[qrp-canada] Online Tube manual

[Barry Bogart]

That immediately made me think of our local radio
museum, and I'll pass the URL along to them. They
restore a lot of glowboxes. For those they don't know
about it, check out:
http://www3.telus.net/radiomuseum/ 
There are lots of pix there, but of course if you are
ever visiting Vancouver, you must see it.

72, Barry
VE7VIE/WV2J

--- Rick Young <rickyoung at telus.net> wrote:

> Hello all.
>     I just found a copy of a vacuum tube manual that
> was developed to
> help technicians keep radio equipment running when
> drop-in replacement
> parts were not available. It not only gives the
> charistics of the
> original tube but gives charistics of tubes with
> similar properties even
> though the bases and pin configurations are
> different. The object was to
> get the radio running, not necessarily restore it.
> If any of you OLD
> guys ( like me ) out there are puttering with
> getting even older radios
> running, this book can be of value. Have a look, and
> if you think it
> might be useful, bookmark it, if not then just
> ignore it. I found it
> looking for some 201's for my Deforest Crosley DC-5,
> an discovered that
> there are several tubes that I could use instead,
> however the object for
> the Deforest is to restore it, not just to get it
> running. One option
> here though is to build adaptor sockets to use some
> of the subs to get
> it running until I can find replacements. I can buy
> 201's, but, five of
> them at about fifty bucks a pop, I will wait. 
>  
> Rick
>  
> HYPERLINK
>
"http://frank.pocnet.net/vademecum0.html"http://frank.pocnet.net/vademec
> um0.html
> 
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