Why remove the pins you don't need? The only thing on that end of the
tube is the filament and if any of the pins are used as tie points they
better be at filament potential. The voltage is high enough to jump to
any pin that was significantly different. Since that is the case, there
should only be one pin used as a tie point, for the filament voltage
dropping resistor.

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Jim Mueller

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On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:57:42
-0400, Mark Oppat wrote:

sure would, but that is rare to see all the pins there... I wonder if it
was an aftermarket version where you could remove the ones you didnt need???
I worked at a parts distributor in the late 70's, sold a bunch of these, but
dont recall if there were "universal". I know we had a whole rack of
different ones... and, they were pretty dusty from not selling!

Mark Oppat


"K3HVG" wrote in message
...
Nope... the bottom view shows all pins installed. I guess they'd wotk
OK???

Mark Oppat wrote:
Jim wrote:

Of course, just

because it was made for one purpose doesn't mean that it can't be used
for
another. Since it has all the contacts, a power tube would work.


Well, Jim, these HV TV sockets usually dont have all the contracts!
He
doesnt show the bottom but often there are only 4 socket pins... which
is
why I pitched all mine a while back. worthless for anything but the
sets
they were designed for, which is the scourge of most TV parts...

Mark Oppat