peter wieck who has a serious mental disability wrote:

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RANT WARNING!


** Nice warning - plus thoroughly needed.


( snip the whole stupid lot )



Some other points:

a) An individual primarily working with instrument amplifiers as an example, will have a very limited universe of tubes to test. For that individual, a full-range tester will be heavily compromised due to its all-things-to-all-people requirement. That person needs a specialty tester.

** That person needs to BUILD their own as none exist already.

Or, do as has been done by technicians ever since the invention of radios and TV sets - use the item under repair as the tube tester.

Conditions met in commercial equipment regularly exceed the ones built into so called tube testers - most of which are useless when it comes to revealing common faults and shortcomings in particular tubes that show up readily when placed into actual service.

** Makers of various tube testing devices DO NOT claim the miraculous abilities that so many ****wit owners of them try to claim. **



b) There are those here that are genuinely dangerous, and should be
strung up by their thumbs from the nearest lamppost for the advice they give.

** Boy oh boy - is Mr Weaky ever one of them.

Dangerous, mostly because the geriatric fool has NO ****ing idea how mindlessly arrogant and stupid he is.



..... Phil