need to retube a drake r4b

where r good sources for new tubes in USA?

tx

Bunia3 wrote:
need to retube a drake r4b

where r good sources for new tubes in USA?

tx
There was a thread on tubes a month or two
back. Just do a web search on "vacuum tubes"
and you'll get a coupla dozen on-line vendors. I've
bought from 3 or 4 that show up on the first page
of the Yahoo search and they were all fine.
Radio Daze at www.radiodaze.com and AES at
www.tubesandmore.com pop to mind,
but they're all ok. Check prices, they can vary
a lot from vendor to vendor.

"Bunia3" wrote in message
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need to retube a drake r4b

Why retube? I think retubing is wasteful, unless you are using tubes still
in production and somebody else is paying for them.

In my expirence, most old tubes in old radios are good. Paper capacitors
are the biggest problem by far, although I don't think your Drake has paper
caps. I've seen a higher percentage of drifted carbon compisition resistors
than the percentage of weak tubes.

Trouble shooting by tube substitution is a valid procedure, but there's no
need to have more than one of each tube number, and good used tubes work
just fine for that purpose.



where r good sources for new tubes in USA?

tx

I've had good results from

Triode Electronics (mostly audio tubes)

Brent Jessee Recording (audio and radio)

Fair Radio Sales

ESRC

Hamfests

Ebay vendors

I've had generally good, but not perfect, results from Antique Electronics
Supply. AES has a very large inventory of tubes and an inclusive catalog.
The other vendors seem to try to beat the AES price.

Frank Dresser

"Bunia3" wrote in message
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need to retube a drake r4b

where r good sources for new tubes in USA?

tx

Oh, other good places to ask your question a

rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors

rec.antiques.radio+phono

Frank Dresser