09-09-2019, 12:40 AM
Well, today I got around to testing the tubes. Oh my, oh my! Lots of bad tubes. I tested them on both my testers. Bad 6E5 (expensive if local !) bad 6F5, bad 6F6, bad 6H6, bad 6A8. Just dropped a lot of cash on tubes. I had some in GT type, but these are in an RCA, so I had to order the metal type since this radio needs them for shielding. Oh well, that's life when you restore antique radios. I admit, I ordered doubles of a lot of tubes. There was a deal on Soviet made 6E5 tubes, so I ordered 3 of those which will ship in from Bangkok, Thailand; I also ordered 1 from a USA source so I'll get it a little faster. Those are magic eye tubes.
