Wow.
Yes, I had always heard the stories of that happening, but never saw
one. Mine is almost hard to see, it didn't cave in the surrounding
glass--just a very slight stress crack and a little inverted pimple
where the hole is. Filaments still good. Sweep tubes....hate em even
tho they have given me excellent service thru the years.
On 12/22/2011 9:19 PM, Jim Shorney wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:54:59 -0500, Curt wrote:
It
got so hot, the glass melted and a hole was sucked thru the side without
breaking the rest of the tube.
I saw something similar years ago in a sweep that was pulled from one of those
horribly designed 11-Meter amps. The glass had been sucked inward and melted
to the outside of the plate structure in one spot. It's been over 35 years ago,
but I think I recall that the vacuum actually held.
73
-Jim
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