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Old 02-19-2018, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by init4fun View Post
Just found an old repair bill in one of the tube radios I recently got . In 1957 this person paid for all 4 tubes in the radio with the given reason "1 tube dead , other 3 tubes shorted" , which I gotta say I find highly unlikely that 3 battery type tubes would all turn up shorted all at once since the directly heated filament cathode is far less likely to short (classic heater to cathode short of the indirectly heated types) than the indirectly heated type would . In fact , what exactly COULD a directly heated tube's filament short out to while still being intact enough to function at all ? (and not be considered a "dead" tube rather than a "shorted" one)

$10.20 for parts ; 4 tubes , one .001mfd 600v cap , one two meg two watt resistor , & one dial pointer

$3.75 for labor

$13.95 which was no small chunk of change back in 1957

PS , sorry for the sideways pic , my I phone wasn't playing nice today .....
There's no model number but if it's the 8BX series RCA. the one with the aluminum case and bakelite sides, the radio was about $50.00 new, 10 years prior.
The tube compliment seems from the earliest model. The later ones used a 3V4 and a 1U5 instead of the 3Q4 and 1S5. I have both variations.
Many people would've spent $14.00 on a $50 dollar radio, where not so much on a $20 dollar radio.
I see there was no sales tax on the labor, just on the tubes and parts.
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