Contracted manufacturer to install 1.0mm pin sockets in Magnoval bases. Tested on 12GT5 Novar tubes.
Money back guarantee if not satisfied with fit. Background link below.
$2.50 each + ship to US, Canada.
Thanks,
Jim
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/real-novar-sockets-inside.397358/#post-7304388
Money back guarantee if not satisfied with fit. Background link below.
$2.50 each + ship to US, Canada.
Thanks,
Jim
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/real-novar-sockets-inside.397358/#post-7304388
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I bought some from Jim. Thanks, Jim. They had a tight fit initially om my 27GT5 tubes, but with a little Caig Progold G5 on the pins they slipped in and had a good grip. Thanks for importing those. Certainly worth the asking price.
These will go to ebay @ higher price soon-
Giving diyaudio members first chance @ $2.50 ea + ship
Giving diyaudio members first chance @ $2.50 ea + ship
Would you be so kind and provide the information on who made them for you, so I can contact them to get some Novar sockets made for myself? Just can't do the price gouging of that dude on eBay wanting 15USD a piece without mounting hardware. Thanks
Link to company-
https://www.alibaba.com/product-det...a2756.order-detail-ta-ta-b.0.0.6d632fc2B90ugz
You need to make sure the version you are ordering have custom 1.0" pin sockets, like the order placed in March 2023.
I was able to order Qty: 100 back then as a 'sample'.
Jim
https://www.alibaba.com/product-det...a2756.order-detail-ta-ta-b.0.0.6d632fc2B90ugz
You need to make sure the version you are ordering have custom 1.0" pin sockets, like the order placed in March 2023.
I was able to order Qty: 100 back then as a 'sample'.
Jim
Thank You Jim. I am currently waiting for a reply on shipping to Jamaica from them. I only can get the PC mount You got from them, they say they can not do chassis mount due to hardware fitment issues, but I am thinking to get small circuit boards made to convert the sockets to chassis mount. I hope it comes through. I just ordered a bunch of dirt cheap Novar sweep tubes for an amplifier with series filaments across mains with damper diode voltage doubler to build a transformerless power amp in a double insulated chassis. I know you guys here do not promote that, but in Jamaica people have only little money and double insulated chassis with high quality X2 coupling capacitors on the line inputs with plastic shaft potentiometer should be safe enough inside a double insulated chassis.
I also ordered 1mm PINs from Amazon to make my own sockets using 1/2 inch thick fibre glass blocks I have by drilling holes and use epoxy to set the PINs into it. There are just too many dirt cheap Novar tubes being wasted because the only seller who has Novar socket stock is price gauging, demanding 15USD a socket with missing mounting hardware. If I have to buy 6 sockets per amp, the socket cost would exceed the cost of ALL other parts needed to build the amplifiers, inclusive OPTs. Go figure...
Well, very very bad news. After I emailed with the manager of the tube socket factory and identified the March 2023 order for reference, I was told they can not ship to Jamaica. Any further inquiry has been ignored since. No more replies! So I guess unless you are American, live in the USA and want to pay a 145% tariff, you have it even harder getting your hands onto Novar sockets! Stan at ESRC I hear has passed on and he was the only one with new production Novar sockets and that info of the source went with Stan. The 15USD per socket at that notorious auction site, makes building with Novar sockets from a single seller, who knows it and scalps you hard for it, economical absolutely not feasible. Who wants to spend 100USD on 6 novar sockets for an amp? Makes no sense just for sockets... Any Americans here who might order some for themselves at a point and willing to sell me a bunch off their order or maybe go in for a 200 piece order and split the order and then willing to ship my loot to me with affordable shipping?