Personally I have had more problems with solid state gear coming out of cold
versus uncontrolled storage than I have had with tube gear. I stored a huge
lot of vintage and newer gear for 5 years in an uncontrolled environment and
some other gear in cold storage (sealed but not seal-packed in visquine with
silica gel packets inside). In both cases the only problems I had were with
the solid state stuff ..those infernal, goll-durned phenolic circuit boards.
I'll put my money on the old tube stuff. I liquidated the solid state stuff
and kept the tube stuff and its all been working flawlessly for 3 years at
this QTH.

Vern Weiss W9STB
Minocqua, Wisconsin
All CW - All boatanchors, just as the Bible says it should be.

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When using a cold storage site, will Solid State sets (circa 1980) hold
up better than Vacuum Tube sets (circa 1930-1950) ?
Anyone had experience with this sort of thing?
rgds,
Mark S.