On Tue, 18 Nov 97 12:14:38 -0800 Rich Measures <measures@vc.net> writes:
>The 8877 I selected for opening this morning appears to be an example
>of
>the problem Mr. Erhorn described. There was only 2 uA of leakage at
>9kV.
> I removed the anode cooler. As expected, there were no gold
>blisters
>on the grid. The cathode coating was pristine. The fatal
>cathode/grid
>short was pretty obviously caused by a manufacturing defect. . .
>In
>the good old days when 2 amateur radio operators named Eitel and
>McCullough owned Eimac, this tube would have been replaced even though
>it
>was out of warranty.
That would appear to be a prime candidate for your Web page photo
collection Rich....it would at least be a change....
73 Carl KM1H
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