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loose tube bases
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I like to use Permatex windshield adhesive and sealer, it works good on grid caps, and to re attach a tube base, as for fixing a loose one I have not tried that yet without removing the base first. I often do this with the tubes with the old style bases since the solder joint on the pins are often bad as well, like on a #24As, #45, #47s, #26s. Without taking the base off I think that I would go the epoxy route.
 I learned about this substance from our own Bob Andersen, but unlike Bob I bought the black rather then the clear kind. By the way, I also used it to glue some new tube sockets in place so they wouldn't spin, they were the molded Bakelite type with a wavy clip ring, and are supposed to go in a keyed hole to stop them from rotating, which this Electrohome chassis did not have, the Permatex did the trick.
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Arran


Messages In This Thread
loose tube bases - by Tubesforme - 03-23-2017, 03:34 PM
RE: loose tube bases - by Mondial - 03-23-2017, 04:35 PM
RE: loose tube bases - by Tubesforme - 03-26-2017, 06:49 PM
RE: loose tube bases - by Steve Davis - 03-23-2017, 06:02 PM
RE: loose tube bases - by Jim Koehler - 03-23-2017, 08:58 PM
RE: loose tube bases - by mark123 - 03-24-2017, 02:08 PM
RE: loose tube bases - by Arran - 03-23-2017, 11:47 PM
RE: loose tube bases - by NostalgiaRadioTime - 03-24-2017, 08:46 PM
RE: loose tube bases - by Arran - 03-25-2017, 12:12 AM
RE: loose tube bases - by codefox1 - 05-13-2017, 05:41 PM
RE: loose tube bases - by Ron Ramirez - 05-13-2017, 09:18 PM
RE: loose tube bases - by Oldresistor47 - 05-30-2017, 08:46 PM



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