I would buy tubes made in Russia right now if prices were not out of sight. They make the very best tubes, very consistent.
Too bad tariffs are ridiculous, like we make tubes! Tariffs were originally intended to protect local industry. Since we do not manufacture tubes in Canada, Tariffs should not be applied. Same for the USA, the tubes made there are specialized and ghastly expensive. You could use some competition to shock people back to reality.
I could say a lot here, but that would be political. I will say you should study the treaty NATO made with Russia earlier in time. NATO broke it. That's just factual.
Hi diyiggy,
The tubes used in Military, especially missiles, are leaded (soldered) and attached to the PCB. I have some here. Early avionics are the same, probably tanks and just about everything else the military used. Again, they are just objects.
Too bad tariffs are ridiculous, like we make tubes! Tariffs were originally intended to protect local industry. Since we do not manufacture tubes in Canada, Tariffs should not be applied. Same for the USA, the tubes made there are specialized and ghastly expensive. You could use some competition to shock people back to reality.
I could say a lot here, but that would be political. I will say you should study the treaty NATO made with Russia earlier in time. NATO broke it. That's just factual.
Hi diyiggy,
The tubes used in Military, especially missiles, are leaded (soldered) and attached to the PCB. I have some here. Early avionics are the same, probably tanks and just about everything else the military used. Again, they are just objects.
Frankly the more concistent tubes (from a batch to another) were not russian made, certainly more Philips....
Btw I see there is a brandnewcopy of the old WE round bulb tube ! Fascinating what you can find nowadays.
You mean they soldered the noval 6900 (for illustration) at tubes plant before to send them to US army, or it was just for some tubes ! That's interresting to debug myths ! 🙂
Btw I see there is a brandnewcopy of the old WE round bulb tube ! Fascinating what you can find nowadays.
You mean they soldered the noval 6900 (for illustration) at tubes plant before to send them to US army, or it was just for some tubes ! That's interresting to debug myths ! 🙂
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Eons ago I had an office as this NASA research lab.
On my office I had three Sun workstations and six big Triniton displays. On top of it all, I had a box with a 6550.... it was a Sovtek and the box had the hammer and sickle on it.
When people asked me about it, I told them it was a "spare"..
Got lots of looks and lots of laughs.
I purchased some Valvo "Aa" not so long ago. After doing a little web searching, I discovered they were made at around the time forced labour was apparently being used in the factory. Initially I felt a bit awkward about it, but I got over it and made peace/karma with having them, for many of the aforementioned reasons, but to add a few more. The proceeds of my purchase are unlikely to be fuelling any continued wrong doing in the present; I can't say that for alot of the cheap tat made today. 2) it's not like I've got an oil painting of or made by the Fuhrer hanging above the dining table. 3) I've played PC games like Castle Wolfenstein, and watched Man in the High Castle, yet I don't feel or think I am a closeted Neo Nazi.
Hi diyiggy,
Our experiences differ widely. Philips makes cheap products, tubes were a commodity item. Amprex is of course, North American Philips. Fantastic advertising though.
Some of the best tubes were made by RCA and a few other top manufacturers, tested and sold them when they were new manufacture (not NOS, we hadn't heard of that term yet). I was originally forced to use Sovtek due to poor manufacture quality of other tubes and guess what? While not actual North American tube types, they were quiet, and very consistent. Great tubes, the closest Russian type marked as North American types. Then came Electroharmonix, actual North American types cloned and made in the Reflector factory. Thank you Mike Matthews! I still remember when he called me and I agreed to try his Sovtek tubes. Now they sell various brand marked tubes, and those are reverse engineered from originals of each marked brand. These tubes are extremely consistent with low failure rates.
Russians have been continuously manufacturing tubes right through. They have perfected metallurgy, processes and chemistry over the years. Their workers are highly skilled. So it shouldn't be any surprise they progressed while the rest of the world forgot how to build a tube. They have such a lead on everyone else, and they do quite frankly, make a far better product.
Our experiences differ widely. Philips makes cheap products, tubes were a commodity item. Amprex is of course, North American Philips. Fantastic advertising though.
Some of the best tubes were made by RCA and a few other top manufacturers, tested and sold them when they were new manufacture (not NOS, we hadn't heard of that term yet). I was originally forced to use Sovtek due to poor manufacture quality of other tubes and guess what? While not actual North American tube types, they were quiet, and very consistent. Great tubes, the closest Russian type marked as North American types. Then came Electroharmonix, actual North American types cloned and made in the Reflector factory. Thank you Mike Matthews! I still remember when he called me and I agreed to try his Sovtek tubes. Now they sell various brand marked tubes, and those are reverse engineered from originals of each marked brand. These tubes are extremely consistent with low failure rates.
Russians have been continuously manufacturing tubes right through. They have perfected metallurgy, processes and chemistry over the years. Their workers are highly skilled. So it shouldn't be any surprise they progressed while the rest of the world forgot how to build a tube. They have such a lead on everyone else, and they do quite frankly, make a far better product.
Be Yamamura used some ex. Luftwaffe 211 valves in his noted 211 amps. He told me that he had found them in Paris but that his total purchases
meant that he had to carry quite a few large packing cases down many flights of stairs from a high level apartment. [He also used Telefunken
el caps in these high voltage amps]
meant that he had to carry quite a few large packing cases down many flights of stairs from a high level apartment. [He also used Telefunken
el caps in these high voltage amps]
Then don´t use any banking system, dollars, petrol, money in general, siemens products, hugo boss perfumes, adidas shoes, electronics with tantalum, diamonds, starbucks coffee, lithium bateries...... at the end they are objects or things that cause devastation in any form you could imagine, current events in Eastern europe and middle east, are causing people to look at ¨evil vs good politics, or ethics of things¨ at the end any pro or anti political statement that doesn't convince people into talking into peace or in anti war efforts are only making peace efforts worse, yes any political view will cause people madness, you can not run from this in any debate, there will be always somebody to try you to be your enemy or ally, a svastica in a tube is as evil as a flag or a country using his flag in bank notes, when a lot of countries have little or any kind of support against famine, true evil is in actions and war profiting, those people responsible for your tube markings are certainly all dead, dont worry your tube doesnt care what color its print is, if it where a raytheon one, they are actually profiting in war right now, so you could see that as morally ok then?
Just think, nobody would have known about the swastika on your tube if you hadn't posted a photo here.
Just like this tube is still here after someone said they were illegal to own/sell:
Just like this tube is still here after someone said they were illegal to own/sell:
Well, industry. Military parts have additional environmental requirements that detract from other more desirable characteristics. Or they increase the cost of the part without benefit in terrestrial industrial or consumer applications.
Every part we use in audio, apart from application specific parts, comes from the industrial sector. The audio market could disappear tomorrow and cause only a tiny blip in parts sales.
Every part we use in audio, apart from application specific parts, comes from the industrial sector. The audio market could disappear tomorrow and cause only a tiny blip in parts sales.
It looks very threatening. I wonder if anyone has made a movie Radioactive-Tube Madness?
I suppose if one got sold, the buyer could deliberately break it open and take a big "hoov" of what's inside; someone has to be held responsible for that and of course in such a case, it's the seller. No double standard I can think of in that idea...
This was military property - you will find the exactly same marking on many things used by the german army of that time. Even on plates, spoons, chairs - you name it - it had to be property marked, when possible. Later on in the war, that rule was more and more abandoned to speed up production.
If installed into a german military device of that time, I'd say go for it. Nobody will suspect you being some evil Nazi, when refurbishing old devices to the best status possible. Or place it in a cabinet or museum as a reminder of one of the or the worst time this world ever experienced.
In Germany it is forbidden to see this picture. That is why you have not seen any of our German member post a reaction. 😂
Seriously... this looks like a very rare object. Take good care.
Seriously... this looks like a very rare object. Take good care.
In fact, it's not. You can even put it on public display when adding a historical context. You just have to avoid adding any "gloryfication", that indeed would be illegal.
There is something very special about this stamping. The Nazi or Parteiadler holding a swastika in his claws looks to the right. As far as I can decipher it, this Adler looks to the left which makes it a Reichsadler.
Maybe the picture is not clear enough. If the Adler is looking to the left this is a very special artifact. And I cannot imagine it went unnoticed.
Maybe the picture is not clear enough. If the Adler is looking to the left this is a very special artifact. And I cannot imagine it went unnoticed.
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