[sdiy] Vactrol - lessons learned

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 06:08 pm, WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:
> 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

Having used those,  they were handy for telling whether a filament was burned 
out or not,  at least...