I scrounged up a B&K "Dyna-Quik Mod. 500 tube tester today. Has the
510 daughter board inside the lid. Case is not bad, inside looks
pretty good. sockets look excellent, and none are broken. Ball chain
that holds the lid upright is broken. There is one tube base adapter

Best offer plus fair shipping from 91763

I can shoot a pic if anyone wants. No documentation, but there is a
clear and clean chart inside the lid.
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

See it your buyer wants to buy my copy machine. I still have a box of
negative paper for it and 2 quarts of developing fluid...I forget what they
call the process but it 'kinda worked. I also have a CP/M computer with
SSSD 8" floppy drives and a 9" mono composite monitor, hand built-worth
more! I also have a TUBE TESTER!

Gunner, here's the phone number for BFI in your area:XXX-XXX-XXXX If you
call them, I will too.


"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
...
I scrounged up a B&K "Dyna-Quik Mod. 500 tube tester today. Has the
510 daughter board inside the lid. Case is not bad, inside looks
pretty good. sockets look excellent, and none are broken. Ball chain
that holds the lid upright is broken. There is one tube base adapter

Best offer plus fair shipping from 91763

I can shoot a pic if anyone wants. No documentation, but there is a
clear and clean chart inside the lid.
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:47:18 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:

See it your buyer wants to buy my copy machine. I still have a box of
negative paper for it and 2 quarts of developing fluid...I forget what they
call the process but it 'kinda worked. I also have a CP/M computer with
SSSD 8" floppy drives and a 9" mono composite monitor, hand built-worth
more! I also have a TUBE TESTER!

Gunner, here's the phone number for BFI in your area:XXX-XXX-XXXX If you
call them, I will too.


Check the prices on Ebay before laughing too loudly....lol
Even for your computer. Kaypro? Heathkit?



Gunner


"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
.. .
I scrounged up a B&K "Dyna-Quik Mod. 500 tube tester today. Has the
510 daughter board inside the lid. Case is not bad, inside looks
pretty good. sockets look excellent, and none are broken. Ball chain
that holds the lid upright is broken. There is one tube base adapter

Best offer plus fair shipping from 91763

I can shoot a pic if anyone wants. No documentation, but there is a
clear and clean chart inside the lid.
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner


"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

Gunner Asch wrote:

I scrounged up a B&K "Dyna-Quik Mod. 500 tube tester today. Has the
510 daughter board inside the lid. Case is not bad, inside looks
pretty good. sockets look excellent, and none are broken. Ball chain
that holds the lid upright is broken. There is one tube base adapter

Best offer plus fair shipping from 91763

I can shoot a pic if anyone wants. No documentation, but there is a
clear and clean chart inside the lid.

The folks on rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors would be interested. A
picture would help give people an idea of the era of tubes that it would
test -- I have a nice little tube tester already, but it doesn't test
anything older than about 1938 (it has miniature, octal and loctal
sockets, but no 4- 5- 6- or 7-pin big sockets).

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:47:18 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:

See it your buyer wants to buy my copy machine. I still have a box of
negative paper for it and 2 quarts of developing fluid...I forget what they
call the process but it 'kinda worked. I also have a CP/M computer with
SSSD 8" floppy drives and a 9" mono composite monitor, hand built-worth
more! I also have a TUBE TESTER!

Gunner, here's the phone number for BFI in your area:XXX-XXX-XXXX If you
call them, I will too.

There are some audio guys and musicians (guitar amps) that *WANT* that
"tube sound" and pay large to get it.

I thought that was fetish bull**** for quite a while. After finally
studying the matter rather than smugly hooting, I now see why "tube
sound" really might be more pleasing to some or most. It's not the
same as the gold plated power plug stuff which is utter bull****.
Tube amps don't intrinsically distort any less than silicon amps,
but they do distort differently -- and the difference in relative
strengths of various harmonics (distortion) is more "musical" to
some ears. One key to this is "balancing" some of the tubes,
particularly the output tubes which often run in matched pairs. A
good transconductance tube tester would be very useful for selecting a
best-matched pair out of a bunch of found tubes. The cheaper
emission testers were really only good for weeding out dead or
near-dead tubes at the drug store. I don't know which flavor Gunner's
is, but being B&K I'd suspect that it's a good one. If there's
something on the meter that says gm, bingo. Gm is
transconductance.

Don Foreman -- who is struggling mightly (while whining miserably and
bleating pitifully) to learn to use microcontrollers and program in
C, but designed tube circuits many moons ago and still has the RCA
tube manuals.

Check the prices on Ebay before laughing too loudly....lol
Even for your computer. Kaypro? Heathkit?

Gunner

A Xerox 820 also called a "Big Board", bought the bare board surplus and
soldered all the itty-bitties. I was hooked on text adventures like "Zork"
....(XYZZY-the secret password) I used the tube tester in college to repair
TVs cheap for students and make beer and film money.

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:26:01 GMT, Gunner Asch
wrote:

I scrounged up a B&K "Dyna-Quik Mod. 500 tube tester today.

And while you're out testing your tube, someone is waiting for you:
http://www.indiespinzone.com/other/retro.jpg

Don Foreman wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:47:18 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:


See it your buyer wants to buy my copy machine. I still have a box of
negative paper for it and 2 quarts of developing fluid...I forget what they
call the process but it 'kinda worked. I also have a CP/M computer with
SSSD 8" floppy drives and a 9" mono composite monitor, hand built-worth
more! I also have a TUBE TESTER!

Gunner, here's the phone number for BFI in your area:XXX-XXX-XXXX If you
call them, I will too.


There are some audio guys and musicians (guitar amps) that *WANT* that
"tube sound" and pay large to get it.

I thought that was fetish bull**** for quite a while. After finally
studying the matter rather than smugly hooting, I now see why "tube
sound" really might be more pleasing to some or most. It's not the
same as the gold plated power plug stuff which is utter bull****.
Tube amps don't intrinsically distort any less than silicon amps,
but they do distort differently -- and the difference in relative
strengths of various harmonics (distortion) is more "musical" to
some ears. One key to this is "balancing" some of the tubes,
particularly the output tubes which often run in matched pairs. A
good transconductance tube tester would be very useful for selecting a
best-matched pair out of a bunch of found tubes. The cheaper
emission testers were really only good for weeding out dead or
near-dead tubes at the drug store. I don't know which flavor Gunner's
is, but being B&K I'd suspect that it's a good one. If there's
something on the meter that says gm, bingo. Gm is
transconductance.

Don Foreman -- who is struggling mightly (while whining miserably and
bleating pitifully) to learn to use microcontrollers and program in
C, but designed tube circuits many moons ago and still has the RCA
tube manuals.

Repairman at a sound company and i do live sound.
Still ahve that bench set up amongst my others and i am setup to do
almost everything but PCB's (tubes through test circuits when needed).

Don you are dead right the "Guitar" sound has nothing at all to do with
fidelity of reproduction of the original sound. Guitars and guitar amps
(Even "Clean" ones) are more about getting a distorted instrument sound
thats pleasing to the ear (Even harmonics instead of the odd harmonics
produced through switching)

Fidelity only kicks in at the microphone facing the amp and at that
point its treated as a separate signal source and whatever distortions
the guitarist wants are now treated by the sound guy as the "signal"

As a result those distorting footwarmers of tube amps do that job
perfectly where integrated circuits are much better suited for
reproducing sounds with fidelity to the signal rather than adding their
own "Warmth"

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:14:11 GMT, (Speechless)
wrote:

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:26:01 GMT, Gunner Asch
wrote:

I scrounged up a B&K "Dyna-Quik Mod. 500 tube tester today.

And while you're out testing your tube, someone is waiting for you:
http://www.indiespinzone.com/other/retro.jpg

Oooooh!! Great shades of Vargas!

Yummm!

Which brings to mind several things that occurred when I was
installing alarm systems..which I will NOT repeat here.
G


Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:49:02 GMT, Ignoramus32654
wrote:

Anyone who still believes in the bull**** about Iraq's chemical
weapons may want to buy a chemical weapons alarm from me. $15 plus
shipping. It needs an extra sensor plate though, sold on the internet.
I have 3 remaining, sold about 18.

I already have several, including the detection kits. Not all of us
plan on going to Iraq..but a number of folks live in areas that may
have industrial accidents indistinguishable from gas attacks.

Gunner


On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:47:18 GMT, Tom Gardner wrote:
See it your buyer wants to buy my copy machine. I still have a box of
negative paper for it and 2 quarts of developing fluid...I forget what they
call the process but it 'kinda worked. I also have a CP/M computer with
SSSD 8" floppy drives and a 9" mono composite monitor, hand built-worth
more! I also have a TUBE TESTER!

Gunner, here's the phone number for BFI in your area:XXX-XXX-XXXX If you
call them, I will too.


"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
...
I scrounged up a B&K "Dyna-Quik Mod. 500 tube tester today. Has the
510 daughter board inside the lid. Case is not bad, inside looks
pretty good. sockets look excellent, and none are broken. Ball chain
that holds the lid upright is broken. There is one tube base adapter

Best offer plus fair shipping from 91763

I can shoot a pic if anyone wants. No documentation, but there is a
clear and clean chart inside the lid.
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner



"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:03:00 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner
Asch quickly quoth:

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:14:11 GMT, (Speechless)
wrote:

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:26:01 GMT, Gunner Asch
wrote:

I scrounged up a B&K "Dyna-Quik Mod. 500 tube tester today.

And while you're out testing your tube, someone is waiting for you:
http://www.indiespinzone.com/other/retro.jpg

Oooooh!! Great shades of Vargas!

Yummm!

Indeed.


Which brings to mind several things that occurred when I was
installing alarm systems..which I will NOT repeat here.
G

Hidden mini-cams in "smoke alarm" boxes come to mind. That must have
been a tough one to avoid installing in some of the sweeties'
bedrooms, huh? It's good that you have the character to ignore it.


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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:57:05 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:03:00 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner
Asch quickly quoth:

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 17:14:11 GMT, (Speechless)
wrote:

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 03:26:01 GMT, Gunner Asch
wrote:

I scrounged up a B&K "Dyna-Quik Mod. 500 tube tester today.

And while you're out testing your tube, someone is waiting for you:
http://www.indiespinzone.com/other/retro.jpg

Oooooh!! Great shades of Vargas!

Yummm!

Indeed.


Which brings to mind several things that occurred when I was
installing alarm systems..which I will NOT repeat here.
G

Hidden mini-cams in "smoke alarm" boxes come to mind. That must have
been a tough one to avoid installing in some of the sweeties'
bedrooms, huh? It's good that you have the character to ignore it.

Its hard to maintain good charector when the house frau comes over to
where you are industriously installing something over head while
standing on a ladder. clad in something sheer, black and little of
it..unzips your fly and looks up at you and sweetly asks..may I? as
she digs ol charlie the one eyed trouser mouse out........you being
at the pefect elevation and such...

Aint going any further with this..nope..

Gunner



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"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner

Adventure - the first real good one for pc's - Plugh !
Yep - still use those for keywords to remember - like my book program - sort by a simple code.

I had Adventure - on Hard Sector 8" floppy on my 8080 Altair 8800 B - had the first 8800 in January
but upgraded to a B for more power.

Martin
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Tom Gardner wrote:
Check the prices on Ebay before laughing too loudly....lol
Even for your computer. Kaypro? Heathkit?

Gunner


A Xerox 820 also called a "Big Board", bought the bare board surplus and
soldered all the itty-bitties. I was hooked on text adventures like "Zork"
...(XYZZY-the secret password) I used the tube tester in college to repair
TVs cheap for students and make beer and film money.



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On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 23:56:52 -0600, Don Foreman
wrote:


There are some audio guys and musicians (guitar amps) that *WANT* that
"tube sound" and pay large to get it.

I thought that was fetish bull**** for quite a while. After finally
studying the matter rather than smugly hooting, I now see why "tube
sound" really might be more pleasing to some or most. It's not the
same as the gold plated power plug stuff which is utter bull****.
Tube amps don't intrinsically distort any less than silicon amps,
but they do distort differently -- and the difference in relative
strengths of various harmonics (distortion) is more "musical" to
some ears. One key to this is "balancing" some of the tubes,
particularly the output tubes which often run in matched pairs. A
good transconductance tube tester would be very useful for selecting a
best-matched pair out of a bunch of found tubes. The cheaper
emission testers were really only good for weeding out dead or
near-dead tubes at the drug store. I don't know which flavor Gunner's
is, but being B&K I'd suspect that it's a good one. If there's
something on the meter that says gm, bingo. Gm is
transconductance.

Don Foreman -- who is struggling mightly (while whining miserably and
bleating pitifully) to learn to use microcontrollers and program in
C, but designed tube circuits many moons ago and still has the RCA
tube manuals.

Is there much market for tubes? I'll got about a hundred.

How about speaker shims?

I use to help a guy balance engines. He had an old Stewart Warner balancing
machine that had tubes in it. One day while shutting down I noticed the
machine was on so I shut it off. Next day we came in an he noticed it was
off, and I told him I shut it off. Boy, he said , you just killed it. Sure
enough, thing wouldn't work. As long as the machine stayed on everything
worked, shut it off and the tubes would go bye-bye. Sent it back to Stewart
Warner and they dusted off an old retire E and we'd get it back in two or
three weeks. Thing would crap out in power failures to, sometimes.
Dam good machine. Pick up the slightest imbalance.

If you like the tubeamp "luster" then nobody does it better than Mesa
Boogie,
Drop in on Santana sometime and you will see (hear)?

Can you email specs and pics? I'm looking for a couple of gas sensors.

Mike

"Ignoramus32654" wrote in message
...
Anyone who still believes in the bull**** about Iraq's chemical
weapons may want to buy a chemical weapons alarm from me. $15 plus
shipping. It needs an extra sensor plate though, sold on the internet.
I have 3 remaining, sold about 18.

snip