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Re: [Amps] Can someone ID this tube and its use ?

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Can someone ID this tube and its use ?
From: "Pete Lancashire" <pete@petelancashire.com>
Reply-to: pete@petelancashire.com
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:09:51 -0700 (PDT)
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>>From the photos, it looked like the glass was stained brown. Is this the
>> case or just the camera/lighting? If so, then it is probably a tube that
>> (like 4PR1000) ran very high voltage, and the darkening is from
>> continuous Xray bombardment. It would have run under oil in that
>> condition, most likely. Is there any scent of oil or residue under the
>> base?

the two I have opened are that colour and it not uniform as if from
bombardment.  I'll take a wiff this weekend. When
I opened the first one the 'horse-hair' packing on the top was falling
apart and smelled like a 1/2 rotted carcass.

-pete




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