tube-aholics anonymous ?

[Bigun]

I just ordered a bunch of tubes, without even having a project for them all. I just couldn't resist them. And I've only even built one beginners tube project. Is this an incurrable condition - what advice do you have for me

 

[HollowState]

I just ordered a bunch of tubes, without even having a project for them all. I just couldn't resist them. And I've only even built one beginners tube project. Is this an incurrable condition - what advice do you have for me

LOL. My advice, enjoy them and welcome to the "club". Some of us here, myself included, have thousands stashed away. As long as you can pay the bills, it's a harmless disease.

 

[mctavish]

Jewelry. Buy your wife more jewelry. It makes it easier on her when you bring home your second or third truckload of tubes and start to devote entire rooms for tube storage. And always remind her of those friends of yours who have motorcycles, classic cars, boats, ect. and how much MORE their hobbies cost than yours!!

 

[whitelabrat]

Oddball tube and dead lawn mowers. Hard to resist. To put things into a practical perspective at least once a finished product is completed, they can be sold... to buy more weird tubes and dead lawn mowers.

 

[Brit01]

Tubes are non-perishable, don't go out of fashion and may even gain value so a good collection choice

 

[Mr_Zenith]

As long as you can pay the bills, it's a harmless disease.

I don't know about that, Hollowstate; my garage is starting to look like the set of Sanford and Son, with at least three unstable piles o' tube-related stuff. Just the other day I had to tell the kid across the street not to come in for rear he'd be buried for weeks!

 

[TheGimp]

Ach! I just ordered 50ea 6J9Ps, and I don't even have a circuit simulated yet (probably be a phono stage).

I can quit any time I want to. Honest.

 

[TheGimp]

To me, 50 is not a bunch of tubes. It is a few tubes.

How many is a bunch? They aren't like roses.

 

[mosfetmaniac]

Suddenly I'm feeling like part of the crowd

 

[FullRangeMan]

I have seen in the mirror, a even non electronic tech guy doing this some times.

 

[rock4016]

Hello, my name is Joel and I'm a tubeaholic...

 

[wrenchone]

Same here - my living room is full of boxes of tubes. What I need is time to use what I've got. I'm at least getting more selective in my buying habits, only buying those that have a likely use.

 

[Apex Jr]

Is there a 12 step program for this ?

Steve

 

[TheGimp]

Yes,

Step 1 - have a friend give you his left over tubes from when he ran a TV repair business 30 years ago.

(Half of which are dead and need to be culled.)

 

[DualTriode]

Hello, my name is Joel and I'm a tubeaholic...

Hello All,
My name is Bob I do not have a problem. I am here with a friend. I still have not reached the limit on my credit card. Storage space is becoming limited and I have purchased an inventory database to keep track of it all.
To be frank it is not just tubes. It is capacitors, resistors, chokes and I just bought 50 pounds of ten pound power transformers.
What allows me to feel better is that I know that allyouall got it worse than me.
DT
All Just for fun!

 

[Mr_Zenith]

Step 1 - have a friend give you his left over tubes from when he ran a TV repair business 30 years ago.

Step 2 - Visit a Hamfest. Look for boxes of tubes labeled, "Tubes: $1 each." Offer $25 for a box of 50. Abscond with the goods and cull as in Step 1.

 

[Wavebourn]

Step 2 - Visit a Hamfest. Look for boxes of tubes labeled, "Tubes: $1 each." Offer $25 for a box of 50. Abscond with the goods and cull as in Step 1.

3 - drop out Theoretical Physics, and go to Electrical Engineering.

Speaking of 12 steps, I recently recorded a lecture by Debby Barrett and Brigitta F. D'Amato. It was called Tracing The Roots of Twentieth Century Recovery Phenomenon to the Royal Tombs of Egypt. Indeed, similarities between "12 steps" and "12 hours" are astonishing. One of them read from one text commenting it out, other read from another, step by step.

What did they use instead of vacuum tubes in Ancient Egypt, huh?

http://www.tubedata.org/other/ancient_tubes.pdf

 

[DualTriode]

What did they use instead of vacuum tubes in Ancient Egypt, huh?

The ancient Egyptians did not hoard Vacuum Tubes. They were caught up in DeNile.
DT
All Just for fun!

 

[makaiyumtony]

Tube's sound quality has so many levels, depend how to work it out, Mil-grade transmitting tubes, no more jobs in transmitting but if you make it sing, I believe no silicon amp can compare to them
tony ma

 

[mosfetmaniac]

Buying a cheap box of tubes at a fair over the weekend to find a bunch of NOS metal base EL34's and GZ34's , 2A3's and others at the bottom of it does nothing but fuel the obsession