[sdiy] Vactrol - lessons learned

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In a message dated 10/24/04 5:33:48 AM, music.maker at gte.net writes:

<< Heh heh, reminds of the "old days", cheap TV sets with vacuum tubes and
all filaments in series.  Which one blew?  Take them ALL out and ohm them
if you can, or run down with the box of tubes to the local electonics
store and plug them into the tester one at a time... >>

To the electronics store?  Come on, Scott, admit that you can remember when 
they used to have those tube testers in grocery stores and supermarkets, 
usually somewhere near the dry goods or the checkout stands.

Somehow, I just never could put much trust those machines, though -- 
particularly the ones in grocery stores.

Michael long-in-the-tooth Bacich