Vacuum Tubes

[Charles E. Fox]

At 02:30 AM 3/27/2005, you wrote:
>Just thought I'd let the listees know that while visiting my local parts 
>and equipment store today (which carries a large amount of discontinued 
>and surplus items of all types), I noticed there was a whole aisle of 
>electronic vacuum tubes there.  Guess it's been there for quite a while, I 
>just hadn't noticed it before.  I looked at several of the tubes and saw 
>that the addresses listed on the boxes contained no ZIP codes, so I figure 
>that a good part if not all of these tubes are vintage items from back in 
>the '50s or '60s.  I have no idea what prices they have on these items as 
>most of the stuff is unmarked, but I know from buying other items there, 
>their prices are usually pretty reasonable.  If anyone has any needs of 
>vintage vacuum tubes, contact me off list and I be glad to check on them 
>for you.  I saw RCA, GE, and Sylvania there to mention a few and I believe 
>most were for TVs and Radios, but who knows what else I may find 
>there.  I'm not an electronics person so I don't know what distinguishes 
>one tube type from another.  Let me know if I can be of help to anyone out 
>there.
>
>Bill
>bmachacek at pcisys.net
>

         Back in the fifties and sixties tv manufacturers had a nasty habit 
of installing new odd ball tubes in their yearly models. Any one in the tv 
repair business had to stock a few of each, and if you never saw one of the 
sets, you never got rid of the tubes,  I have several boxes of them.

         Charlie Fox
                                 Charles E. Fox Video Production
                                         793 Argyle Rd.
                                 Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8
                                 519-254-4991    cfox1 at cogeco.ca