roll your own vaccum tubes?

nesta · Post by **nesta** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:31 pm

if you have 17 minutes to kill and you want to watch a hard-core amateur radio operator roll his own tubes...

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/0 ... _tube.html

what else can be said?

enjoy.

AstroDan · Post by **AstroDan** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:13 pm

That is too DIY for me. I'm still trying not to solder my finger to cable jacks...

bplr · Post by **bplr** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:20 pm

you gotta be kidding me. what a badass. and here i was starting to think i was pretty good for modding my mk012s, pulling screens out of ribbons, building a hamptone and circuit bending a bunch of toys...

that's a level of DIY i'm pretty sure i'll never get into.

mrclean · Post by **mrclean** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:24 pm

Thanks for that link!

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:43 pm

badass.

b3groover · Post by **b3groover** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:02 pm

I saw that on the Prodigy forum. Amazing. Wouldn't you love to pick his brain?

GooberNumber9 · Post by **GooberNumber9** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:27 am

Did I miss him flashing the getter or does he not use getters? I didn't see one.

Judas Jetski · Post by **Judas Jetski** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:34 pm

"O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors." That's I Kings 19:4d

...'course I don't have all those shop tools...

...not that I'd ever use them if I did...

But, damn. Let's hear it for the Old School.

Dr.Chewbacca · Post by **Dr.Chewbacca** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:59 pm

Very nice, thank you.

TV Lenny · Post by **TV Lenny** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:10 pm

How I would love to hear those tubes in my amp. Just a shame I'd most likely be the one who's playing.

Thanks!

Tom

(and I thought I was cool by winding my own pickups...)

micyourbrain · Post by **micyourbrain** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:54 am

WOW THAT DUDE IS THE MAN

johnnylojic · Post by **johnnylojic** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:33 am

my lord

kdarr · Post by **kdarr** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:20 pm

GooberNumber9 wrote:Did I miss him flashing the getter or does he not use getters? I didn't see one.

Looks to me like he didn't flash them. Can't really blame him for not wanting to keep barium around the shop, I suppose.

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Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:09 pm

Totally inspiring. Thanks for this. I'll never look at a tube the same way again.

Can tubes be recycled?

Jeff

ckeene · Post by **ckeene** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:25 pm

and I thought winding your own transformers was hard core...

wow. just...wow.

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