[Amps] Source For Eimac Socket Accessories?

[Steve Thompson]

----- Original Message -----
From: David A. Pruett <k8cc at comcast.net>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: 29 June 2003 14:05
Subject: [Amps] Source For Eimac Socket Accessories?


> At Dayton 2002 I picked up a homebrew 8874 amp for 432 MHz.  It appears to
> be a reasonably well built copy of the K1FO amp which was in the October
> 1979 QST and several of the ARRL Handbooks from the early 80s.
>
> The amp was apparently built with the wrong grid collet assembly.
(Perhaps
> the builder used what he had, in the best ham tradition.)  The amp
exhibits
> some operational problems as documented in K1FO's followup article in the
> July 1987 QST, which are traced to the grid collet.
>
> My question is, where can one buy Eimac grid collets and other accessories
> related to power tubes?  The Eimac web site seems to want you to go to
> Richardson Electronics, however Richardson's on-line catalog shows nothing
> resembling the part number which I need.
Call them, there's a lot of stuff they sell that's not on the web site. Make
sure you're sitting down, and have the paperwork for an extension to your
mortgage ready prepared.

73, Steve