Tube socket advice, please

[Steve Morley]

See picture. Need advice where to buy decent 9 pin sockets, octals too.

Thanks, Steve

 

[vinylkid58]

The ones on the left appear to be these: Audio Note Socket 9 Pin Ceramic Gold Valve Base (PCB Mount)

jeff

 

[kodabmx]

For 9 pin, I use these: 9-Pin Ceramic Tube Socket for 12AX7 ECC83 6922 EL84 Bottom Chassis Mount Bulkx50 | eBay

For octal, I prefer these: 20pc 8pin Bakelite vacuum tube socket octal for Chassis EL34 KT88 6550 6SN7 amps | eBay

I especially find the ground tie points useful, and both are bottom mount which makes it easy to transfer the circuit from one chassis to another without rewiring it all.

 

[Hearinspace]

Local.

 

[gideon1990]

Belton sockets are extremely good IMHO, so maybe see if you can get those in Canada?

 

[Kofi Annan]

Tube Depot has a good selection. And I like the Belkins as well.

Kofi

 

[Kofi Annan]

Oh, and Parts Connexion has some fancy shmancy jobs. The Teflon ones are bananas.

Kofi

 

[Steve Morley]

Thanks guys. The ANs at Partconnexion look enticing. It's hard to pay full price and not wait for one of their "25% off almost everything" sales. I'm a fan of the Beltons too. It's too bad the Belton PC mount octals have a different pin diameter than most other octals.

Steve

 

[pblix]

I've seen those on fleabay.

 

[v4lve lover]

There is an eagle lib for the Belton sockets if you're unaware.

 

[Steve Morley]

v4lve lover:

What's an eagle lib?

Thanks, Steve

 

[v4lve lover]

A library with parts for the Eagle printed circuit boards design software.