[Amps] Weird tubes in an amplifier

[Fuqua, Bill L]

  I also ran 4 6AG7s in grounded grid. Slowly conditioned them by raising  the plate voltage to
1kV. My 200 Watt lamp dummy load got quite hot. I tried one first and then got a large block of
aluminum that I drilled four 1 inch holes into.  Then using a carbide saw blade that my father had
on his table saw, I slotted the block to make fins. I mounted it on a chassis with a color TV power 
transformer and voltage doubler. My filter capacitors were some AC run capacitors I got from
a scrap pile at a heating and air conditioner shop. I only had a few Watts drive from my 
CE10A. I had bandswitched it since it only came with a 80 meter coil set. So my output was
not coupling was not ideal. 
  It worked well from 80 to 20 meters but could not get much output on 15.
I still have the heatsink but can't find the rest of it.
73
Bill wa4lav

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Weird tubes in an amplifier

When I was a kid I built a linear amp running four 6AG7s, from an
article in CQ. The author had discovered that the nominal 3W plate
dissipation of the 6AG7 could be pushed to 100W. The tubes  got
so hot the black paint blistered. As I recall, the tube life was
measured in minutes, not hours. (Those were the days when
Burstein-Applebee sold JAN 1625s for $0.25.) I'm sure some of you guys
remember the article!
73,
Jim W8ZR

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> On Jan 28, 2014, at 9:50 PM, William Turner <dezrat1242 at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
>
>> On 1/28/2014 7:24 PM, Mark wrote:
>> Just when I thought I had heard of almost every type of tube in an amplifier
>
> Betcha you never saw an amplifier with a 6SJ7 as the final. When I was a poverty-stricken teenager, that was what I used on 40 meters. Three watts DC input and I worked the east coast from California. I was so proud I almost hurt myself smiling.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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