Found tons of Tubes,and many other parts

[MellowTone]

Originally Posted by ArtG

I suspect that there are enough people on this board with sufficient interest to allow you sell most of the stuff here, without resorting to eBay. There’s a forum here titled “Swap Meet” that’s specifically for this purpose. I have an interest in the polystyrene capacitors. Many others will have interest in some, but probably not all the tubes. The audio types will sell quickly, but you will probably find that many of the “TV” tubes will be difficult to sell. Another outlet for equipment of this type, would be weekend “Hamfests”.

+1

I know I've already seen a handful I'd be interested in.
Bit hard to see the numbers on some of them, but I'm sure I could find a decent handful more in that.

[Captn Dave]

Do you mind saying in what city is this stash located?

[Thumpers]

I live in gillette Wyoming if that helps.

[payitforwardeddie]

Please excuse my language but **** that's some collection. Got to be worth thousands.

[bear]

Looks like a nice TV repair shop tube collection.
In that there will likely be a number of desirable types.

You have a nice stash, if you have the patience to sell them on ebay, the better types will bring you a pretty nice chunk-o-change.

Otoh, you could build some stuff for yourself with some of it, depending on what tubes are there...

The old twistloc caps will be of interest to those who restore radios and musician's amps...

_-_-bear

[Captn Dave]

I'm tempted to buy up those twist lock caps and try to reform them. Can you open a few boxes and look to confirm that they are unused? By that I mean that there is no wire or solder on them and nothing has been twisted.

They certainly do look to be NOS (new old stock) but I know how common it was for folks to replace a part (or tube) and put the old part back in the box and then hang on to it. Not that I ever do that...

[Thumpers]

Which ones are considered twist lock. sorry im not familliar with all this stuff. I will take pictures and assist any way that i can.

[bear]

The capacitors are likely metal cans inside those boxes with the multiple values printed on the flaps, in one of the tube caddy shots... they are called "twist lock" because they are inserted into (usually) a phenolic insulator that is pre-punched to match the bottom, and then to hold it in place the tabs that connect to the metal can on the bottom get a 1/4 turn twist, which causes the little tines on the tabs to spread and lock the capacitor into place. Twist - lock.



_-_-bear

[Thumpers]

The capacitors are All NOS there were 2 of an off brand that are used and i tossed them the rest all appear to be unused and NIB.i have a list of them all here.

Grayburn caps
tsb-1
tvl-1541
tvl1540
pcl-1428
tva-1205
tvl-1426
tvl-1429
tvl-1547
tva-1163
tva-1162
tva-1906
tva-1966
tva-1712
tva-1480
pcl-2432
pcl-2441
tva-3451
tvl-4635.7
tva-1802

General Electric Caps
XC1-26
XC1-8
XC1-16.1
XC1-18
XC1-19
XC-14
XC3-26
XC2-1.1
XC2-28
XC2-39
XC2-43.05
XC3-20
XC3-47
XC3-29
XC3-33
XC3-34
XC3-39
XC3-46
XC4-8.5
XC3-48
XC4-4.2
XC4-5.1
XC4-6.1
XC4-9.1
XC4-10.2
XC4-14
XC4-29
XC4-30
XC4-31
XC4-63.1
XC4-68.1
XC4-68.2
XC4-69
XC4-55.1
XC4-73
XC4-76
XC4-83
XC4-84
XC3-48.05
EP31X57
EP31X28
EU31X278

MALLORY
FP253
FP140.91
WD-446A
FP245.5
FP155A
FP414.1
PFP427.69A
FP450.16A
FP125.95M
FP147

ARCOLYTIC
CTM2342

CDE
DD0966A
CC0238.7A
AA0263A
DD0048A

[bear]

yeah, well few of us out here will have the original catalogs to go back to reference in order to find out what values and voltages those are... one kinda goes by the size and the values printed on the box or if not there, then on the can itself... otoh, you don't want to open up old NOS boxes either...

_-_-bear