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NQ6U
01-23-2011, 02:45 AM
DIY vacuum tubes. Long, but worth watching. This guy is an artiste.

Part 1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl-QMuUQhVM

Part 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S5OwqOXen8
mw0uzo
01-24-2011, 05:10 PM
Yeah I saw this a few years ago - wow.
All that equipment is homemade too by the look of it.
NQ6U
01-24-2011, 05:12 PM
Yeah I saw this a few years ago - wow

Talk about building from scratch, eh?

I first saw this a year or two ago but I ran into it again by accident and thought that people here should know about it if they didn't already.
KG4CGC
01-24-2011, 05:15 PM
Yeah, you were cruising the Zed, by accident!
lulz
N4VGB
01-24-2011, 05:15 PM
Talk about building from scratch, eh?

I first saw this a year or two ago but I ran into it again by accident and thought that people here should know about it if they didn't already.

He's trying to copy the WE300B and become a millionaire overnight.
NQ6U
01-24-2011, 05:31 PM
Yeah, you were cruising the Zed, by accident!
lulz

I didn't see it on the Zed, I found it on YouTube. Never even knew it had been on QRZ.
NQ6U
01-24-2011, 05:32 PM
He's trying to copy the WE300B and become a millionaire overnight.

Yeah, he's definitely on the right track for The Big Bucks! :lol:
KG4CGC
01-24-2011, 05:33 PM
I didn't see it on the Zed, I found it on YouTube. Never even knew it had been on QRZ.
Just got dropped there day before or yesterday ... again.
KG4CGC
01-24-2011, 05:34 PM
Yeah, he's definitely on the right track for The Big Bucks! :lol:
Make the right tubes and it could be possible to eek out a living with the right business plan too.
NQ6U
01-24-2011, 05:39 PM
With all the hand-work involved in making those things, he'd have to charge a huge amount of money for each one. Unless there isn't a mass-produced Chinese or Russian equivalent, I can't see how he could succeed.

Then again, some of the more fringe audiophiles will spend absurd amounts of money for things they imagine makes their equipment sound better. It's possible that they could be fooled into thinking that hand made tubes were the new gold standard when it comes to audio reproduction. Might work with guitarists as well.
WØTKX
01-24-2011, 05:42 PM
Yea, like artistic blown glass skills applied to audio tubes for that old guitar amp. With a new front panel sporting a window, to gaze upon it all.

The "working parts" could be setup for small scale mass production, and shorten the build time... same tube over and over, electrically.

That could be sustainable.
KG4CGC
01-24-2011, 05:43 PM
Yep, marketing and colorful graphs. He could also offer custom tubes for the man with a dream and an idea.
WØTKX
01-24-2011, 05:49 PM
http://74.81.84.8/%7Eaudioalc/amplif/lampi/JJEL34.jpg