HUGE VACUUM TUBE COLLECTION
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2023
- This is the big project I have been working on the past month. Finally finished and here is the result! This tube collection is mostly donated by Carlton, who has been collecting tubes for many years, especially the past ten years or so. Several other people have also donated to the collection. I will maintain the collection until I am no longer able to, hopefully for another 20 years or longer.
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What an awesome collection. It looks great.
i am unsure, but within the klystrons, there may have been the type that acted as the high speed switch that sequence the firing of the first atomic bomb.
Good to see you back. We miss you when you're gone
Thanks for the virtual tour. Wonderful collection. I pray your collection is passed on to a museum so future generations can appreciate this technology .
I worked at a Westinghouse vacuum tube facility in the 80’s, where I experienced first hand the assembly of such tubes. People don’t realize what is involved making such tubes, Ron you make it look too easy. Most people have never seen a glass lathe, vac-ion pump, getter flasher, aging rack , etc.
Thank you for preserving this piece of history.f
I love sharing this old and new technology, most of my colleagues have passed and their skill and knowledge has gone with them. I wish you were my neighbor.
There's a UA-cam channel called Signal Ditch where the guy is doing a lot of research into buying parts for making vacuum tubes and building his own vacuum lathe.
When I was a little kid the neighbor threw out an old TV set - I took it home and then took it apart and found all these tubes inside. Along with the TV was an RCA Receiving Tube Manual. The TV itself was a Heathkit. I started building Tube circuits when I was 12. Good times!
Ron, you are incredibly skilled. I’m sure if you wanted to, you could build a time machine.💡👨🏻🦲💡🙂
Just needs the flux capacitor.
Simply amazing... well done to all who were involved. In time, I hope a national museum will be interested enough to take over stewardship of this unique collection of historical artefacts.
Nice to see you back. Hope you are well.
Ron. Your knowledge is outstanding.
OMG!!! I have now seen heaven. Pull up a chair, pull a vacuum, and prepare to have your mind absolutely blown. Please do not fail to put one interrupted hour aside and watch all of this unique presentation of the world-class collection. All hail the Glasslinger!
Socket to me, and thanks for this outstanding video.
I am tube collector from Ukraine. One of the biggest (or biggest?) private tube and ionic devices collection in the country. Collected over 30 years. But it is just in boxes, no time to describe it in database, looking as warehouse, not so nice like yours )
Sorry your country is being trashed! We here in the USA don't agree with what is going on. Not one thing we can do about it. The USA governmnet is a separate evil entity unto itself and does whatever suits it!
The German multivalve tubes shown at 30:00 have an interesting backstory. During the 1920s, Germany heavily taxed radio receivers. The annual tax levy was based on the number of tubes in the receiver. In order to end run the tax man, Loewe Audion GmbH of Kronach, Germany stuffed three triodes, two capacitors and four resistors into a single vacuum envelope to create a functional 'one tube' radio receiver, reducing the tax by two thirds. The discrete resistors and capacitors were sealed in individual glass tubes so as not to contaminate the vacuum through outgassing. All three filaments were connected in series so that if one went out, they all did. Loewe actually offered a filament repair service, so these tubes must have been relatively expensive. The first of these was the 3NF and was technically the world's first integrated circuit, beating Jack Kilby's silicon version by more than thirty years. I have one of these in my collection.
The tubes were $2000 each. They test good.
Amazing collection! Regarding semiconductors and availability, my rule of thumb is that if you can see it without a magnifying glass then it probably isn’t available these days.
It's really interesting to think how these large components have been replaced by microscopic silicon based components. Nice collection!
A series of tubes that would make Ted Stevens proud 😅
This must be one of the best collections of old tubes in the world. Thank you for sharing it.
This is absolutely FASCINATING! What an amazing assortment. I'm elated that you are still making videos, and wish you good health. Keep up the great work!
My buddy, Geoff, reckons he has 250,000 vacuum tubes for stereo gear. But he's not entirely sure, because he has been collecting them for three decades without documenting his collection properly. I think he also has 70+ cars. Crazy stuff!
That Soviet tube ФЭУ-2 seen at 3:58 is a single cascade photomultiplier with antimony-cesium photocathode. It was widely used in film equipment audio amplifiers as audio track photodetector and in different measuring and control units.
I have one of these in my 1956 Lomo Kinap Cinema amplifier. It sits inside of an opening in the amplifier. The opening can be closed off with a metal shutter. It appears that the projector would have originally been designed to sit on top of the amp and the film reel run past this window. I dont understand what the job of the tube would be in relation to the film reel though. Can you explain? does the film reel contain audio content too? Or does it send a signal to the amp to turn on/off at the correct moments? Would love to understand more!
It would be a travesty if your collection and intellectual property were to be lost or destroyed upon your passing. I hope you have secured a foundation or other trusted entity to save your work. I have seen too many beautiful collections relegated to the dumpster because the family of the deceased had no concept of the value, or where there were no heirs remaining.
May you live a long and healthy
life. Have you ever considered writing a book of your life work. ?
Regards
Dave from Florida
That's my biggest fear.
That's a fabulous tube collection. Some of those I've only seen pictures of in old Basic Electronics books from like the 60's. It's fantastic to see them for real.
I love that you got all these weird tubes documenting the full history of tubes, I don't even know what half of your tubes are used for. My collection is mostly various types of audio and radio tubes.
This is one of the BEST tube videos out there. It is a shame we couldn't see the caged tyrathrons?. Excellent video, boss!
At 6:24, the transistor at the far right with the red-green-violet dots is a Bell Labs 1752, the first junction transistor from around 1951, and very rare! I've wanted one of those for my collection for a long time!
Is the red-green-violet sequence a backwards resistor color code? Because from right to left that would be 752....
I love how you were 'surprised' by the other side of the wall.. You can tell when someone loves something :)
Thanks Ron. You never fail to amaze and entertain me, You are a UA-cam treasure Sir. (And yes I always learn something)
Excellent job! I'm glad you're online again!
Fascinating! That German multi-element tube at 31:00 is the original integrated circuit! With an integrated detector and audio amplifier, It did more than Robert Noyce's solid state IC invention in 1958.
Mr Carlson would be in heaven, this is a beautiful collection, keep up the good work.
Thanks for showing us your wonderful tube collection, Ron.
I was fascinated to see the Loewe 3NF Multi-valve
Those things must be incredibly rare.
Hi Ron.
So nice to see a new upload from you. I can stop worrying about you!
I will enjoy this video in the morning with my coffe. Stay safe and best wishes to you and the pussycat. xxxx
same..i'm also worried about ron..but thankfully he's fine.
Goodness me Ron, that is the most insane collection of tubes. Good luck with the dusting! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Ruddy hell Ron, so tats what you’ve been up to for the last 5 months😂. And I bet you have a load more in boxes in another room.. new old stock!
But really, that must the most comprehensive tube collection in the world.
amazing, fascinating, brilliant collection!
53 minutes, and it could have been twice as long.
Very nice. A lot of boat anchors were sunk to harvest them tubes huh.
Much of those can be appreciated as art pieces, even if they don't work. I work often with guitar amps, so those tubes are more common types. Thanks for sharing.
That’s an amazing tube collection! Thank you for the walk through and info. This will help me identify some of my odd tubes.
So thrilled to see more from you; you were missed!!!
What an amazing collection Ron.I was just thinking about you the other day, wondering how you were. Good to see another video
25:04 The EM 87 modulation indicator valves are very popular in UK reel to reel recorders.
That's an impressive collection, Ron. 👍
This is breath taking. What an amazing collection and more impressive the knowledge of what they are.
Wow what a varied collection of tubes! My mother worked at G.E. Bridgeport Connecticut during WW2! She assembled radios and Radar sets for the Army Airforce (B29) bomber and she also worked on assembling the remote control analog computer that operated the remote gunnery control systems. She often talked about working with those "Pencil tubes" which was a "TOP SECRET" development back then during WW2.
Thank you Ron, for sharing with usyour most valuable treasures: your tubes collection and your huge knowledge. Nice, rare and beautiful. Sadly, it is not open to the public. Maybe one day...
Would love a more detailed description and lesson and history on each of the tube types. Especially the various microwave tube. Traveling wave, klystron, etc. Will you consider making such video series Ron? Please!
Very impressive and so well organized.
When the Sun finally hits us with the big solar storm and annihilates our semiconductor universe, we'll know who to come to save us. The actual instructions for making tubes will probably be lost, but these examples could resurrect an industry. Impressive collection.
Could spend days looking through all that
I own a few of these! The Dalibor nixie's, geiger tube, some klystrons, some magnetrons, nixies, and more ! So cool!
Wow! When I started watching, I didn't think I would watch much of it, but I couldn't stop. Watched all of it, with detours to Google for such things as Acorn tubes and the histories of Raytheon and Marconi. Well done, Glasslinger, you are a treasure.
Go Ron, what an amazing collection. It’s in the best of hands now. Imagine the story some of those tubes hold.
Thanks for posting. The Toyo 6E5 have a more blue phoshur than the green American tubes.
Interesting ---- was that the eye tube with the almost white luminous target? I have some new old stock RCA 6E5 and 6U5, and even when unused the target is a light gray color (coated with a mineral called willemite).
@@goodun2974 no, I haven't seen 1 of those.
u have a very large collection PLEASE make arrangements for the collection when we pass on so others can continue to see such things , I am going to off load hundreds of tubes from my many decades of collecting here near Lismore nsw for free to collectors in the very near , all the best Ron we have a passion for these things !!
I am the inheritor of this collection, saving it from the 4 winds as the previous owner passes on. I will certainly find someone to take on the collection when I get feeble.
Hi, I'm a collector with a large display at my factory in Melbourne. I'd be very happy to take anything you choose to pass on.
@@DaveDollop I have quite a load of "extras" that are taking up space. Email your shipping address and I'll see what I can do.
So nice to see you again ....Love ya :):)
Thanks Ron for showing us your personal heaven
What an amazing collection, imagine the work to put all of them nicely fit on the shelves 😮
Rom, it's good to see and hear you. I'm glad all is well.
ФЭУ-2 This is an ancient photodiode that read the sound from the film from the sound track. Used in film projectors.
❤😊 Excellent! 👍 I have around 600 vacuum tubes.
What a cool collection! Lots of history there. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Amazing!!!🙌
Long time no hear from gasslinger, we miss you!! 🤟
Wow there are some seriously rare tubes there. What an incredible collection. We missed you Ron! Much love!!
Those photomultipliers are amazing tubes. Electron multiplication of 1 million!
I have one that has an input screen 7 inches diameter!
So pleased to see you back again. I always, always and always learn so much from you. It is every time a delight and sometimes a wonder to see you work. Volkmaar
wouldn't it be nice to have them all glowing at once lit up like a Christmas tree all nice warm and fuzzy
amazing collection, thanks for showing, this channel is a wealth of knowledge and a joy forever!
Thanks for all your sharing ❤
Your videos is always incredible
I worked 47 years at Varian & Eimac. Later changed to CPI. As quality assurance. Some you have seen my QA stamp on the reflex klystrons. Major playing of the voyager 1 & 2 for JPI. Medical too. I retired a few years ago in Palo Alto.
Какая богатая историческая коллекция радиоламп! Есть даже лампы и трубки Гейгера из СССР! Thank you for contemplating such beauty!
Hi That is a Fantastic Collection. I could happily spend a week there with you talking about them. Keep the Videos coming I love them 🇬🇧
Really cool collection!! If you need some EU tube sockets, let me know. I often go from US and EU and back! 😊
I am actually very curious about that loudspeaker collection as well!!
long ago i worked with equipment that had photoelectric tubes about 3 or 4 inches diameter and over a foot long. they were really rare. an audit was once made of all of them in the world because they cost about $14,000 each. the audit turned up one short...it had been sent to the moon. i don't know what it was used for on the moon.
A fascinating collection of valves, thanks for that!
Hi Good to see you back wow what a collection there's enough parts there to build a radio transmitter
Wow you have an amazing collection I'm truly jealous. If you had tags with short descriptions on each one this display would easily be worthy of the museum.
Wow! You have a museum!!!
I immediately started clapping when you hit Dalibor's tube. Cant tell you how much it meant to see him up there on that shelf.
And I thought I have had every tube pass through my hands over the years, Not a Chance. My dad was a TV radio repair guy in the 50-60s, I took up guitar amps in the '60s, and we had thousands of tubes NOS I sold tubes locally and on eBay then down to HiFi Guitar Tubes until 2018. Losing my vision put an end to my hobby. I do have a display of 12 unique tubes still on a shelf. BTW we are a Odd Lot and I am OK with that, Haha
This was absolutely fascinating! I remember some of those tubes from work. I think the photomultiplier tube you said was from a CT was actually used in the Picker 600 CT scanner. It was built in Cleveland Ohio at the Picker Miner Road plant. Although I never worked on one, I did do a little service on the model 1200 that came after it. Each tube had to be individually calibrated, and there were 100's of them! I also remember the large PMT's from the nuclear gamma cameras. Those were also a lot of work to peak each of them. As soon as you adjusted one, all the adjacent tubes would go out of alignment! What a job! I still have some of those tubes in the warehouse someplace. Thanks so much for sharing!!
A hobby is a hobby, no matter how quaint.
I have missed your videos! Glad your back! Those old tubes bring back good memories. Thanx Ken from gpt ms
Well worth the effort and a great work and what memories. I remember using some odd ones at college but poor memory stops me remember well. I remember as a youngster with a friend we went over a dump and found a load of chests filled with tons of valves and some weird stuff probably from the war. It was the 60s in the UK. Thank you for the work.
Ron that's just incredible!
At this point, it's safe to call your fluorescent tube lights "vintage vacuum tubes", too!
03:57 - ФЭУ-2 is simple photomultiplier tube. For example, it was used in soviet cinema projector sound amplifier КУУП-56 to 'read' sound from special track on film.
Thank you for sharing. Tubes keep amazing me, being of the solid state generation.
Fantastic collection Ron!
Got have RESPECT for this guy
Very nice collection, thank you for sharing.
Incredible collection of tubes! .....and that's also alot of wing nuts.
The mounting setup for displaying these tubes did seem like it required a bit more work and a *lot more* hardware (threaded standoffs, wingnuts, and rare/expensive tube sockets) than necessary. Granted, it's not a true museum display; but my OCD and retentive personality would have me orienting all of the tubes in such a way that you could see the labels and as much of the plate structure as possible. But that's just me....
That’s a FANTASTIC vacuum tube collection. Just keep all these away from moisture, condensation, and water 💧, or they’ll go to air. That’s a very INTERESTING 🤨 vacuum tube collection. Your friend, Jeff.
Vacuum tubes don't "go to air"; air goes to (into) the vacuum tube, if the seal fails....
@@goodun2974 That’s what I meant. There’s too many 👨 dual purpose sayings in the world 🌎. The same exact sentence can mean 😪 two completely different things. Your friend, Jeff.
hell of a collection hope all is well with you
Thank you , impressive collection !
You never cease to amaze with your collection. Wow 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Thanks Ron , at least we know that you are healthy. You should add a Crookes tube !
Thanks Ron for showing us your collection. I need to take mine out of the boxes and put them on display.
This is awesome! I hope the collection will some day show up in a public location. It appears some tubes are duds while others look perfectly functional. I think it would be cool to put some of the working units on the bench and warm them up.
Nice job Ron. I never thought I would do what you have done with those old glass vacuum tubes you have. Keep adding them to your collection, they are part of history.
thanks very much for this fantastic video and for passing your knowledge onto he public.
Excellent presentation, Ron! If something is needed or missing We know you could fabricate or build your own. Cheers................
Hey Ron your tech friend Dave here your video was amazing it was nice seeing all those tubes thank you you have a nice collection it was a long cold winter and I missed your videos I have a lot of tubes in radios myself retired hope to see another one of your videos soon may God bless you and keep you safe always your friend day thank you
That's a sweet collection. I have recently seen a much larger collection of tubes. There was one room that had a wall that was just a touch longer the a shelf from floor to about 7-7.5 tall that was full of NIB old stock tubes. They had several rooms with working tube radios and phonographs that were all working plus a few televisions, reel to reels, 8 tracks and cassette recorders. A room of operational ham radios. Another room of military radios and other electronic devices, a room of op amps Ics and early computing, another room full of oscilloscopes tube testers and tubes. Two more rooms dedicated to old DJ, radio and TV broadcast with cameras microphones and the broadcast amplifiers with tubes in them the size of guitar bodies, they had a parts room that was just spare and salvaged parts like potentiometers, oscillators, diodes, capacitors etc. A library room full of electronics manuals, service manuals, text books and old magazines all about related topics. There were old working radio consoles all through the halls and a big auditorium with more radios tables for working and classes and a 20 ft deep section across the back full of consoles waiting to be restored and the side walls had 10ft tall displays down them. Such an amazing place and an amazing collection. If you're ever in West Virginia near Huntington go see the people at the Museum of Radio & Technology. They operate on donations and are nice folks and love to help people in the community testing their tubes, trouble shoot, find parts, repair their devices and educate them. It says they are open Saturdays but they are usually around through the week. I wish I had started going there sooner.