I was gonna list this 811A tube on fleabay, mostly for grins, not so much for profit. Yet another listing that starts with "It's dead, Jim".
Just a bit better than cluttering the local landfill. Until it rolled off the bench and onto the floor with a resounding "POP!", tinkle.
One bright spot, it makes the carnage a lot more visible with that pesky reflective glass out of the way.
I have come to see this as the natural state of the 811A tube. It's rare to find a user who treats it gently enough to survive service in a ham linear.
The oppposite side of the anode isn't quite as clobbered, but still has a hole in it.
But if you hold the light just right you can see the grid wires through the blow hole.
Probably not suitable for fleabay now. But definitely easier to photograph.
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Just a bit better than cluttering the local landfill. Until it rolled off the bench and onto the floor with a resounding "POP!", tinkle.
One bright spot, it makes the carnage a lot more visible with that pesky reflective glass out of the way.
I have come to see this as the natural state of the 811A tube. It's rare to find a user who treats it gently enough to survive service in a ham linear.
The oppposite side of the anode isn't quite as clobbered, but still has a hole in it.
But if you hold the light just right you can see the grid wires through the blow hole.
Probably not suitable for fleabay now. But definitely easier to photograph.
73
