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Originally Posted by Electronic M
I sort of do the same thing....The stuff I've had the longest are in caddies sorted by number and tested. After that is is an unsorted mix of boxed NOS, and semi-sorted loose pulls (some stored in boxes after the caddys filled)...The pulls are sorted by type (HV diodes sweep power tubes, 7 pin, 9 pin octal/loctal signal, fat pin) A caddy FILLED with un-boxed loose pulls can get heavy fast.  |
Many of us could probably cull our loose/unboxed tube collection by:
1. testing all the HV rectifiers 1B3-1X2-1V2-3A3 etc weeds out the open filaments at least. Id hate to stick a bad one in a working set.
2. testing all the damper tubes for gas-shorts again where fails are obvious on a simple tester
3. Testing 5U4's and sweep tubes in a working set. emission testers miss often the bad ones
4. Run a quick shorts-gas test on all the common triodes and pentodes 6CG7, 12AU7, 6SN7, 6CB6....