Blow your own
thermionic tubes.
#LP
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P-MONKE We're all fucked, Wed 26 Oct 2022, 20:48,
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God I've tried
With tubes and lubes.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Wed 26 Oct 2022, 21:49,
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This just Primitive Technology builds a radio
All very admirable as an exercise, but not sure why.
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Varmint, Thu 27 Oct 2022, 15:20,
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There's a fairly good market out there for vintage and antique radios.
I buy them for a few quid at boot sales, dust them down and sell them on (for ££s or £££s) to collectors and restorers who then use some of the skills in this 'ere video to get them working and triple/quadruple the value again.
I wouldn't bother making my own vacuum tubes though, but then I do own an unusually large number of valves.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Thu 27 Oct 2022, 15:37,
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I bought a old radio from a junk store once
I guess it was 1940's, all valves of course. It did work (best on Radio Moscow), took a while to warm up, then got hot, and it stank of hot tortoiseshell Bakelite. From what you say it would be worth a few quid now.
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Varmint, Thu 27 Oct 2022, 16:39,
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Definitely worth checking the price on ebay!
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Thu 27 Oct 2022, 17:12,
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^This
That was my thought but could not articulate it being a complete moron
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Thu 27 Oct 2022, 23:20,
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