"christofire" <christofire@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Ron Hubbard" <ryon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jun 27, 4:34 pm, Tim Wescott <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Ron Hubbard wrote:
>> > On Jun 27, 6:21 am, John Larkin
>> > <jjlar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:08:39 -0700 (PDT), Ron Hubbard
<r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> >>> I bought a bunch of vacuum tubes from a surplus electronics store
>> >>> that was going out of business, so many of them weren't marked as
to
>> >>> what tubes they were-- but they were cheap. One in particular is a
>> >>> large eight inch tube that has four pins at the bottom and two
>> >>> connectors for electrode caps, one at the top and another one
>> >>> sticking
>> >>> off to the side in an "L" shaped arrangement.
>> >>> It's obvious it's a power tube of some sort, but does anybody have
>> >>> any
>> >>> idea what kind? Diode or triode? I don't know if it's a tube
number,
>> >>> but marked at the base by the filaments is the number 35049... Any
>> >>> help indentifying this tube would be appreciated.
>> >>> Ron
>> >> Could be any of a number of parts. Can you post a pic?
>>
>> > Sigh... No; 'fraid not. For some inexplicable reason I can never keep
>> > a scanner working for more than ywo or three days at the most, then
>> > they go dead on me. Why, I don't know, but I have the remains of four
>> > scanners lying about just waiting for the garbage dump. ;-(
>>
>> > Ron
>>
>> Perhaps you're trying to shut the lid all the way when you try to scan
a
>> tube?
>>
>> I'd think you'd diagnose the problem after breaking a few tubes, but if
>> you have to break the scanner glass...
>
> LOL. No, I don't do that.... I scan only paper pages and on rare
> occasions, a few photos, and within a day or two after turning pages
> into .jpeg files or whatever, I usually have a dead scanner; go
> figure.
>
> So now I quit buying scanners.; it's much cheaper that way.
>
> Ron
>
>
> You could use a digital camera, even one in a mobile 'phone, to take a
> shot of the tube/valve.
>
What and break a camera and phone?
Mike
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