Justinginn
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So I was wandering around our glorified flea market here in Budapest, looking for an old radio/record player to turn into an amp a la CB when I found this yellow shoebox filled with a bunch of ancient looking tungscram tubes. I found a bunch of old resistors still in their cardboard packaging dated "June 1 1963" and got excited. So I asked the guy how much he wanted for his box of "useless junk" and he says he wants 2000 forint for it (little over $11). I talked him down to 1500 (about $8) and he looked at me like I was crazy for buying tubes. So I get home and find a description sheet, written in Hungarian, with the date 1972 printed on it and a reciept stamp from 1978 on it, dating the tubes to 1972. I've got some 20 ECC82's, 4 EL84's, some other tubes that I've never seen used in guitar amps (EZ80's, PL81's, couple others) and did some digging to find that thetubestore's selling the ECC82's for 37.95 each and the EL84's for 44.95 each. I guess I'm not sure that any of them necessarily work but if any of them do, score. Yall need to come to Hungary. We're loaded with old tube-driven stuff over here. So now I need to test them. Being a child of the 90's and never having heard of a tube until I started playing guitar, I don't really know how to go about this. Any instruction? I'm pretty excited so don't say anything to rain on my parade or you'll crush me forever. :laughing7:
Thanks for any help.
Thanks for any help.