Re: This Hobby's Expensive - Tosh! No,my good man, it isn't!

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

Svetlana makes a lot of big power tubes still to this day and they are good 
quality.  RF Parts carries them:

http://www.rfparts.com/tubesvet.html

http://www.rfparts.com/6146w.html#select

http://www.rfparts.com/572b.html

http://www.rfparts.com/6146w.html

Beware some of the cheap "chinese" tubes.  I got two and they literally 
fell apart in my hands since the glue used to hold the base and top 
terminal was not designed to withstand heat :-p  Once i glues them back 
together, they just arced and blew up....  I like Svetlana!  The people at 
RF parts can help you be sure you get good ones.  Svetlana's websites seem 
to be forever down :-(

RF Part also sell all kinds of other goodies!

http://www.rfparts.com/product.html

Cheers,

        Terry



At 06:11 PM 4/17/2005, you wrote:
> "  I went out on a limb  and bought a fine HP tube signal generator for
> 20$ 0n
> Ebay .Tubes are hard to get, but it puts out 20v  3W signal which makes
> finding a coils resonant frequency easy ."
>
>         Tubes of the kind you'd need for that kind of test equipment are easy
> to find at reasonable prices.  Quite a few guys have good stocks on hand
> and have web pages.  Antique Electronic Supply is one example.
>
> Ed