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@HamishR Im right there with you man. I’ve never owned NOS power tubes but have owned some used matched Mullard xF2s and RFTs but was...

I love some NOS preamp tubes. But I never got into NOS power tubes because I could never afford them, and the risk involved buying...

@vigilante398 Actually I remember chatting with you over email about EF86s and that you had one or the IEC branded Mullard silver...

@Chuck D. Bones or anyon, Is C2 supposed to be electrolytic or CAN it be electrolytic? I noticed on someone else’s build that they uses...

Beautiful! Looks like you do have several silver plates Mullard and Telefunken! I’d try one of those against the gray plate Telefunken...

@bluedmc777 seems I need to get into some tube rolling then, since you are so into the details and in the know... I didn't know that the...

Lightning just uses 12AX7 in the preamp, but I have a nice British Mullard EF86 in my DC30 that sounds magical. And yup, these are...

I Are you referring to the winged c? I only need 1 and would be down for that. But yea probably wait until this tariff mess is over if...

I have three leftovers of a quad. The fourth one gave up and made a good flash. Willing to trade those for some NOS ecc83 goods. Maybe...

Man that’s so cool! Y’all building all these amps makes me wanna take a stab at it but I’m just not at that level yet. Pretty ironic you...

I used parts from Valvestorm, Mercury Magnetics, Tubesandmore.com, etc, based on freely available schematics and layouts online. The...

I was buying tubes for an amp I was building a few years ago and saw the blurb that JJ KT77s were a suitable replacement for EL34s, so I...

@cooder That is AWESOME!!! Do you build amps on the side??? Very rare gray plate Telefunken you have there as well! I’ve only come...

I haven't done much tube rolling on that, I do have a Telefunken EF86 in my Nighthawk type amp and an ECC81, Russian EL84s and a...

The power of persuasion! 🤣 Clean build as always and you even brought the wire out for the off board parts! I really didn’t care for...