[F ROCK]

Screaming high prices for matched pairs.
Not trying to make this political, just pointing out the frenzy.
Checked my stash, I'm ok for now.

HIS was selling tubes, i think.
My father worked at RCA in Camden for 45 years. We had a tube tv/stereo console in use well into the 80's.
I had bushels of tubes in the attic that i'd sold off.
My dad always thought that my love for tube amps was stupid because he had seen the r&d of transistors at RCA. He couldnt hear or feel the difference.

[HoovDaddy]

I built my first stereo from Heathkit. Tube amp and a solid state tuner. My first TV when I moved out was a Heathkit color console with a round picture tube that my dad built in the 60's. We had lots of Heathkit, Allied, and Lafayette electronics. Wish you could still do that.

[67drake]

I had an old Amateur radio when I was young. Every few years I’d have to put new drive tubes in it. Around ‘89 or so I was told they were no longer made, so I just sold it for parts to an amateur operator I know. Who knew 15 or so years later they’d be available again?

[Half-Inch Stud]

F Rock, those are decent tubes.

We have a couple Console Stereos and play the albums daily at dinnertime, and other times.
The shortwave is a Heathkit HW101, and the output tubes are just fine. The spare pair might never get needed.
The tube amps i have or built use 6BG6, 807s, or Taylor TZ-25 Triodes. Rather tired of 6L6, 6V6 for custom amps, but they are fabtastic in original equipment.
The Fender Bass Amp uses the 6L6GCs.
So on occasion i get to building output amps, but now see the need to build turntable preamps!

I do have a few bags of radio and TV tubes to unload. Might toss em!
I do have a Hammond Organ on FB Mktplace for sale with all the trimmings, and a spare set of 6V6s and a 12ax7.

[Mr Anonymous]

I'm a tube fan myself. This old R390A has a bunch. Hi from KE8TXR! (I do have some new gear too)

I grew up on helping my dad fix console TVs and stereos we had. Neighbors gave us their old ones, we scrapped them - kept the tubes and tuners, and burned the stereo cabinets. We put cabinet doors on the console TVs after taking the picture tubes out. Nice piece of furniture afterward.

I miss the rich sound of old console stereos, I have a long term project with a woodworker neighbor to recreate the console stereo I had in my teens. It was an RCA with twin paper 12s and tweeters.

[Shiny]

Uggghhh... hadn't thought about that. I hope they don't disappear. I expect the guitar amp market will create backfill but quality may suffer like most things that are price-driven.

I pulled out my Dynaco pre-amp a few months ago with intent to get it working again - built when I was about 14.

[ta6point6]

Well they say solar flare activity from the sun is increasing better hold onto those vacuum tubes

[burd]

Bad time to sell Russian stuff.

[TAKerry]

My son is now the guitar guy in the family. He was telling me how crazy the whole tube thing is. I have a big Ampeg and always preferred the solid state kustom I had over tube stuff. I guess its a generation thing. I grew up with tubes and when ss came out it seemed so much better.

[Gastiresandoil]

My grandfather was an old electrician. I can remember the day he sold all of his tubes back in the 90's. I remember loading up a whole backseat of someone's car with tubes he had just sold to them.

Still have a couple of his old tube testers with me after all these years. They must be from the late 50's to 60's.

[vertigto]

I've got some old (mainly Sylvania and RCA) 6V6s, EL34s, 7025s, 12AX7s, 12AT7s and a 5U4GB that I've swapped out over the years.

Wouldn't mind picking up a tube tester someday.