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Re: [Amps] Pre-heating of tubes

To: craxd1@verizon.net, g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk,amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Pre-heating of tubes
From: Peter Chadwick <g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk>
Reply-to: g3rzp@g3rzp.wanadoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:12:03 +0200 (CEST)
List-post: <mailto:amps@contesting.com>
Hi Will,
Tubal Cain is dead now. He was a guy called Tom Walsh, a G2 plus 2, whow as 
very well known in model engineering circles.
You said: >Check again and see if that isn't degrees F your quoting.<
Now the Mullard data sheet on the TY2-125 triode says that the anode runs at 
bright red and specifies that as 850 deg C. 'Machinery's Handbook' - admittedly 
the 1924 edition, but I don't suppose it's changed! - says a 'full red heat' is 
'about 1475 to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.' That I make a bit over 800 deg C. Lead 
melts at 327 deg C, and molten lead isn't red hot. Indeed, going to 
'Machinery's' again, we see molten lead for used for tempering for some 
applications.
My case rests!
73
Peter G3RZP
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