Telefunken is now Telebroken
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Telefunken is now Telebroken
I was working on my 183 clone last night with a nice Telefunken in V1. Kind of an expensive tube. I was tightening a screw and when I was done, I just nicked the tit on end of the tube with a small screwdriver as i was putting it down. Wouldn't you know it? Knocked the tit right off. Telefunken is now Telebroken. Bummer...Any experiences or ideas any of you more experienced guys want to share? I suppose I could go to great lengths to pull a vacuum again, but it doesn't seem worth it.
Re: Telefunken is now Telebroken
Did that to a Mazda recently. I don't deserve these tubes.
Early last week I thought I should try some cork sniffing and rolled my way through about forty different EL84s for an SE amp. The winner by a long way, even over several TFKs, was a humble Telam. So I carefully cleaned the pins to prepare for some earth shattering rocking and promptly broke pin 9 clean off!
It is safer not to roll around. Just plug and go.
Early last week I thought I should try some cork sniffing and rolled my way through about forty different EL84s for an SE amp. The winner by a long way, even over several TFKs, was a humble Telam. So I carefully cleaned the pins to prepare for some earth shattering rocking and promptly broke pin 9 clean off!
It is safer not to roll around. Just plug and go.
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Re: Telefunken is now Telebroken
This is why we can't have nice things!
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Re: Telefunken is now Telebroken
The one that sticks with me was an old set of RCA 6550 matched pair. I didn't take the time to examine the key and just assumed when the tube socket excepted the tube it was in the correct pins. ... Not so much It lit up, sparked, and took out the tube, OT and everything within 6" of the tube.
Now I double check the key.
Now I double check the key.
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