HUGE VACUUM TUBE COLLECTION
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- This is the big project I have been working on the past month. Finally finished and here is the result! This tube collection is mostly donated by Carlton, who has been collecting tubes for many years, especially the past ten years or so. Several other people have also donated to the collection. I will maintain the collection until I am no longer able to, hopefully for another 20 years or longer.
Good to see you back. We miss you when you're gone
Thanks for the virtual tour. Wonderful collection. I pray your collection is passed on to a museum so future generations can appreciate this technology .
I worked at a Westinghouse vacuum tube facility in the 80’s, where I experienced first hand the assembly of such tubes. People don’t realize what is involved making such tubes, Ron you make it look too easy. Most people have never seen a glass lathe, vac-ion pump, getter flasher, aging rack , etc.
Thank you for preserving this piece of history.f
I love sharing this old and new technology, most of my colleagues have passed and their skill and knowledge has gone with them. I wish you were my neighbor.
There's a TH-cam channel called Signal Ditch where the guy is doing a lot of research into buying parts for making vacuum tubes and building his own vacuum lathe.
When I was a little kid the neighbor threw out an old TV set - I took it home and then took it apart and found all these tubes inside. Along with the TV was an RCA Receiving Tube Manual. The TV itself was a Heathkit. I started building Tube circuits when I was 12. Good times!
What an awesome collection. It looks great.
i am unsure, but within the klystrons, there may have been the type that acted as the high speed switch that sequence the firing of the first atomic bomb.
Simply amazing... well done to all who were involved. In time, I hope a national museum will be interested enough to take over stewardship of this unique collection of historical artefacts.
Ron. Your knowledge is outstanding.
OMG!!! I have now seen heaven. Pull up a chair, pull a vacuum, and prepare to have your mind absolutely blown. Please do not fail to put one interrupted hour aside and watch all of this unique presentation of the world-class collection. All hail the Glasslinger!
Socket to me, and thanks for this outstanding video.
Ron, you are incredibly skilled. I’m sure if you wanted to, you could build a time machine.💡👨🏻🦲💡🙂
Just needs the flux capacitor.
This must be one of the best collections of old tubes in the world. Thank you for sharing it.
Excellent job! I'm glad you're online again!
I love that you got all these weird tubes documenting the full history of tubes, I don't even know what half of your tubes are used for. My collection is mostly various types of audio and radio tubes.
That's a fabulous tube collection. Some of those I've only seen pictures of in old Basic Electronics books from like the 60's. It's fantastic to see them for real.
This is absolutely FASCINATING! What an amazing assortment. I'm elated that you are still making videos, and wish you good health. Keep up the great work!
Amazing collection! Regarding semiconductors and availability, my rule of thumb is that if you can see it without a magnifying glass then it probably isn’t available these days.
I am tube collector from Ukraine. One of the biggest (or biggest?) private tube and ionic devices collection in the country. Collected over 30 years. But it is just in boxes, no time to describe it in database, looking as warehouse, not so nice like yours )
Sorry your country is being trashed! We here in the USA don't agree with what is going on. Not one thing we can do about it. The USA governmnet is a separate evil entity unto itself and does whatever suits it!
It's really interesting to think how these large components have been replaced by microscopic silicon based components. Nice collection!
Mr Carlson would be in heaven, this is a beautiful collection, keep up the good work.
Goodness me Ron, that is the most insane collection of tubes. Good luck with the dusting! Thanks for sharing it with us.
So thrilled to see more from you; you were missed!!!
Thanks for showing us your wonderful tube collection, Ron.
I was fascinated to see the Loewe 3NF Multi-valve
Those things must be incredibly rare.
I love how you were 'surprised' by the other side of the wall.. You can tell when someone loves something :)
My buddy, Geoff, reckons he has 250,000 vacuum tubes for stereo gear. But he's not entirely sure, because he has been collecting them for three decades without documenting his collection properly. I think he also has 70+ cars. Crazy stuff!
Much of those can be appreciated as art pieces, even if they don't work. I work often with guitar amps, so those tubes are more common types. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Ron, for sharing with usyour most valuable treasures: your tubes collection and your huge knowledge. Nice, rare and beautiful. Sadly, it is not open to the public. Maybe one day...
This is one of the BEST tube videos out there. It is a shame we couldn't see the caged tyrathrons?. Excellent video, boss!
That’s an amazing tube collection! Thank you for the walk through and info. This will help me identify some of my odd tubes.
Wow there are some seriously rare tubes there. What an incredible collection. We missed you Ron! Much love!!
Go Ron, what an amazing collection. It’s in the best of hands now. Imagine the story some of those tubes hold.
Very impressive and so well organized.
What an amazing collection Ron.I was just thinking about you the other day, wondering how you were. Good to see another video
Rom, it's good to see and hear you. I'm glad all is well.
This is breath taking. What an amazing collection and more impressive the knowledge of what they are.
That Soviet tube ФЭУ-2 seen at 3:58 is a single cascade photomultiplier with antimony-cesium photocathode. It was widely used in film equipment audio amplifiers as audio track photodetector and in different measuring and control units.
I have one of these in my 1956 Lomo Kinap Cinema amplifier. It sits inside of an opening in the amplifier. The opening can be closed off with a metal shutter. It appears that the projector would have originally been designed to sit on top of the amp and the film reel run past this window. I dont understand what the job of the tube would be in relation to the film reel though. Can you explain? does the film reel contain audio content too? Or does it send a signal to the amp to turn on/off at the correct moments? Would love to understand more!
u have a very large collection PLEASE make arrangements for the collection when we pass on so others can continue to see such things , I am going to off load hundreds of tubes from my many decades of collecting here near Lismore nsw for free to collectors in the very near , all the best Ron we have a passion for these things !!
I am the inheritor of this collection, saving it from the 4 winds as the previous owner passes on. I will certainly find someone to take on the collection when I get feeble.
Hi, I'm a collector with a large display at my factory in Melbourne. I'd be very happy to take anything you choose to pass on.
@@DaveDollop I have quite a load of "extras" that are taking up space. Email your shipping address and I'll see what I can do.
25:04 The EM 87 modulation indicator valves are very popular in UK reel to reel recorders.
That's an impressive collection, Ron. 👍
At 6:24, the transistor at the far right with the red-green-violet dots is a Bell Labs 1752, the first junction transistor from around 1951, and very rare! I've wanted one of those for my collection for a long time!
Is the red-green-violet sequence a backwards resistor color code? Because from right to left that would be 752....
So nice to see you again ....Love ya :):)
Hi That is a Fantastic Collection. I could happily spend a week there with you talking about them. Keep the Videos coming I love them 🇬🇧
Fascinating! That German multi-element tube at 31:00 is the original integrated circuit! With an integrated detector and audio amplifier, It did more than Robert Noyce's solid state IC invention in 1958.
Ruddy hell Ron, so tats what you’ve been up to for the last 5 months😂. And I bet you have a load more in boxes in another room.. new old stock!
But really, that must the most comprehensive tube collection in the world.
Thanks for all your sharing ❤
Your videos is always incredible
A fascinating collection of valves, thanks for that!
This was absolutely fascinating! I remember some of those tubes from work. I think the photomultiplier tube you said was from a CT was actually used in the Picker 600 CT scanner. It was built in Cleveland Ohio at the Picker Miner Road plant. Although I never worked on one, I did do a little service on the model 1200 that came after it. Each tube had to be individually calibrated, and there were 100's of them! I also remember the large PMT's from the nuclear gamma cameras. Those were also a lot of work to peak each of them. As soon as you adjusted one, all the adjacent tubes would go out of alignment! What a job! I still have some of those tubes in the warehouse someplace. Thanks so much for sharing!!
Very nice. A lot of boat anchors were sunk to harvest them tubes huh.
Would love a more detailed description and lesson and history on each of the tube types. Especially the various microwave tube. Traveling wave, klystron, etc. Will you consider making such video series Ron? Please!
You never cease to amaze with your collection. Wow 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
A series of tubes that would make Ted Stevens proud 😅
Ron that's just incredible!
Hi Good to see you back wow what a collection there's enough parts there to build a radio transmitter
amazing, fascinating, brilliant collection!
53 minutes, and it could have been twice as long.
I worked 47 years at Varian & Eimac. Later changed to CPI. As quality assurance. Some you have seen my QA stamp on the reflex klystrons. Major playing of the voyager 1 & 2 for JPI. Medical too. I retired a few years ago in Palo Alto.
Thanks for posting. The Toyo 6E5 have a more blue phoshur than the green American tubes.
Interesting ---- was that the eye tube with the almost white luminous target? I have some new old stock RCA 6E5 and 6U5, and even when unused the target is a light gray color (coated with a mineral called willemite).
@@goodun2974 no, I haven't seen 1 of those.
Thank you , impressive collection !
Amazing!!!🙌
Long time no hear from gasslinger, we miss you!! 🤟
Very very cool!! Thanks Ron. What a treasure this video footage is.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Thanks Ron for showing us your personal heaven
Those photomultipliers are amazing tubes. Electron multiplication of 1 million!
I have one that has an input screen 7 inches diameter!
Very nice collection, thank you for sharing.
Very cool collection - thanks for sharing!
That's a sweet collection. I have recently seen a much larger collection of tubes. There was one room that had a wall that was just a touch longer the a shelf from floor to about 7-7.5 tall that was full of NIB old stock tubes. They had several rooms with working tube radios and phonographs that were all working plus a few televisions, reel to reels, 8 tracks and cassette recorders. A room of operational ham radios. Another room of military radios and other electronic devices, a room of op amps Ics and early computing, another room full of oscilloscopes tube testers and tubes. Two more rooms dedicated to old DJ, radio and TV broadcast with cameras microphones and the broadcast amplifiers with tubes in them the size of guitar bodies, they had a parts room that was just spare and salvaged parts like potentiometers, oscillators, diodes, capacitors etc. A library room full of electronics manuals, service manuals, text books and old magazines all about related topics. There were old working radio consoles all through the halls and a big auditorium with more radios tables for working and classes and a 20 ft deep section across the back full of consoles waiting to be restored and the side walls had 10ft tall displays down them. Such an amazing place and an amazing collection. If you're ever in West Virginia near Huntington go see the people at the Museum of Radio & Technology. They operate on donations and are nice folks and love to help people in the community testing their tubes, trouble shoot, find parts, repair their devices and educate them. It says they are open Saturdays but they are usually around through the week. I wish I had started going there sooner.
wow what an amazing collection thanks for sharing!
thanks very much for this fantastic video and for passing your knowledge onto he public.
When the Sun finally hits us with the big solar storm and annihilates our semiconductor universe, we'll know who to come to save us. The actual instructions for making tubes will probably be lost, but these examples could resurrect an industry. Impressive collection.
OMG, so many types of tube, semiconductor, speaker, etc collection.
You are just amazing Ron. I wish I could visit you and your museum. You are such a genius.
If you are ever in Houston drop by! I show the collection off often! Just had someone today. He was totally amazed!
I am already amazed. Your knowledge is remarkable. I might like a schematic of your tube testing power supply. Followed you for some years now. I am in New Brunswick Canada but still might visit. Nobody here is much interested.@@glasslinger
wow o wow...whattaa collection...wonderful show, so many things that I am only faintly acquainted with and with very informative dialogue. Thank you so much for collecting of the best of our electronics heritage for all to share.
Beautiful collection, loved seeing it.
All those amazing tube's. I was just wondering if you were ok the other day, Ron. I was taking off radio knobs using your little trick and reminded myself that I hadn't seen you for a while.
Good thing they’re not taking up too much space due to the vacuum
I can’t wait to see you use some of these tubes in your projects!
Какая богатая историческая коллекция радиоламп! Есть даже лампы и трубки Гейгера из СССР! Thank you for contemplating such beauty!
Thanks for the tour and explanations of the tubes, glad to see you putting out content again. John
hell of a collection hope all is well with you
And I thought I have had every tube pass through my hands over the years, Not a Chance. My dad was a TV radio repair guy in the 50-60s, I took up guitar amps in the '60s, and we had thousands of tubes NOS I sold tubes locally and on eBay then down to HiFi Guitar Tubes until 2018. Losing my vision put an end to my hobby. I do have a display of 12 unique tubes still on a shelf. BTW we are a Odd Lot and I am OK with that, Haha
Excellent presentation, Ron! If something is needed or missing We know you could fabricate or build your own. Cheers................
You are unique sir . Your knowledge and enthusiasm radiates . Thanks for showing us this amazing collection . I love tubes and was fascinated to see all these . Best wishes to you from the UK .
just amazing, museum quality! i really missed your content, greetings all away from Finland, i am electronic hobbyist among other things, and your channel is just greatest source of information and inspiration...
This is an exceptional run down of an incredible collection. I look forward to seeing you back in the lab showing us the amazing way you can make a bunch of glass, metal and elements “sing” with your incredible radio builds and restorations!
Amazing collection Ron. What is even more amazing is you just about know what each one is and what it does.
I suspect it’s lost it’s vacuum and isn’t robust enough to evacuate.
@@chriswalford4161 You must be talking about Ron himself ???
Awesome tube collection 🙂
A hobby is a hobby, no matter how quaint.
Such an impressive collection. I really enjoyed this video.
Amazing collection!
Thanks Ron , at least we know that you are healthy. You should add a Crookes tube !
1000% More than any Museum, what a collection. thank you for sharing.
Great work. Thank your´very much for showing.
That’s a FANTASTIC vacuum tube collection. Just keep all these away from moisture, condensation, and water 💧, or they’ll go to air. That’s a very INTERESTING 🤨 vacuum tube collection. Your friend, Jeff.
Vacuum tubes don't "go to air"; air goes to (into) the vacuum tube, if the seal fails....
@@goodun2974 That’s what I meant. There’s too many 👨 dual purpose sayings in the world 🌎. The same exact sentence can mean 😪 two completely different things. Your friend, Jeff.
my jealousy went off scale, i'm not jealous anymore LOL
monstrous collection, thanks for sharing!!
Very impressive collection! Somewhere I have a new old stock Klystron with a vernier adjustment and an M505 magnetron which were spares for a Marconi Radiolocator IV. We had a spare magnet for the magnetron but I recall 40+ years ago it “accidentally” become stuck to my father’s earth mover and got broken in attempts to remove it!
Oh!! hello glaslinger,, wow my friend,, wow!!!! what a beautiful collection of tubes = valves,, my God, what a beautiful thing!!!!! i see radio & tv tubes too,, i'm seeing peepholes, used in music radios, and i'm in awe of the richness of your components, from which you make them,, ah you know glaslinger, that beautiful collation of yours,, she's worth millions,, look! congratulations!! ❤ I love it too!, I love your videos, and I love your stereos,, older ones,, because they are all beautiful
Yay 🎉 good to see more content from you! 🩷
This is a fantastic tour!
I very much enjoyed this and all the other informative and educational videos you've made over the years.
Do keep in close touch with others who share your passion in the case your seal breaks and you've lost your vacuum.
A fantastic collection of tubes and some really rare ones, thanks for preserving and sharing these.
What an incredible collection!
It amazes me how you know about every single one of those!
I aspire to be 1/10th of what you are when I grow old!
Huge respect!
Impressive collection, I have aquite big one myself, but none of the tubes are actually on display. I should really give them a dedicated space some day like yours.
03:57 - ФЭУ-2 is simple photomultiplier tube. For example, it was used in soviet cinema projector sound amplifier КУУП-56 to 'read' sound from special track on film.
Absolutely beautifull! Well done. Gives enormous good info for the coming generations. 10 June 2023.
Amazing... wonderful... Great Work
An amazing collection. I was thinking you needed one of those giant liquid mercury-arc rectifiers, then you turned the corner and had a little one right there.