tube-aholics anonymous ?

Bigun · 11th August 2010, 02:12 PM

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 · 11th August 2010, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by 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

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 · 11th August 2010, 02:49 PM

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 · 11th August 2010, 04:38 PM

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 · 11th August 2010, 05:35 PM

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

Mr. Zenith · 11th August 2010, 06:05 PM

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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 · 11th August 2010, 06:15 PM

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 · 11th August 2010, 07:07 PM

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 · 12th August 2010, 08:07 AM

Suddenly I'm feeling like part of the crowd

FullRangeMan · 12th August 2010, 05:24 PM

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

11th August 2010, 02:12 PM	#1
Bigun diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: K-W Ontario Blog Entries: 2	tube-aholics anonymous ? 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 __________________ "The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed." Robert M Pirsig.

12th August 2010, 08:07 AM	#9
mosfetmaniac diyAudio Member Join Date: May 2009	Suddenly I'm feeling like part of the crowd __________________ all sorts of stuff

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FullRangeMan diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Brazil	I have seen in the mirror, a even non electronic tech guy doing this some times. __________________ >Never go to a psychiatrist, adopt a cat or dog from the streets. On the streets pets live only two years average.

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11th August 2010, 02:49 PM	#3
mctavish diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Niederösterreich	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!!

11th August 2010, 04:38 PM	#4
whitelabrat diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Maryland	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.

11th August 2010, 05:35 PM	#5
Brit01 diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2008	Tubes are non-perishable, don't go out of fashion and may even gain value so a good collection choice

11th August 2010, 06:15 PM	#7
TheGimp diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Johnson City, TN	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.

11th August 2010, 07:07 PM	#8
TheGimp diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Johnson City, TN	To me, 50 is not a bunch of tubes. It is a few tubes. How many is a bunch? They aren't like roses.

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