Tag Archives: triode

How to Make a Vacuum Tube from Scratch

Posted on July 17, 2012 by jwk

This French radio amateur takes the classical ingenuity of radio amateurs everywhere to an incredible level, creating his own triodes similar to those used in the 1920s from scratch. Watch!

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Antique Tube Box Art

Posted on March 15, 2012 by jwk

I took a gamble on a box-lot of parts from Craigslist, and it turned out to be an excellent find. One of the things I found was a collection of tubes in their original boxes from 1926. That doesn’t happen … Continue reading →

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