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Subject: [AMPS] Opening tubes for inspection
From: sm2cew@telia.com (Peter Sundberg)
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:12:26 +0200
Rich,

How do you open the cheramic seal tubes to inspect them when they are dead ? 
Have a couple of interesting ones laying on the shelf...

73
Peter
SM2CEW


> Contrary to innuendo noted on this reflector some weeks ago, 
>I've never seen "gold balls" in any power tube used in any ALPHA or ETO 
>medical or industrial amplifier - not an 8874, 8877, 3CX800A7, 3CPX5000A7, 
> 4CX800A or other tube. 
? If one opens leaky tubes to see what's what, the warranty is voided. 
> Neither I nor any other ETO/ALPHA employee so far 
>as I know has ever learned of any such event from any credible source, 
? There are some photographs of gold sputtered tubes in the September 
1990 issue of *QST*. 


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