Got myself a nice tube haul...

nadams
nadams Posts: 5,877
edited January 2011 in Electronics
Just a few NOS tubes in this lot...

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There's some good stuff in there. Some will be hitting the flea market soon...
Ludicrous gibs!
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    Hope you have a tube tester.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited January 2011
    I do not, but I know someone who does.
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited January 2011
    That will keep you busy. congrats, looks like quite the haul.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited January 2011
    Cool BB gun fodder.
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited January 2011
    nadams corners the tube market!!!!

    Hey if you have any 7591's in there I'm interested. Nice haul!!
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    Carver TFM-55
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    Rega Planar 3 TT/Shelter 501 MkII
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  • fishbones
    fishbones Posts: 947
    edited January 2011
    I'd be interested too, if you end up with some 6CA4's and 12AU7's.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited January 2011
    I'll let you guys know. There's a few hundred tubes to catalog. Some of them are already marked "weak" or "poor", so they'll just be tossed. The 12UA7's are used in the little amp I got recently, so I'm probably keeping those. I don't think there were many.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited January 2011
    nice haul...
    back in the day.. i wonder what a tube sold for say in 1965 ? $2, $5 ??
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited January 2011
    Don't forget to check the value on the cigar boxes! I've always been amazed at what some of those go for at antique auctions!
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited January 2011
    Al, just pulled out some old price guides.

    12AX7's All $2.55 each from the following Catalogs:

    CBS Catalog 1958, GE Catalog 2/23/1959, Raytheon Catalog 10/1/1962

    Cheers,
    Russ
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2011
    $2.55 in '59 = ~$19 today...

    I bought a big box of tubes once... Good luck, Al...
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited January 2011
    danger boy wrote: »
    nice haul...
    back in the day.. i wonder what a tube sold for say in 1965 ? $2, $5 ??

    Not sure of the date, but one of the RadioShack tubes has a $4.99 price tag on it. But then, we all know RS isn't the master of low prices or anything.
    Tour2ma wrote: »
    $2.55 in '59 = ~$19 today...

    If it were straight inflation. Obviously, (Lack of) Supply and (continuing) demand raises the price on some of the tubes. But there's also a lot of junk in there, I know.
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited January 2011
    I think Doug is probably right, and your money, if any, is in the cigar boxes. The rest looks like a bunch of radio / tv tubes, which are pretty much worthless.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2011
    nadams wrote: »
    If it were straight inflation. Obviously, (Lack of) Supply and (continuing) demand raises the price on some of the tubes. But there's also a lot of junk in there, I know.
    Pretty much my point... I mean I did wish you luck...

    I spent a few hours catalogging 150-ish NOS tubes in boxes, pricing them on ebay only to find that, if I got max prices for all, I'd break even on what I'd spent on the box...

    I hope you are luckier, if not with the tubes, at least with the cigar boxes...
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    I've bought a few tube lots from Craigslist and the like with very few actual keepers. YMMV.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited January 2011
    true.. in your box Noah there may be a few gems in there. but most likely the lot prob isn't worth much.. but cool stash of glass tubes.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,211
    edited January 2011
    Looks like mostly TV/Radio tubes indeed, but...

    1) there are some interections in the Venn diagram between hifi and TV/radio: the 12xx7 family, fer instance, or the 6AQ5 (there are others, as well).
    2) there are some TV tubes that have, in recent years, been given a second life in cost-effective hifi (typically kit or DIY), e.g., the 11BM8 (a 6BM8 variant that was worthless 'til the S-5 Electronics "K-12" kit came on the market). When in doubt ('specially if, say, you have a sleeve of five NOS somethings) ask about the tube types or Google 'em to see if anyone's done anything interesting with them.
    3) the fact that there are Mullard and Raytheon boxes in with the RCA, Sylvania, Tung-Sol and GE boxes is not a bad omen.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited January 2011
    Well, if I make anything off this, it's profit. The entire lot was given to me for free.

    Yes, I realise that most are likely going to be junk or not worth trying to sell. But there are a few gems that I found just doing spot searches. These winter evenings, I don't have much to do anyway... Time to fire up the laptop, start researching tube history, and find a way to organize these.

    Who knows... maybe I'll get excited and decide to keep them and build an amp or two...
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited January 2011
    nadams wrote: »
    Well, if I make anything off this, it's profit. The entire lot was given to me for free.

    Yes, I realise that most are likely going to be junk or not worth trying to sell. But there are a few gems that I found just doing spot searches. These winter evenings, I don't have much to do anyway... Time to fire up the laptop, start researching tube history, and find a way to organize these.

    Who knows... maybe I'll get excited and decide to keep them and build an amp or two...

    The actual boxes for them are pure, super cool nostalgia. Make a montage with an 8x10, Michael's frame for a buck.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited January 2011
    dorokusai wrote: »
    The actual boxes for them are pure, super cool nostalgia. Make a montage with an 8x10, Michael's frame for a buck.

    I actually quite like this idea... Maybe go more towards a custom-built rack of sorts to keep some of the cooler-looking tubes in. And then a frame for some of the old boxes.


    BTW- anyone looking at the cigar boxes, unfortunately, the previous owner wrote "TUBES" all over the outsides of them.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,211
    edited January 2011
    nadams wrote: »
    Well, if I make anything off this, it's profit. The entire lot was given to me for free.

    Yes, I realise that most are likely going to be junk or not worth trying to sell. But there are a few gems that I found just doing spot searches. These winter evenings, I don't have much to do anyway... Time to fire up the laptop, start researching tube history, and find a way to organize these.

    Who knows... maybe I'll get excited and decide to keep them and build an amp or two...

    FYI: All the vacuum tube information most normal (or even near-normal) mortals are ever likely to need may be found at www.tubebooks.org and more specifically at http://www.tubebooks.org/tube_data.htm
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  • ESavinon
    ESavinon Posts: 3,066
    edited January 2011
    Any 6922's?
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  • quadzilla
    quadzilla Posts: 1,543
    edited January 2011
    Get any 274Bs in that lot? Really looking for one.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,211
    edited January 2011
    what the fug is a 274B? I'm gonna have to look that one up... :-)

    EDIT: OK, got it.
    http://www.westernelectric.com/products/274b.html
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