[Paladin79]

Finnegan was a great help today on cables. I also resurrected an old RCA meter I forgot I owned. I am gifting some Sennheisers with one of my amps so I built a variety of cables, high purity copper, silver plated, and solid silver wires.

 

[JKDJedi]

I'll be damned...that is some fine shade/finish in Carolina Blue. That tester looks like its in pristine conditio

Holy addiction! There is money. I don't think I buy tubes anymore.

Edit:

Those in the photos were the ones who stayed.

Those who have already left:

RCA 6as7g
Svetlana 6as7g
Tung-Sol 5998
Sylvania 6080
GE 5998a
RCA vt231 gray glass
Raytheon vt231
KenRad vt231
Sylvania vt231
Tung-Sol 6sn7gtb
Sylvania 6sn7wgt

Still gives a little bit of curiosity:

Brimar 6c5g
Mullard 6j5g
Cossor 6j5g
Fivre 6j5gt

I remember when you just had the stock tubes!! Wow.. love it, very nice!!

 

[bcowen]

Finnegan was a great help today on cables. I also resurrected an old RCA meter I forgot I owned. I am gifting some Sennheisers with one of my amps so I built a variety of cables, high purity copper, silver plated, solid silver wires, and cat saliva to reduce break-in time.

Here...fixed this for you.



And my meter is bigger than yours. This is what I used for final calibration on your tester, as some of the voltages are supposed to be measured with a 1000 ohm/volt impedance and most modern DVM's have way higher impedance. Only the best for you, of course.

 

[Paladin79]

Here...fixed this for you.



And my meter is bigger than yours. This is what I used for final calibration on your tester, as some of the voltages are supposed to be measured with a 1000 ohm/volt impedance and most modern DVM's have way higher impedance. Only the best for you, of course.

As it should be lol only the best for me. Yeah I understand the meter ratings and meters like yours are getting harder and harder to find. This meter has one setting where full deflection is achieved at .5 v dc.and it has a large meter scale.

 

[HTSkywalker]

Holy addiction! There is money. I don't think I buy tubes anymore.

Edit:

Those in the photos were the ones who stayed.

Those who have already left:

RCA 6as7g
Svetlana 6as7g
Tung-Sol 5998
Sylvania 6080
GE 5998a
RCA vt231 gray glass
Raytheon vt231
KenRad vt231
Sylvania vt231
Tung-Sol 6sn7gtb
Sylvania 6sn7wgt

Still gives a little bit of curiosity:

Brimar 6c5g
Mullard 6j5g
Cossor 6j5g
Fivre 6j5gt

You did let go beautiful tubes, why is that??

 

[HTSkywalker]

Even tubes need COVID-19 vaccination...prevents rice accumulation inside?...

Beware as some vaccines may lead to tube death

 

[HTSkywalker]

? Melz,, 1578?

Not much identification marking on it but @Paladin79 may be able to identify as it was a gift from him

 

[HTSkywalker]

Finnegan was a great help today on cables. I also resurrected an old RCA meter I forgot I owned. I am gifting some Sennheisers with one of my amps so I built a variety of cables, high purity copper, silver plated, and solid silver wires.

Finnegan seems to be assisting in cable durability testing

 

[HTSkywalker]

Here...fixed this for you.



And my meter is bigger than yours. This is what I used for final calibration on your tester, as some of the voltages are supposed to be measured with a 1000 ohm/volt impedance and most modern DVM's have way higher impedance. Only the best for you, of course.

With such a meter, you just answered who’s the eldest between you and your sister

 

[maketus]

Shuguang Black Treasure and what kind of 6080?

cheap Ge Jan 6080wc

 

[sam6550a]

Finnegan was a great help today on cables. I also resurrected an old RCA meter I forgot I owned. I am gifting some Sennheisers with one of my amps so I built a variety of cables, high purity copper, silver plated, and solid silver wires.

The RCA WV-98 series are great meters. I have a WV-98A purchased in 1961 and still in use, complete with original manual and parts list. I see that yours is a C model, which has a different circuit than the A.

 

[Paladin79]

The RCA WV-98 series are great meters. I have a WV-98A purchased in 1961 and still in use, complete with original manual and parts list. I see that yours is a C model, which has a different circuit than the A.

They do seem to last forever. I believe this takes a 12AU7 and rectifier tube.

 

[sam6550a]

They do seem to last forever. I believe this takes a 12AU7 and rectifier tube.

Takes a 12AU7 and a 6al5 dual diode. The only required mod is to replace the selenium rectifier with a 1N400x series silicon diode and most probably the electrolytic capacitor.

 

[Paladin79]

Takes a 12AU7 and a 6al5 dual diode. The only required mod is to replace the selenium rectifier with a 1N400x series silicon diode and most probably the electrolytic capacitor.

Already did that right after I opened it, and the battery, I had not used the meter for decades.

 

[Paladin79]

Mid June I will start on my DV mods, I am still deciding on cabinet design but my shop is clean so the electronics will be done first.