It Finally happened to me!

[passfan]

I answered a craigslist add for 116 radio tubes for 60 bucks and hit the jackpot. Seems this guys roomate bugged out on him around a year ago and never came back and ...left this bunch of tubes and caps. After going through them I count

Over 50 GE 12au7's with mid 60's date codes
an assortment of 12by7's , 12bh7's and 12dw7's
5 various 5u4g's
5ar4/gz34
5y3
assorted oddball stuff and...

Over 40 various 12ax7's; Sylvania , GE, RCA blackplates, a 5751 with a 56 date code and rectangular getter that looks brand new in the box. I've tasted over half of them in my rocket and picked out around a dozen that are in my wine cellar already.

I think this guys roomate must be dead to have left this stash. There's not a date code later than 66 in the whole lot and a few of the 12ax7's and a couple of 6bq5's say made in Holland. Well worth 60 bucks and a 65 mile round trip to Tampa today.

[Structo]

Score!

[M Fowler]

Sweet find I hope they work good.

[David Root]

Good for you! You would never see that on E-Bay, that's for sure. I must check out craigslist now and then!

If you have a couple spare GE long plate 12AX7s I'd be happy to lighten your load at a fair price. These are good for D-clone PI and I only have one.

[selloutrr]

PM if you need any tubes tested

[billyz]

JACKPOT !

[skyboltone]

I hate you......









Just kidding.
I just scored a Tek 2465 four trace 300mhz scope for $152. It had a bad trace intensity pot. I used to live next door to a guy who worked a warrantee bench at Tektronix for that scope. I had the part. It took 15 minutes. Hehhehhehhehheh. Now I can put a probe on each stage of an amp and see what happens first and why. It's a beautiful thing. I'll sell my old Tek 453 for $152 plus shipping. It's perfect.

[passfan]

I'm really digging it. All the 12au's are long plates. Final 12ax7 count is one RCA black plate and the rest look to be made by GE for RCA. I have about 3 or 4 GE long plates, a couple raytheons made for baldwin and some sylvanias made for baldwin. Some GE shortplates and a couple ITT's made in Germany and G. Britain and 2 hammonds made in holland the rest hammonds marked RCA. I put the gz34 in my rocket along with the 5751 in v1, a made in holland hammond in v2, and a ge long plate in v3, the output tubes are the reflectors with the 5 star cccp markings on the side. Man it sounds sweet.
I sincerely hope you guys have already, or will, experience this at some point. It's neat as all get up.

[solderstain]

Good for you! Congrats. I had a similar experience with a batch of 6V6s several years ago. I'm friends with Jim of Southbay and Scumback/bag fame, and one or the other of us found a BIG stash of old 6V6s somewhere, which we jointly purchased and split between us. GREAT stash of a variety of old 6V6s. I still have most of them in a box under my workbench.

Good fun when you can run across a find like that.

[roadkingbluzs]

Hey, I'm the lost roommate , please send me my tubes back. I will even give refund and and gas money for your troubles