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Old 03-17-2014, 09:49 PM
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Watch out for that 6X5. I remember reading somewhere that when these tubes short, they can and all too often do take the power transformer with them. This was a common occurrence in very old radios using this tube as a low-voltage rectifier, since the power supplies in these radios often (more often than not) were not fused.
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