10-01-2013, 04:14 PM
Wandered into a antique shop in the East End today as I was in the area...
Amazingly, large boxes of old ASRE (Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment, Portsmouth - ran from 1948-1959) valves... like 100s of them... odd bits of glassware - very obviously lab experimental valves...
He wanted 10 quid/valve, but after some to-and-fro mick-taking with some joshing thrown in, we arrived at 2 quid a tube...
Everything was in mil-spec boxes marked as CVxxxx numbers - internet access via the phone was poor, but I got a bunch of NIB dekatrons and a load of 1940s audio & RF tubes for 2 quid each.... and a very old GPO model F ebonite decade resistance bridge for 5 quid... ran out of time at that point!
"Oi've got boxes of these somewhere", he said (he was VERY "Oirish")... I tried not to sound too eager and I'll believe them when I see them and he did say it'd be probably 2 months before he went back to his lock-up garages... I live in hope...
Also bought some Geiger–Müller tubes - 50p each! Loads of other stuff there - photo multipliers, image videocons, CRTs, hydrogen thyratrons (small ones and HUGE ones)... weird, eclectic, mix of wonders...
Not often these sorts of things turn up any more...
Amazingly, large boxes of old ASRE (Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment, Portsmouth - ran from 1948-1959) valves... like 100s of them... odd bits of glassware - very obviously lab experimental valves...
He wanted 10 quid/valve, but after some to-and-fro mick-taking with some joshing thrown in, we arrived at 2 quid a tube...
Everything was in mil-spec boxes marked as CVxxxx numbers - internet access via the phone was poor, but I got a bunch of NIB dekatrons and a load of 1940s audio & RF tubes for 2 quid each.... and a very old GPO model F ebonite decade resistance bridge for 5 quid... ran out of time at that point!
"Oi've got boxes of these somewhere", he said (he was VERY "Oirish")... I tried not to sound too eager and I'll believe them when I see them and he did say it'd be probably 2 months before he went back to his lock-up garages... I live in hope...
Also bought some Geiger–Müller tubes - 50p each! Loads of other stuff there - photo multipliers, image videocons, CRTs, hydrogen thyratrons (small ones and HUGE ones)... weird, eclectic, mix of wonders...
Not often these sorts of things turn up any more...
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