Congrats, I got lots of old 45's and many old tubes. Wish I had a market for them instead of them getting thrown away some day.
Oh man, I just met the McArthur base museum guy who is restoring the entire old bunker radio room system. He has an entire ROOM filled with awesome old spare vacuum tubes and is getting everything running again! Speaking of tubes. TUBULAR, man.
Remember the tube testing thing at Thrifty's? Good times. Dad fixed several TV sets using that thing. And then he build a better one than what we had, because he was fucking handy like that. He tried to teach me, but the stereo I built under his tutelage caught FIRE. derp. Turns out it was a REALLY bad .. thingy. Not a resistor... it looked like a pez with wires coming out of it, shit, maybe it was a resistor. It was at fault and not really me, but I felt pretty defeated for a time and just focused on internal combustion engines for awhile... GOOD FUCKING TIMES!!!
Super classic! Ours was more like one of these (fws-files.s3.amazonaws.com)
But I had it wired into our sound system which I considered to be pretty cool at the time.
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