Show Us Your Valves (Where's Norm? part 2)

[Alastair Reynolds]

Here we go again...............
955 Acorn Tube, Triode-circa 1939

(sorry Rick, Someone had to do it)

[Chris H]

........that looks like something the doc would use on the syphilis patient.

[Chinagraf]

Interesting that you know about that sort of thing Chris..

[Chris H]

Nah, I'M just well red.

[rick]

christ alastair somehow i think before we start your going to wipe the floor with this one

well there is a certain forum member named norm ... that has a tube fetish
norm ..?

and mr wagga wagga runs the biggest tube shed on this side of the planet is here at times as well
not to mention ..

arhh to hell with it

Rules ..

1. must be audio tubes
2. if they are really big i want to see a 12 ax7 next to it for reference
3. if they are really small same
4. if its really stupidly rare tell us
5. if its stupidly expensive tell us
6. i get to post up the c3m series tubes which are the best audio preamps tubes ever made
and neither gunter nor rob nor alaistair had seen them before i show them one
7 . no further rules till i change my mind

go at it .. i will catch up

[Alastair Reynolds]

Not one that I have,a bit rare for that, but this is where it all started.
The first triodes were known as an Audion, invented by Lee de Forest in 1906.
This example is a production model from 1911.

National Valve Museum is at http://www.r-type.org/

Hopefully Dave's Tube Shed has survived the big wet and I guess we'll have to wait until Norm traverses the Nullabor.

(Where's Norm - part 2 ?)

[wez]

Paging Ross Giles... Ross, you there?

[zenelectro]

6. i get to post up the c3m series tubes which are the best audio preamps tubes ever made
and neither gunter nor rob nor alaistair had seen them before i show them one

They're a bit of a cult tube sometimes used to drive 300b's in a 2 stage SET.

I have to build a pair of 300b mono's for a client and hadn't considered these, being pentodes - maybe I'll
check 'em out.