PAIR VINTAGE WESTERN ELECTRIC 417A TUBES
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Here is a pair (lot of two (2)) Western Electric 417A tubes. Made in USA. Tested on my Hickok 600A as a 5842 tube, where 12, 000 is the target for a new tube, test results are as follows -:
Tube 1: 10, 500 / 12, 000 Code 5939
Tube 2: 10, 000 / 12, 000 Code 5752
While these appear to test below 100%, this is likely due to the Hickok circuit, which always does a very poor job with very high transcondu...ctance tubes like this. I do believe these are brand new tubes. They were part of a lot of new tubes I that had been stored in an old school bus in Arkansas that I got about 25 years ago. The humidity had damaged all of the boxes severely. These were in original Western Electric boxes, but the boxes had virtually dissolved, so they are now in new white boxes.
These are tubes from the heyday of tube electronics. They don't make them like this any longer - and they never will. They will never be cheaper than they are today. Stock up your stash now so when the day comes - in a month, or a year, or five years - when you desperately need a tube, you'll have it. "Buy 'em cheap and stack 'em deep!".
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