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Not pictured is the entire bucket of them down below.

Not pictured is the entire bucket of them down below.

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That's a mix of common tubes, 12AX4 is a rectifier that was used in a lot of things.Type 816 is an oddball, a mercury vapor rectifier, and the three-digit tubes starting 7 are called loctals. They suffer from problems relating to their thin pins.

The "Standard" tube is a repaint. Some companies used to buy bulk used or other tubes, wash them, and repaint them with their name. They're shit, and may not even work.

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Literal porn for you.

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Porn is bad. Those are simply components, some are interesting for properties other than their use, some need to be thrown away.

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some need to be thrown away.

Like the "birds" outside my window.