Dave, I make my own. Depending on the tube size and which compartment in your caddy will be utilized, find or buy an appropriate card stock / hard cardboard or whatever you choose to use for dividers. Since the compartments are typically longer than most chunks of heavy cardboard, I usually will "sub-divide". Once you've settled on the material, the next step is to either use an existing divider as a "model" or just take measurements so you have the correct height, length, and width...plus the distance between the slots you will be cutting for the "egg crate". For most of the divider materials I use, I simply make a slew of the "short" lengths and 'long' lengths. To cut the slots I clamp a bunch together, use my "model" to mark the slots to get the correct spacing and depth, firmly clamp the bunch to a worktable, workbench, and then cut the slots with a saw or weapon of your choice. After many tools, knives, etc, I finally settled on using a saw, in my case it happens to be band saw...could have used a jig saw...or hack saw. A saw with fine teeth cuts a better slot and if your dividers are clamped properly, isn't "racking" your material when you cut.
YMMV...hard to screw this job up. :-) 73, Chris W7JPG -----Original Message----- From: Boatanchors [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Rossetti Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 6:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Boatanchors] Tube Caddy Dividers Like many of you, I have my share of old vacuum tubes. I have most of them in old tube caddies, and keep them separated by type (large pin, locktals, newer tubes [10 pin, novar, and compactrons], miniatures [7 and 9 pin], and other [acorns, subminiatures, and nuvistors] and sorted in alpha numeric order so I can actually find the tubes I have. Some of the old caddies had dividers made of heavy card stock which makes it much easier to keep all the tubes in order. Does anyone know of a source for these dividers? Dave Rossetti [email protected] 410-279-0226 (mobile) _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
