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I have a few 849's around here but my biggest tube is an Eimac 750
"Mike Knudsen" wrote in message ... In article , (harry) writes: A guy at work bought his old guitar amp to get looked at. The tech said he needed new tubes. (probably really doesn't). However, I needed to bring in my 833A and said he needed 2 tubes like this!! He was hysterical! The tech and I got talking about BIG glass tubes. I was wondering if anyone knows of a bigger glass tube than 833a , 852 , 861, 4-1000a etc. The 849 comes close, if I recall the number right. When I was a kid in the 50s, our family knew the guy who maintained all the local airport radios. He brought me a lot of weak or blown tubes. The 849 was a classic -- over a foot tall, big metal plate cap. The filamanet was a wispy M shape held up by little spring-loaded clips on the ceramic frame inside. The tech said they only ran it about 150 watts, so it would last a *long* time. Probbly used in the LW beacons. ISTR people made table lamps out of these bottles. 73, Mike K. Oscar loves trash, but hates Spam! Delete him to reply to me. |
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