Any collectors out there?!
June 24, 2024A PBRTV reader has approached me with a unique request. Do we have any collectors out there who visit this website? Or perhaps a repair person in their waning years looking for something to make the “ole toy” work one more time?
Eric, Hope all is well. I’m not sure if this is appropriate for your FB page, but I have a high school classmate who found boxes of radio and TV tubes while cleaning out her folks’ home in Murrysville. Wanted to know if anyone wanted them before she pitches them. – Bill
We’d love to help connect the right person to these devices, but it looks like time is of the essance. If you have any interest, please email me – info@pbrtv.com or call me 412-695-3428 as soon as possible and I will put Bill in touch with you.
I would check with these guys. https://pittsburghantiqueradiosociety.org/
Good idea, don’t throw away old tubes, there are only a few types being made today, for specialized applications like guitar amps, and hi-fi pre- and power amps, otherwise tubes are used for replacement in old equipment or electronics experimentation, because of some unique qualities that they have.
I started with tube tech, at a time when solid state had taken over electronics and you could get tubes and tube gear for nothing, it was practically worthless and being put out for trash every week, and I’d bike around and bring home tube radios and TVs, and friends of my parents would give them to me. I built AM receivers and transmitters out of them.
Boomer