There’s still a mystique around vacuum tubes long after they were rendered obsolete by solid state devices, and many continue to experiment with them. They can be bought new, but most of us still come ...

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[Mr. Carlson] has an old-style 1940-era radio tube tester, the kind that used to inhabit grocery and drug stores. It is in amazing condition and he was kind enough to tear it down for us. The tester ...

Marked: "Sterling / R-402 / Vacuum Tube Tester / Serial No. 5764 / The Sterling Mfg. Co., Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A." Instruction label pasted beneath unit. In original box with instruction sheet. Same ...

There is nothing simple about a good vacuum tube tester. In fact, most tube testers were very complicated to set up for each different type of tube to be tested. Testing a quantity of different tubes ...