[UntilThen]

Photos, or it didn't happen...

Alright I'll release one photo.

 

[UntilThen]

Bummer one of my GEC 6AS7s died yesterday. I only had them about 8 months What paid $430 for them.
Have Brimar 6080s in the amp now they sound pretty good. Not sure who really made them.
Almost bought that single GEC 6AS7 on E-BAY for $419 then came to my senses.
The 6080 sounds good enough and is totally quiet.
I had it with expensive tubes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's beyond sad Glenn.

 

[rosgr63]

Bummer one of my GEC 6AS7s died yesterday. I only had them about 8 months What paid $430 for them.
Have Brimar 6080s in the amp now they sound pretty good. Not sure who really made them.
Almost bought that single GEC 6AS7 on E-BAY for $419 then came to my senses.
The 6080 sounds good enough and is totally quiet.
I had it with expensive tubes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry to hear that Glenn.

You can never tell with tubes, maybe David has a spare one.

 

[whirlwind]

Bummer one of my GEC 6AS7s died yesterday. I only had them about 8 months What paid $430 for them.
Have Brimar 6080s in the amp now they sound pretty good. Not sure who really made them.
Almost bought that single GEC 6AS7 on E-BAY for $419 then came to my senses.
The 6080 sounds good enough and is totally quiet.
I had it with expensive tubes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry to hear about this Glenn.
I lost a 5998 tube a couple of months ago, it just died while listening. It did not cause any damage filaments just gave way.

 

[L0rdGwyn]

Bummer one of my GEC 6AS7s died yesterday. I only had them about 8 months What paid $430 for them.
Have Brimar 6080s in the amp now they sound pretty good. Not sure who really made them.
Almost bought that single GEC 6AS7 on E-BAY for $419 then came to my senses.
The 6080 sounds good enough and is totally quiet.
I had it with expensive tubes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sent you a PM Glenn.

 

[mordy]

Bummer one of my GEC 6AS7s died yesterday. I only had them about 8 months What paid $430 for them.
Have Brimar 6080s in the amp now they sound pretty good. Not sure who really made them.
Almost bought that single GEC 6AS7 on E-BAY for $419 then came to my senses.
The 6080 sounds good enough and is totally quiet.
I had it with expensive tubes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those Brimars are most likely made by Sylvania.
Sorry to hear about the GEC giving out.

 

[2359glenn]

You know I am stupid for buying them. I built these amps to use cheep tubes and sound good.
The 6080 is a bit more mellow or worm compared to the GEC 6AS7 but still sound really good.
And I had the 6080s before I paid all that money for the GEC's what a moron.
I had it with expensive tubes had a pair of KR globe 300Bs and one of the filaments burned out after a year.
That was a $1000 down the drain. I plan on converting the 300B amps I have to EL34 the output transformer is the right impedance.
Could have bought a couple of nice phones for what I paid for 300Bs over the years.

 

[heliosphann]

Glenn you smack the crap out of that tube. Think of it just like "CPR". It'll bring it back to life proper, I swear!

 

[heliosphann]

Also I had a dream about tubes last night. I need help.

 

[L0rdGwyn]

The exact same thing that happened with the 7802 happened to me this morning with my NEC 6AS7G @heliosphann , filaments didn't heat up the cathode. Turned it upside down, gave it a light smack, good as new! These tubes need to be reminded who they serve.

(in both cases, I am pretty certain there was just some debris inside the tube causing a short)

 

[2359glenn]

Glenn you smack the **** out of that tube. Think of it just like "CPR". It'll bring it back to life proper, I swear!

I will try that after work tonight it can't heart anything.
Already tried soldering the pins twice that didn't work. Then I was going to test it on my Hickok 800a tube tester.
When I turned it on the meter was going backwards. So that is broke too was to depressed to do anything at that point.
Now have to fix the tube tester. Just a bad weekend.

 

[heliosphann]

I will try that after work tonight it can't heart anything.
Already tried soldering the pins twice that didn't work. Then I was going to test it on my Hickok 800a tube tester.
When I turned it on the meter was going backwards. So that is broke too was to depressed to do anything at that point.
Now have to fix the tube tester. Just a bad weekend.

That sucks Glenn. Hope it isn't dead!

 

[2359glenn]

Also I had a dream about tubes last night. I need help.

I also had a dream that the rectifier in my amp was arcing over .
What are we nuts??

 

[UntilThen]

I had a dream too. Last night before going to bed I bid $99 on the Telefunken RGN4004 black mesh plate and I dreamt I won it. This morning when I looked at the auction, it closed at $623. I thought OMG did I bid that much for a rectifier. Then I realised I didn't win it. Someone else did.

 

[heliosphann]

I also had a dream that the rectifier in my amp was arcing over .
What are we nuts??

Yours seems somewhat sane compared to mine. This English family was renting out a property and part of the house included some Mullard tubes that I wanted, but there was concern the tubes were being abused or something. Lol