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    Old Tubes--Are These Anything Interesting for Amps

    H, William here, no knowledge of electronics.

    A friend sent this pic to me of a find she'd made and bought. She does artsy things and builds machines and things. Imagine Tim Burton with a more free-form vision. So she buys all sorts of things to use in her works.

    Is there anything in here interesting?

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    Re: Old Tubes--Are These Anything Interesting for Amps

    The 6AQ5A would be useable in early Musicmaster bass amps ... if you can find a matching second one. other than that, I don't see much there.
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    Re: Old Tubes--Are These Anything Interesting for Amps

    Ha ha, I have no idea what she's going to do with them. They'll go to some inventive use.
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    Re: Old Tubes--Are These Anything Interesting for Amps

    The 12AU6 might be -
    and depending on those Sylvanias laying down in the yellow box who knows.
    Other than that, I haven;t seen those ones used in amps,
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    Re: Old Tubes--Are These Anything Interesting for Amps

    6aq5, EL34, 12au6...
    What happend?
    Who let the magic smoke out?

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    Re: Old Tubes--Are These Anything Interesting for Amps

    I don't see anything overly interesting here. If you need tubes for old amplifiers, you can search here https://tubeamplifierparts.com/. I've found some interesting options.

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