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Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 3:13 AM
Subject: RE: [TekScopes] Re: A Vacuum Tube Curve Tracer for all Tek Semiconductor Curve Trace

Have you considered making your own? 1/8" phenolic or fiberglass epoxy sheet is cheap on Ebay, along with various sizes of round acrylic plastic disks. Thread some brass rod, and tap holes in the insulator of you choice. A nut on the reverse side will keep it secure.

If there is enough interest, I could build a batch of them. I have 7 pin, 9 pin, and other tubes to use as models. I may still have some of the rare 10 in, which is a nine pin plus a single center pin which was used for some mixer applications. Noval and Compactron bases can be made the same way.

I will be making some four pin plugs the make connectors for some obsolete batteries this way. The fun part is that the battery has the male pins, with 90VDC on two of the pins so I will add a switch to disable it until the plug is seated into the recessed connector.

Here is a scan of an old Amphenol catalog that contains older tube sockets for your reference:

http://www.tubebooks.org/file_downloads/Amphenol.pdf

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From: "'Dennis Tillman' dennis@ridesoft.com [TekScopes]"
<TekScopes@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mar 26, 2017 10:45 PM
To: TekScopes@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [TekScopes] Re: A Vacuum Tube Curve Tracer for all Tek
Semiconductor Curve Trace

Hi Bill,
In my case I needed tube PLUGS that would plug into a tube SOCKET. That
is my problem.

I am well aware of Tubesandmore. They certainly have a nice selection
of 4 pin, 5 pin, 7 pin, 8 pin , and 9 pin tube SOCKETS. Unfortunately
other than
8 pin tube PLUGS they, or anyone else for that matter, do not sell 7
pin miniature tube PLUGS or 9 pin miniature PLUGS. Since 7 pin
miniature tubes and 9 pin miniature tubes have their pins coming right
out of the glass envelope this will make it very hard to get what I
need by smashing spent tubes to try and get an intact set of pins around the base of the tube.

As John Gord pointed out one way to find some of these is by searching
for socket savers. They, too, are scarce these days. Not many people
are designing things with tubes. There was a 9 pin and a 7 pin socket
saver auction on Ebay and I bid $28 for them but someone outbid me. I
have no way to know how high that person's ultimate bid might have been.

Dennis Tillman, W7PF

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TekScopes] Re: A Vacuum Tube Curve Tracer for all Tek
Semiconductor Curve Trace

Dennis and all,
Has everyone been overlooking the best source for tubes and related
hardware?

https://www.tubesandmore.com/products/tube_accessories
Bill
KB3DKS

-----Original Message-----
From: 'Dennis Tillman' dennis@ridesoft.com [TekScopes]
<TekScopes@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Mar 22, 2017 10:06 am

Hi John,
Thanks for the suggestion. I know I kept coming across octal socket
savers all the time but I never saw a 7 pin or 9 pin socket saver. I
will give that a try.
Dennis Tillman W7PF

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 5:06 PM
Subject: RE: [TekScopes] Re: A Vacuum Tube Curve Tracer for all Tek
Semiconductor Curve Trace

Try a Google search for "7 pin socket saver". I got some hits. 9 pin
socket savers seem to be more common. It looks like at least some of
the socket savers could be disassembled.
--John Gord
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