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Vacuum Tubes for Amps
Breathe on tubes
From perkin--(at)--ex.com Thu Aug 24 15:02:18 CDT 1995
Article: 3097 of alt.guitar.amps
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.amps
From: perkin--(at)--ex.com (Robert Perkins)
Subject: Re: Gibson Les Paul
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bbbea--(at)--ris.com wrote:
>I need a spare set uf tubes for My Gibson Les Paul amp. I've tenatively dated it to 1954, but thats a best guess based on the Jenson speaker (looks original) in the thing. At any rate, if I could just locast a list of teh tubes, that would help. Most of teh tubes are so old and black, no markings are visible.
When I was young and so was Elvis, I was taught to breathe on
illegible tubes until they fogged, so that they could be read. You
won't believe how well this works until you try it. I have even used
this trick on metal envelope tubes.