how its made...

[surfsup]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amZbwlglbto

[Colossal]

Truly very cool to see the process broken into a series of clever steps. Real art. Hey, what do you do for a living? I hand make vacuum tubes...down at the Olde Vacuum Tubery.

[Structo]

Cool video.

Holy crap, those 845's are huge!

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KR Audio is in Prauge, Czech Republic.

http://www.kraudio.com/


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[Teleguy61]

And on sale for a grand, give or take.
http://tubedepot.com/kr-845.html

[rock_mumbles]

I'm pretty sure that my $7 ea Chinese 12AX7's are hand built like that ...

[Structo]

I'm pretty sure that my $7 ea Chinese 12AX7's are hand built like that ...

[jeff12]

[quote="Structo"]Cool video.

Holy crap, those 845's are huge!

I remember seeing ones like these in school.
5 foot tall watercooled.

[Structo]

Wow!

What kind of gear was that in? Radio transmitter?

[jeff12]

Wow!

What kind of gear was that in? Radio transmitter?

Yeah it was a big radio transmitter.

[Super_Reverb]

Don't mean to cast aspersions, but isn't using these BFTs - some how, some way - an attempt to compensate for some other shortcoming? [Freud mode = off]



rob