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Posted on 5/22/20 at 10:43 pm to
Posted by Zappas Stache
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Member since Apr 2009
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Posted on 5/22/20 at 10:43 pm to
Yea, maybe he was testing them. But it wasn't radio shack, it was a little convienience store.
Posted by RedPop4
Santiago de Compostela
Member since Jan 2005
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Posted on 5/22/20 at 10:50 pm to
The local K&B drugstore had the tube tester right near the main entrance by the swinging purple gates.
Posted by Tigerhead
Member since Aug 2004
1176 posts
Posted on 5/22/20 at 11:05 pm to
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Yea, maybe he was testing them. But it wasn't radio shack, it was a little convienience store.


Yep. Whatever your local version of 7-11 or Stop N Shop was at the time was where the tester was located. And once you tested the tubes you opened a cabinet on the bottom of the tester and found the tube you needed. Go home, put the new tube in, and you were in business. Those damn sets put out so much heat you didn't need to turn a heater on in the den.
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