Vacuum Tested
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 TWO 12AX7 A WESTINGHOUSE TUBES USED TESTED BOTH 90 03  US $24.47
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 7247 Tube The Fisher Stereo Tube Fisher 7247 US $69.99
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 TWO 12AU7 A ECC82 HAMMOND TUBES USED TESTED US $14.68
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 Mullard Amperex e182cc 7119 pair 12AU7 tubes US $52.01
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 Pair NOS Tung Sol 7355 Vacuum Tubes Boxed Tested Excellent US $29.95
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 Vintage Vacuum Tubes Lot of 100 AUDIO AMPLIFIER RADIO TV HAM US $14.33
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 4 NEW IN BOX GE 6Z10 6J10 COMPACTRON TUBES US $9.95
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 Genalex KT66 smoked glass brown base with orig box tube US $69.86
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 MULLARD 12AX7 ECC83 GRAY PLATES O GETTER I65 ELECTROHOME made in Canada US $13.00
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 4 NEW IN BOX GE 6AY3B 6BS3A DIODE TUBES US $9.95
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 A SET OF THREE 3 VINTAGE 6SN7GT SMOKED GREY VACUUM TUBES TESTED GOOD US $21.50
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 TESTED RCA 845 VT 43 HIGH POWER AUDIO AMPLIFIER TRIODE US $63.60
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 USED TESTED TAYLOR TUBE 805 VT 143 HIGH POWER AUDIO TRIODE US $9.99
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 A VINTAGE RAYTHEON 5U4GB BLACKPLATE NOS NIB VAC TUBE US $19.99
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 A VINTAGE CBS by GE 5U4GB BLACKPLATE NOS NIB VAC TUBE US $19.99
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 A PAIR OF MOTOROLA by GE 12AU7A ECC82 NOS NIB VAC TUBES US $19.99
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 A VINTAGE GE 12BH7A NOS NIB VAC TUBE US $19.99
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 A SINGLE TUNG SOL 12SK7 METAL BASE VACUUM TUBE TESTED GOOD US $.99
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 A LOT OF 5 SYLVANIA 6AL5 NOS NIB VACTUBES US $9.99
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 TAD 6L6 GC amp tubes matching quad set US $50.00
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 VINTAGE RCA 2A3 VACUUM TUBE US $18.50
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 Marshall Electronics 6350 Vacuum Tubes New in Box Set of 4 US $25.00
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 5 NEW IN BOX SYLVANIA 17JQ6 POWER PENTODE TUBES US $12.95
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 A PAIR OF VINTAGE RCA 6V6 VACUUM TUBES US $9.99
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 VINTAGE NOS RCA VT 212 ACORN VACUUM TUBE JRC 958 A US $4.99
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 VINTAGE TUNG SOL 5V4GA VACUUM TUBE US $4.99
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 VINTAGE GE 5U4GB VACUUM TUBE US $4.99
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 VINTAGE PHILCO 80 VACUUM TUBE US $4.99
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 WESTERN ELECTRIC Model 124A Rectifier Vacuum Tube US $9.99 |
 5 Raytheon tubes 6T8 6AF3 6JU8 6GJ7 6LM8 US $5.00
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 VINTAGE RCA 46 VACUUM TUBE US $4.99
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 VINTAGE RCA 5U4G VACUUM TUBE US $4.99
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 5 Raytheon tubes 4EJ7 4DT6 4BQ7 4BZ6 4GK5 US $5.00
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 A VINTAGE GE 6JG6A VACUUM TUBE US $19.99
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 2 NOS General Electric 6JE6C 6LQ6 Vacuum Tubes for Kenwood National Swan Radios US $41.00
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 Rapsco 1G4 GT G Vacuum Tubes New in Box Set of 4 US $14.95
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 2 NOS Delco 6GJ5A Vacuum Tubes for National NCX 3 Amateur Radio Made by RCA US $12.49
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 Harmon Kardon Vacuum Tube Integrated Amplifier Receiver for rebuild or parts US $99.00
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 2 NOS Delco 6JG6A Vacuum Tubes 17 Watts for Audio Transmitters Made by RCA US $10.50
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 2 NOS RCA 12JB6A Vacuum Tubes for Drake TR 3 Radio Transmitter US $19.87
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 Canlan Electric Antique Radio Interstage Audio Transformer plate to grid US $12.00
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 RCA Interstage or Line Output Audio Transformer 20k CT to 600 ohm a pair tubes US $29.00
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 A VINTAGE PAIR 2 OF 6463 GE VACUUM TUBES TESTED GOOD US $12.99
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 Phillips Miniwatt SQ 7308 E188CC electron tubes Made in Holland US $50.00
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 Bogen M330A Vacuum Tube Public Address PA amplifier excellent guitar amp US $99.00
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 2 5881 TUNG SOL Brown Base Matched pair Power Audio Tube FREE SHIP US 48 US $39.00
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 Telefunken ECC82 12AU7 tubes Made in Germany US $50.00
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 4 GE 5751 12AX7 ECC83 Black Plate 3 Mica D Getter Amplifier Vacuum Tubes Tested US $72.00
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 4 Tung Sol JAN 12AU7 ECC82 Black Glass D Getter Amplifier Vacuum Tubes Tested US $99.99
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 1 Pair Tung Sol 2C51 396A Black Plate D Getter Amplifier Vacuum Tubes Tested NOS US $19.99
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 1 Pair Tung Sol JTL 5687 Black Plate Horseshoe Amplifier Vacuum Tubes Tested US $24.99
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 Rheem ECC83 12AX7 Vacuum Tube Used Tested Made In UK Guitar Mic Vocal Pre Amp US $15.00
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 Magnavox 12AX7 Vacuum Tube Used Tested Made In USA Guitar Mic Vocal Pre Amp US $20.00
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 Lot of 4 Vacuum tube Ediswan PL500 PCH200 EF183 PCF808 US $.99
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 Two Electro Harmonix 12AT7 EH Vacuum Tubes NEW US $12.50
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 Lindal Short Gray Plate O Getter 12AX7A ECC83 Tube US $19.99
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 Strong DAYSTROM by MULLARD Short Gray Plate O Getter 12AX7 ECC83 Tube US $44.99
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 2 Strong Matched Holland made Short Gray Plate O Getter 12AU7 Tubes US $24.99
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 2 Strong Matched RCA Long Gray Plate Angled D Getter 12AX7 ECC83 Tubes US $89.99
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 12CA5 tube used tested good US $1.00
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 12BY7A tubes used two tubes included Tested good US $2.00
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 WE 407A tube used tested good US $1.00
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 5763 tubes used lot of 6 tested good US $2.00
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 6197 tubes used lot of 3 tested good US $1.00
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 12BL6 tubes used matched pair Tested good US $1.00
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 4 close matching 12ax7 vacuum tubes china made US $15.00
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 2 vintage RCA beam power vacuum tube type 807 with brown base used tested US $2.25
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 vintage beam power vacuum tube type 6L6GB used tested US $2.99
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 A VINTAGE SYLVANIA 6FG6 EM84 NOS NIB VAC TUBE US $19.99
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 vintage full wave rectifier vacuum tube type 5Y3 used tested US $1.25
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survival of test cricket?
The last two Tests of the most recent Ashes series showed why the one-day game can never be Test cricket. In Melbourne, the action rose and fell dramatically over five days. The English team were noble triers, undermanned and undermined by their country’s own stultifying system, led by an immigrant’s son who had fallen quickly and hard from his exalted position. The story was powerfully subtended by the question of Waugh’s survival. The forces were ranged against our hero. He scored a flashing 77 to put his selection, seemingly, beyond doubt. But then, on the final day, he was forced to bat again to avert catastrophe for himself and his team. He failed, in a short and controversial innings. This dramatic last moment of suspense raised more questions. The English bowlers looked to have their tails up, as though they’d had a moment of revelation. But after the pure theatre of that near-catastrophe, Waugh’s team won the match. Ultimately, it set the scene for the bitter-sweet Sydney game.
At the end of each day, the developments of a day’s Test cricket are the topic of conversation in lounge rooms and pubs around the country. These twists and turns in the plot just don’t happen in one-day cricket, or any other sport, for that matter. It’s like comparing a rollicking novel with a clever slogan. Yes, it’s unique to former colonies, and an object of ridicule to Americans who know of it, but let America have instant gratification in all things. To seek their approval is another way of cringing.
Test cricket has something limited-overs cricket needs: a variety of finishing scenarios. Crowds don’t necessarily go to limited-overs games to see batsmen who might otherwise fail at Test level slap bowlers all over the ground. They go to see exciting contests and speculate about the way they might end.
Perhaps the best way to ensure the one-day game reflects Test cricket, and vice versa, is for the ICC to experiment with a two-innings-a-side format. Martin Crowe had the right idea with Cricket Max, invented back in the late ‘90s. It introduced the spectator to the principles of Test cricket by mimicking the two-innings-a-team format (ten 8-ball overs), but retained the compressed form of one-day cricket. It’s easy to elaborate the two-innings concept for international consumption. The one-day game’s current predictability can be rectified.
But innovations can only be judged by their intent, and the ICC and home boards should take heed. Commercially motivated interests who see youth as little more than a hormone-driven, thrill-seeking market won’t introduce anything for the betterment of the game. Their intention will be, simply, to “capture the youth market.” The equation of youth with low standards and short attention spans is an introduction of the law of diminishing fleas. If the logic is followed to its furthest degree, one day no-one will have the aptitude or the attitude to play Test cricket. What youth actually need –and what cricket needs to give them - are heroes who achieve spectacularly at both forms of the game.
Realistically, it’s only in the last ten years that the World Cup has become cricket’s greatest prize – here, in fact, in 1992, when the organisers, in a pentecostal flash, realised its potential as a cash bonanza. The two main reasons for the success of international limited-overs cricket – nationalism and slick marketing – have little to do with its intrinsic charm. The longer version, meanwhile, continues to try to resurrect its image around the world. It hasn’t been marketed all that well since the days of World Series Cricket. Test cricket needs to become a game for the masses, and quality doesn’t just announce itself to them. Only marketing and education achieve that. And, in 2003, being tradition-bound just for the sake of it won’t wash with anyone.
When the first limited-overs match was played under a roof (Australia vs South Africa) in 2000, the move was hailed "the way forward" by Steve Waugh. But traditionalists argued that the vagaries of the weather and pitch conditions make cricket the great game it is. Both parties were right. Although Test matches should be played in bright sunshine, a roof and lights do nothing except add another of those variables, without the dreary thought of no play, due to rain. This development is some way off, due to the lack of stadiums with roofs, especially roofs that open and close at short notice. But if the ICC and home boards have the interests of the game and cricket-watching public in mind, they’ll consider any valid innovation.
In 1998, the then President of the ICC, Jagmoham Dalmiya, noticing that interest in Test matches was taking a fade, devised a format for a World Championship of Test Cricket, with a scale of points for outright wins, first-innings wins and draws, and bonus points for scoring rates. No matter what else we thought of him, at least Dalmiya pretended for a moment that the dead hand of politics, the complexities of international scheduling, and delicate diplomatic issues were no barrier to innovation.
But the “championship” has become a chimera. At the conclusion of a tedious, inexcusably-long five-year cycle, the average fan gets to look at a table, its outcomes determined by dodgy mathematics, hearing nothing meanwhile until a sudden, illogical announcement that, say, South Africa is the new number one. And who’s second - Malawi? Who cares? What the public obviously want is a competition – one with real significance, like the one-day World Cup. Or a series of them, the scheduling of which is determined by Test match performance, so the significance of a Test transcends its present series, and everyone who goes along to a Test is aware of it.
If the ICC is serious about moving into the twenty-first century, it will eventually live up to its promise to grant Test status to new countries and give them international experience. However, space cannot be created for them unless established teams, especially Australia, England and the West Indies, concede that three-Test series’ are the way of the future, and the international schedule is culled of redundant one-dayers.
At the moment, the “championship” focuses on series, rather than individual Tests. A 1-0 result is no different to a 3-2 result. Furthermore, a South African victory over Bangladesh is worth the same as an Ashes win. Although we’d certainly want this to be the case in future, it’s a travesty now. The Proteas are patently paperweights compared to the Australians, and Michael Vaughan will be wizened and bald by the time Bangladesh is ready to topple England.
One way to eliminate such absurdities is to have a World Championship structured in two tiers so that developing nations get to play each other, with the odd match outside of their group to give them experience against high-quality teams. The inclusion of nations like Holland, Canada and Kenya will demand such a graduated approach. The third match of every series should be enlivened by being worth bonus championship points, ensuring there are no “dead” rubbers. No Test should ever again occur in a vacuum.
Test cricket’s recent resurgence, due mainly to the sparkling efforts of Aussie teams under Taylor, Waugh and now Ponting, is heartening, but not sustainable. TV ratings are up in Australia. Crowds are up in Australia. But what happens when the current crop retire? Gilchrist, McGrath, Ponting, Hayden, Gillespie, Warne – they all have charisma. But aggressive cricket is only an attitude, and attitude is a changeable thing. Only when it’s built into the game; encouraged and systematised with penalties, rewards and structures, will it continue beyond the present era.
Another ingredient in the resuscitation of Test cricket has been the reconstruction of spin bowling by two of its greatest-ever practitioners, Warne and Muralitharan. No longer is it considered an ancient, moribund art. Even the most rabid adrenaline junkie would feel robbed if their only opportunity to see these guys at work was within the strictures of a limited over match. But they, too, will soon retire. What then? The quality of any game is as good as the quality of the deeds of those who play it. Test cricket must embrace quality, not retreat from it, because only Test matches can fully display the virtues that define cricket.
If the survival of cricket is now highly dependent on revenue raised from the World Cup, cricket is at the brink. The Test match must be instated as the meat of the game, or at least enjoy an equal share of power with international limited-overs cricket. But it requires imagination, diplomacy and commitment from the ICC and home boards around the world; new ways of thinking, and the right reasons.
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