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August 12th 07, 01:22 AM
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Any suggestions for good way to store loose tubes?
"Tim Shoppa" wrote in message ups.com... On Aug 6, 12:10 am, wrote: Double-posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew and r.r.a.boatanchors Tubes in their original boxes are easy to store; just line them up on little shelves which have enough "lip" to keep them from falling off. But what about tubes which are NOT in individual boxes? I currently have boxes and boxes (shoe-box size boxes) of loose tubes (mostly 7- and 9-pin and octal bases; plus a few bigger ones, such as 807/1625, 1619, etc.) Has anyone found a really-good way to store loose tubes? I've considered making some flat shelves (with enough "lip" ...) and just laying the tubes down horizontally side by side. I've also drilled some tube-base-diameter holes in a piece of 2x2 (actually 1.5x1.5) so they'll stand on end; looks nice and would be easy to mount as shelves, but will probably cost a fortune in spade drill bits! Any suggestions? If these are random used/unknown tubes of no particular value, the economical solution is to toss them in shoeboxes or larger boxes and not do anything to protect them. It's questional economics to keep them lying around for another 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 more years! If these are known good tubes with some value above zero, cardboard boxes for all the common tube sizes (in particular the sizes you mention) are available from AES, Angela, etc. If you are a distributor with thousands and thousands of tubes coming in from the far east or Russia, eggcrate-divider packing is popular. Tim. If you know what you have you are more likely to use it. Jimmie |
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