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Let's see what tubey goodness is in this thrift store find

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BmWr75

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It is a Lafayette CB radio.........cost $7.

Here's the tube compliment, all Matsushita made in Japan, except the Realistic gold pin 6BQ5.

two 6BL8A
two 6GH8A
three 6BA6
one 6AQ5 (not pictured)
one 6BQ5/EL84
one 12AX7/ECC83
one 12AT7/ECC81

Not bad for $7. Have not tested them yet, but the getter looks new on all of them.
 

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Reminds me of when I was perusing a shop down the road of a fellow that bought old estates and resold everything. For a while he had a good assotment of LPs especially jazz. Anyway he got a console in that had a Fisher receiver in it, priced at $250. It was one purpose built for a console and the other components really were not worth my time or effort. I was wondering how I could check out the receiver without giving anything away to him. I went to discuss it and told him the only thing worth recovering in the console was the receiver and it needed attention before using. During our conversation I looked down to see a drinking glass full of signal tubes, probably from the console. All Mullard and Telefunken with a price of $10 for the glass tubes included. Happy day!
 
Comstat 25A. Those aren't terrible radios if you're into that sort of thing, though some of the better models had a 6BQ5 for the audio tube as well as the RF output tube. The RF tube is usually well worn, so I wouldn't expect miracles out of that one. The ventilation in those things was also pretty bad, so it did no favors for tube life. The few of those I've owned got so hot you could fry an egg on the lid after about an hour. If you actually talked on it, it was about a half hour. I don't know how the paint didn't just bake off of those things. I think they were actually made by Kenwood (Trio) for a ton of companies. I know that basic chassis carried at least a half dozen different brand names.
 
Tested the tubes today. Turns out only three of them were good, but they were the 6BQ5, 12AX7 and one of the 6GH8As.

Could see pin connections burnt up in many of the others.
 
I guess that you really won't find out exectly how "GOOD" the good ones
are until you actually plug them into an amp circuit to test, listen & evaluate.
Overall your purhase was well worth the $7. Cheers
 
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