Tubes: 5687 / 7119 / E182CC How to Test Them?

@dekay 

My friend has custom made amps, monoblocks, 8 or 12 wpc. Big Power Tubes, we cannot test them either, no proper socket, he has several pairs of matched quads.

OK good - glad you got the info.

I have a shoe box size drawer full of new testing 5687's, but lack the energy to list them.

Years/decades ago (when communication was more open) I gave @ least a hundred of them away to people building a popular 5687 based preamp and to AN owners.

I received most of them gratis from a tube dealer who was checking out with terminal cancer (he included them with my order for some other tubes and said the @ $3-$5 a pop they were not worth selling - they are yours now).

I sold my 2 good testers years ago TV-7/DU & 539C and kept a TV7 that only "properly" tests  DHT tubes like 300B and 2A3 (not accurate with small triodes and EL34, EL84 et cetera).

The local guy who refurbished TV7's retired before I was able to send it (the last TV7) to him.

Pity as he was s 20 minute drive (in LA traffic) from me.

DeKay

@dekay 

you probably could have walked there is 7 minutes.

We had an old-timer who worked on Reel to Reel players, he retired a few years ago, what a loss.