[sdiy] Capacitor Values

[greg montalbano]

At 08:15 AM 2/21/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Actually, I have a handful myself.  I keep them because
>they remind me of my childhood, when I built bootleg
>radio transmitting equipment using tubes with 2 digit
>numbers.  "27" was my favorite triode.

Was digging through my garage yesterday & came across
some of the tubes from MY first, timid radio experiments --
considering that these were bought surplus in 1963, I really
wonder if they're still any good;  hmmm, do I have time to
re-learn tube circuitry......?