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DIY vacuum tubes

By Tom | Published: September 5, 2010
This crazy person, French radio enthusiast Claude Paillard, makes his own vacuum tubes. Ooh. This video’s been kicking around the internet for a while, but if you haven’t seen it, it’s worth at least the time it takes to watch it. The process is quite beautiful. So much precision, patience, and attention to detail. Paillard’s [...]
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Cool Books: Radiotron Designer’s Handbook

By Tom | Published: June 19, 2010
Look at this lovely old book that I bought! It’s an old tube radio manual, and it’s full of great stuff. The illustrations are perfectly old-fashioned and painstakingly hand-drawn. I like it. It bears a lot of similarity to the Radio Handbook that I also own. In fact, I bought both of them from Eliot’s [...]
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