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My homemade tube holder

post #1 of 9
11/13/10 at 1:55pm
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Following a suggestion of someone else on here, I began working on a tube holder for my vacuum tubes (both for storage and for travel). One of the holes grabbed a bit as i went deeper, so that one wont be used (top right), but the other 14 holes are perfect. I'm going to use small stickers next to each tube to identify them without having to pull them out. 

 

Materials are as follows;

 

  • Ikea KRUS Plastic Container - $5
  • 3" Soft Foam (from Joann Fabrics) - $7
  • 3/4" Hole Saw (deep cut) - $10

 

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post #2 of 9
11/13/10 at 9:19pm

Cool, I just keep them in the boxes. This might be more convenient if I bought more tubes.

 

Also, I have the same keyboard as you biggrin.gif

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post #3 of 9
11/13/10 at 10:09pm

Works ok if you only have a few tubes, but when you have a few hundred, well...

 

toobtray.jpg

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post #4 of 9
11/13/10 at 10:19pm

These work well also!02 25 04_0386.jpg

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post #5 of 9
11/13/10 at 10:28pm

pabbi: please enlighten us, what are the boards sitting in front of the boxes?

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post #6 of 9
11/14/10 at 12:57am

 

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Originally Posted by pabbi1 View Post

Works ok if you only have a few tubes, but when you have a few hundred, well...

 

toobtray.jpg

 

Looks like your storage area is a bathroom? Clever using the mirror to give the illusion of more stuff! biggrin.gif

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post #7 of 9
11/14/10 at 9:32am
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Yah, i thought about keeping them in boxes but most of the ones i've been buying off ebay lately aren't coming with boxes and the older boxes are falling apart :(

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post #8 of 9
11/14/10 at 12:20pm

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Originally Posted by aphexii View Post

Yah, i thought about keeping them in boxes but most of the ones i've been buying off ebay lately aren't coming with boxes and the older boxes are falling apart :(

Nice Tube Holder, But aphexii, If you're not using the tube boxes be careful not to rub off the "Info Printing" on each tube....That's real easy to do, as you probably know by now...... JMO....with dealing with my tubes over the years....

 

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post #9 of 9
11/14/10 at 1:15pm

 

 

The bathroom is the unused half of a Jack & Jill, and the mirror isn't really needed for the "more stuff" illusion. I also have boxes of small tubes that sit loose in cardboard boxes. Then, some won't fit in almost any container, like my Eimacs.

 

The boards in the pic were an early eXStata hybrid prototype from a few years back.

 

Here is what that area really looks like... well, shy about 200 tubes acquired since then.

 

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