Sorry I’ve been swamped. There’s an huge (I’m talking maybe 800+) amount of tubes to go through that it will take months. I’ve been separating audio from TV and then I’ll start from there. Then I’m cleaning the tubes one at a time that I want to test. There’s enough tubes for instance that I can do a few batches at a time. So the last two nights after cleaning some for example I brought in about 50 tubes to start with. Mostly stuff I currently use and some that caught my attention. So I’ve tested about 60 tubes in the last two nights and about 80% tested good enough to keep and out of those about 60% tested new or almost new. I’m talking everything from 2a3’s to 71A’s, 45’s (up to about 12 pairs already) 6l6’s and tons of 6sn7’s and others just got started. I’ve never personally seen GOOD desired audio tubes in this amount in one find. EVER! I found a ton of tubes one other time but they were not even close to the quality and quantities that this is yielding. The pic of the table is what I brought in last night and I did the same Friday night. There’s hundreds to go. I just grabbed a few examples to show what’s coming out of this find. Two of the 4 tube testers I purchased have checked out next to my calibrated ones as being correct also which is really rare (in my case anyway) so that was great also. Purchased some random other stuff also like a signal generator and a really nice variac. I’ve included some shots of tubes I personally would use in my gear. I’ll just give an example. I’ve tested, labeled, and boxed up probably a dozen closely testing 45’s alone along with 4 pairs of new testing 2A3’s, about 10 pairs of 71A’s and the same with 6L6’s and that’s just in two evenings. It will take a long time to go through it all but I had to dig in and seriously see what I was dealing with and it’s been amazing so far. Don’t get me wrong there’s a ton of junk too but it’s the one at a time process that will take time as not to let any good ones get away. I think it’s the least I owe the gentleman who passed.
