Whats the screwiest thing you collect?

From: LordTyran <a2k_at_one.net>
Date: Sat Nov 27 17:29:09 1999

On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:

> [vacuum tube failures can be spectacular]
>
> I DID get to see a modern radio-transmitting tube about 3 weeks ago. It was the size of a lunch box. It wasn't a final tube though - I was told the AM final
> tubes are about the size of my head. It had a metal jacket so you couldn't
> see inside it, but it weighed a hefty amount. It went to some unknown FM
> broadcast transmitter.
Biggest one I've seen was about 2 dm. in diametre and about 4 dm. tall.

100K.W. (Don't get too close :)

It actually looked like a small lighthouse.. ribbed metal at the bottom
with a glass section at the top. Probably lighed up like one, too.

Kevin
Received on Sat Nov 27 1999 - 17:29:09 GMT