[Spridgets] Condensers

Jim Johnson bmwwxman at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 17:42:13 MST 2011


How do you seamlessly repair broken glass on the 12AX7 and 6AU6 tubes and
once repaired do you inject a few cc's of vacuum into them with a
hypodermic syringe?  Oh!  And I do hope that vacuum is NOS     ;-)

Cheers!!
Jim

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Dave KK7SS <kk7ss at frontier.com> wrote:

> Actually, some of the 'perfection nut cases' go as far as to hollow out
> the originals and replace the guts with modern stuff. That way it looks
> 'original' --- yeah!, right!
>
> --
> Dave G  KK7SS
>  Richland, WA
>
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> ----- "Jim Johnson" <bmwwxman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If those radios are restored to Concours standard you would need to
> > make your own paper (using the proper wood, of course) beat metal into
> > the proper foil and mine the ore in germany to make the wires. Even
> > then, they might ding you for using resin core solder..... ;-)
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