[Blackmore]

We drove down to Hamfest at the Kirkwood Community Center to see if they had any NOS tubes for sale.  Pretty much a bust, but Scott did score some tubes for a friend.  I bought these babies as objet d'art. 



The left one is a Western Electric 705A (a half wave rectifier tube)
The cool one on the right is an Eimac 4-125 (a radial power tetrode for transmitting radio signals)

You should have seen Scott's face when the guy selling these talked about a tube he had a home that needed 15A for the filament.  That's definitely a tube you'd want to switch on with a 10 foot wood pole and wear your rubber boots.   

[G]

What!? Scott afeared of a puny 15A? No biggy. You just use bigger wire.

[Scott F.]

Yea, that kinda amperage doesn't worry me a bit. 

While we were there  I picked up a quad of these...

[G]

Those look like the kind of tubes that you use lineman's gloves to turn on if used in a amplifier. You know the kind. The lights dim in the neighborhood. Norad has glitches........

[Bob in St. Louis]

You guys are nutjobs.  My kinda nutjobs, but nutjobs nonetheless. 

[thunderbrick]

Yep!  We're all Bozos on this bus!