JJ 6L6G tube???

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JJ 6L6G tube???

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Do any of you guys now anything about these tubes. Are they just early mis marked GC's?

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Re: JJ 6L6G tube???

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Early 6L6 tube. 6L6, 6L6G, 6L6GA, 6L6GB, and 6L6GC.
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He only 6l6G's I'm aware of are the old coke bottle ones. Hmmm this looks like a new tube. I sent an email to JJ electronics to see if they have any info .
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I googled and I am a good googler. I think you are right about markings and I think they may have been for an OEM because all I see is a couple pairs and a single sextet of pulls.
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Reeltarded wrote:I googled and I am a good googler. I think you are right about markings and I think they may have been for an OEM because all I see is a couple pairs and a single sextet of pulls.

So you did find some marked 6L6G? Can you send me a link to where you found them. I found these in a 1985 Fender Concert Series 2 amplifier I just services.

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There is a quad on reverb and I saw a sextet link on google.. they are all used up and the printing is charred.

I searched: JJ tubes "6L6G"

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I did find an ended sale for a quad at Reverb.com.
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I bet they are OEM stuff or early production tubes. Mine didn't have any stickers on the base just like the ones in the pics.
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I think they are OEM for some euro builder. I like these kinds of hunts. It's a window into manufacture and distribution networks..

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The eBay listing shows specs for 6L6GC's in the description. Neither describe them as OEM . Hmm
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They wouldn't know since the tubes probably came from other devices previously and since JJ doesn't have specs for a 6l6G we will accuse them of what they always do..

Make a million 6l6 tubes and then mark them as every similar tube that won't probably kill your amp with current draw.. maybe.

I saw a guy running 520v on underbiased JJ 6v6s. hah
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I biased them conservatively at 37ma per tube with 484vdc on the plates. The owner said the amp sounded great.
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To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: "that's not a 6L6G this is a 6L6G!"

Bet it's just some poop JJ silk screened for someone selling tweed clones. Instead of a zero-assed effort they could have made a half-assed effort, if only for shits and giggles, stuck their husky 6V6 guts into their 2A3 glass, which is sort of ST-ish and called it a 6L6G. But that probably would have pissed me off even more :twisted:

When are metal tubes gonna get the retro-treatment?
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^^^^^

All that! lol
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