What about tube collecting? Re: Sv: Re: [sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-colecting!

[anthony]

Tubes mentioned below...

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> How could 3055s get flood damaged... unless it was
> salt water and they were under for a long, long
> time...
> ???

They were under for a while. Rust and corrosion.
I lost some 4PDT switches too.
I have some big DPDT's that don't seem to care that they were under water.
They don't even sound scratchy switching audio.
These were in the same piece of equipment in which I found 3 EL84's.
Is there any other manufaturer other than Mullard that made EL84's that 
has -RD at the end of its name and is made in Great Britain? Cause that's 
all that's left on the tubes that I have. I just thought that it might be 
cool somehow if I had nice vintage Mullard EL84's that have never seen 
guitar amp duty.

Luckilly I still have my favorite quirky transistors: 2 2N2552's (PNP Ge 
Cool hexagonal body with stud for heatsink)
(Not that 3055's are quirky)

> (or maybe the sewer backed up, they weren't dead but
> you WISHED they were...  :^)

My house is built over karst. The flooding gets worse and worse the more the 
develope the area.
They don't watch where that storm run-off goes to but they damn well should. 
I guess they figure once it's underground it stays there for a while. Well 
all I can say to that is uh-uh. uh-uh. uh-uh. I used to have these small 
utility pumps that would take care of it, but now the water gets 3 ft deep. 
(it does have to rain pretty heavy for this to happen, but that equals about 
3 times a year.)

> H^) harry