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0culus · « **Reply #49375 on:** February 10, 2020, 03:31:09 am »

Just read on the TekScopes list that Stan Griffiths W7NI has become a silent key. For those less familiar, he cofounded the VintageTEK museum.

http://terac.org/?p=1958

https://vintagetek.org/home-2/

WastelandTek · « **Reply #49376 on:** February 10, 2020, 03:45:54 am »

oh no

worsthorse · « **Reply #49377 on:** February 10, 2020, 03:58:31 am »

Quote from: 0culus on February 10, 2020, 03:31:09 am

Just read on the TekScopes list that Stan Griffiths W7NI has become a silent key. For those less familiar, he cofounded the VintageTEK museum.

http://terac.org/?p=1958

https://vintagetek.org/home-2/

Stan passed away a week or so ago. I had a chance to hang out with him at the last Salem hamfest. He told a lot of great stories about selling and using Tek gear and I bought a couple of cans of the Tek spray paint he had custom made and packaged. He was a sweet guy.

WastelandTek · « **Reply #49378 on:** February 10, 2020, 04:09:58 am »

anybody know much about the HP 8555A / 8552B / 141T setup?

https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/ele/d/seattle-hp-8555a-rf-8552b-if-spectrum/7064931343.html

0culus · « **Reply #49379 on:** February 10, 2020, 04:20:24 am »

Quote from: worsthorse on February 10, 2020, 03:58:31 am

Quote from: 0culus on February 10, 2020, 03:31:09 am
Just read on the TekScopes list that Stan Griffiths W7NI has become a silent key. For those less familiar, he cofounded the VintageTEK museum.

http://terac.org/?p=1958

https://vintagetek.org/home-2/

Stan passed away a week or so ago. I had a chance to hang out with him at the last Salem hamfest. He told a lot of great stories about selling and using Tek gear and I bought a couple of cans of the Tek spray paint he had custom made and packaged. He was a sweet guy.

That's awesome! Don't tell med about the paint though.

0culus · « **Reply #49380 on:** February 10, 2020, 04:22:27 am »

Quote from: WastelandTek on February 10, 2020, 04:09:58 am

anybody know much about the HP 8555A / 8552B / 141T setup?

https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/ele/d/seattle-hp-8555a-rf-8552b-if-spectrum/7064931343.html

Assuming all the geared controls are in good shape, $125 isn't a terrible price at all. Keep in mind that it's got precisely zero of the modern niceties that the 8566 and 8568 series analyzers have. If you don't mind those limitations, it's an awesome boat anchor!

beanflying · « **Reply #49381 on:** February 10, 2020, 04:27:23 am »

Bench Dog of another sort. Rolled in and covered in MDF sawdust off the router had a walk now time I to pass her back my Mum so she can jump on her bed and share the experience.

Yes I am a bad Son

Bosch base working well too

VK5RC · « **Reply #49382 on:** February 10, 2020, 04:52:14 am »

Quote from: Mortymore on February 09, 2020, 09:38:59 pm

Quote from: BravoV on February 09, 2020, 04:55:25 pm
Just realized, many of TEA regulars here, own Tek 24x5 A/B/plain, aren't we ?

I'm a mere observer here, but I have my admission pass

(Attachment Link)

I need to pick up my game my mid age Tek, it's a 2246, I use it when looking at vacuum tubes and don't want to fry my good scope!

med6753 · « **Reply #49383 on:** February 10, 2020, 05:03:48 am »

Quote from: 0culus on February 10, 2020, 04:20:24 am

Quote from: worsthorse on February 10, 2020, 03:58:31 am
Quote from: 0culus on February 10, 2020, 03:31:09 am
Just read on the TekScopes list that Stan Griffiths W7NI has become a silent key. For those less familiar, he cofounded the VintageTEK museum.

http://terac.org/?p=1958

https://vintagetek.org/home-2/

Stan passed away a week or so ago. I had a chance to hang out with him at the last Salem hamfest. He told a lot of great stories about selling and using Tek gear and I bought a couple of cans of the Tek spray paint he had custom made and packaged. He was a sweet guy.

That's awesome! Don't tell med about the paint though.

Yea, I was aware that Stan had passed. The old Tek guard is passing into history. First it was Dean Kidd and now Stan. I had posted a few weeks ago that Stan was ill and he put his collection up for sale and the audiophool tube raiders just about raped every piece of the equipment of their vacuum tubes.

0culus · « **Reply #49384 on:** February 10, 2020, 05:05:13 am »

What the hell. Why.

med6753 · « **Reply #49385 on:** February 10, 2020, 05:13:45 am »

Quote from: 0culus on February 10, 2020, 05:05:13 am

What the hell. Why.

There were posts in the Facebook group "Old Tek Scopes" about not much left after the audiophools did their tube raids. Money talks and apparently they came with it.

Just like the asshole I saw on Ebay recently with a Tek scope for sale and he purposely mentioned that it had "Bugle Boy" tubes in it to excite the audio crowd into buying it and discarding the chassis.

My 535A has some Mullards in it but I haven't run into any Bugle Boys but none the less it's a tempting target for these clowns.

med6753 · « **Reply #49386 on:** February 10, 2020, 05:27:37 am »

How valuable are Bugle Boy vacuum tubes? Check this out.....

https://www.tubedepot.com/products/amperex-bugle-boy-ecc83-12ax7

"There's a sucker born every minute"

0culus · « **Reply #49387 on:** February 10, 2020, 05:30:05 am »

$350 for that? They still make those damn tubes in Russia and China. Leave the test gear alone!

med6753 · « **Reply #49388 on:** February 10, 2020, 05:33:23 am »

I defy any of these audio jerks to tell an audible difference between a run of the mill RCA 12AX7 and an Amprex 12AX7. 99.9% of them can't. It's all in their pea brain head.

0culus · « **Reply #49389 on:** February 10, 2020, 05:40:14 am »

It’s worse than that since you can literally buy new 12AX7s. I have a guitar amp with three of them. They sound perfectly fine, no way would I spend several hundred dollars on tubes when I can still get new ones.

med6753 · « **Reply #49390 on:** February 10, 2020, 05:46:36 am »

I was surprised when the Heath OL-1 and Heath V-7A that Kosmic sent me had Mullard 12AX7 and 12AU7 in them. Just shows you that in reality they ain't nothing special if Heath used them along with RCA/GE.

WastelandTek · « **Reply #49391 on:** February 10, 2020, 06:37:10 am »

Quote from: 0culus on February 10, 2020, 05:30:05 am

$350 for that? They still make those damn tubes in Russia and China. Leave the test gear alone!

put the new production tubes in the test gear, cheapest Chinese ones you can get, to protect it

the guitar guys are NOT going to stop sucking up every old production long plate they can find until someone actually spends the money to manufacture tubes that sound like that in that application

grizewald · « **Reply #49392 on:** February 10, 2020, 06:51:31 am »

Quote from: med6753 on February 10, 2020, 05:33:23 am

I defy any of these audio jerks to tell an audible difference between a run of the mill RCA 12AX7 and an Amprex 12AX7. 100% of them can't. It's all in their pea brain head.

FTFY

Otherwise you could be seen to be encouraging them with the suggestion that 0.1% can actually tell the difference.

bd139 · « **Reply #49393 on:** February 10, 2020, 07:36:51 am »

I say kick ‘em in the fucking balls the vulture bastards.

How to make the TEA thread angry: https://youtu.be/IN7knjXITzI

I registered my objection.

beanflying · « **Reply #49394 on:** February 10, 2020, 07:43:45 am »

I think the insertion into appropriate orifice's might help the verbal diarrhea that is Audio Foolery.

Audio Noise Stoppers anyone

The Description is important to read as it explains the pseudo non sciencey stuff.... eBay auction: #293078533933

If you were on Discord on the weekend you would already know this too

Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

med6753 · « **Reply #49395 on:** February 10, 2020, 07:55:25 am »

I've watched a few of his videos and while sometimes he has some good stuff I think overall he's an arrogant jerk who drinks too much wine.

But that's going too far. That HP should be fully restored as is. It wouldn't take much, it's in good shape. There's plenty of guitar amps out there.

Unfortunately if you look at the comments most are in favor of ripping into it. We are the minority.

bd139 · « **Reply #49396 on:** February 10, 2020, 08:00:18 am »

Nailed it. If I see a cheap classic guitar amp I’m going to eviscerate it on YouTube and crush the audio tubes.

beanflying · « **Reply #49397 on:** February 10, 2020, 08:01:13 am »

There is a few additional negative comments now

The assumption and basic premise he opens with are

to cover the destruction and re modelling. Maybe we should suggest he add a light bulb on top and call it steampunk

med6753 · « **Reply #49398 on:** February 10, 2020, 08:03:00 am »

Quote from: bd139 on February 10, 2020, 08:00:18 am

Nailed it. If I see a cheap classic guitar amp I’m going to eviscerate it on YouTube and crush the audio tubes.

Do it! Perhaps add a cherry bomb or two?

bd139 · « **Reply #49399 on:** February 10, 2020, 08:04:22 am »

@beanflying - nice work

Reminds me of this:


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