/1/9/porn-a...brication.html

eeka chu · 2nd September 2008, 06:55 PM

I have seen this, but it is fun to rewatch. When I have the super garage and lab setup I'm still dreaming of, I'll give it a whirl.

I have wondered how ghetto you could make it. I've seen people making rectifiers and triodes with old lightbulbs and epoxy. I have always wanted to try to build an guitar amp entire from stuff I find around the house - transformers wound on bolts and capacitors made from kitchen foil or jam jars.

I'd rather watch this than a lot of hollywood porn, it has to be fairly intense for this man

tomtt · 4th September 2008, 04:15 AM

thanks for posting this video. link.

GAgola · 11th September 2008, 05:31 AM

Quite something eh!

I am watching it over and over, and really wish I could share it with some friends who have no internet connection.

Forgive my naivette in these arts, but at which point (min:sec) does the artist evacuate the tube of air? I rather expected the heated parts of the bulb to collapse/suck inwards at the point of heating?, and what kind of vacuum equipment does it take to do that kind of stuff?

GAgola

Nordic · 12th September 2008, 03:58 PM

You will see him switch on a machine that has a high pitched noise, and a dail on the front showing the vacuum level...

the vacuum gets sucked through that straw at the end, which is then melted off and seals the whole thing..

1st September 2008, 09:20 PM	#1
Nordic diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2005	Porn and the Art of Vacuum Tube Fabrication Watch out, this video of Claude Paillard hand-crafting vacuum tubes with a Swiss Army knife and a blowtorch is going to eat up 17 minutes of your life. It’s hypnotizing, like all the best porn. Great soundtrack, too. (Via Slashdot) http://mxrk.net/home/2008/1/9/porn-a...brication.html

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2nd September 2008, 06:55 PM	#2
eeka chu diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: England	I have seen this, but it is fun to rewatch. When I have the super garage and lab setup I'm still dreaming of, I'll give it a whirl. I have wondered how ghetto you could make it. I've seen people making rectifiers and triodes with old lightbulbs and epoxy. I have always wanted to try to build an guitar amp entire from stuff I find around the house - transformers wound on bolts and capacitors made from kitchen foil or jam jars. I'd rather watch this than a lot of hollywood porn, it has to be fairly intense for this man

4th September 2008, 04:15 AM	#3
tomtt diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: kansas city mo, and on occasion, ditches around the world ... Blog Entries: 8	thanks for posting this video. link.

11th September 2008, 05:31 AM	#4
GAgola diyAudio Member Join Date: May 2006	Quite something eh! I am watching it over and over, and really wish I could share it with some friends who have no internet connection. Forgive my naivette in these arts, but at which point (min:sec) does the artist evacuate the tube of air? I rather expected the heated parts of the bulb to collapse/suck inwards at the point of heating?, and what kind of vacuum equipment does it take to do that kind of stuff? GAgola

12th September 2008, 03:58 PM	#5
Nordic diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2005	You will see him switch on a machine that has a high pitched noise, and a dail on the front showing the vacuum level... the vacuum gets sucked through that straw at the end, which is then melted off and seals the whole thing..

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