New proect! 1953 Hoffman Television Super Receiver Mark V Tv Phono Radio Console

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Originally Posted by vortalexfan

If you need some 6V6s I have about 20 of them all of them test like new yet and are all pulls from radios that I ended up junking out because they had bad power transformers or output transformers or other issues (also some of them came to me from people who just gave me old boxes of tubes that they found at estate sales beause they knew I fixed old tube radios and could use them.
I've actually got a couple of matched sets of Sylvania and RCA and GE badged 6V6 GT tubes and I also have a matched set of Zenith 6V6G tubes that were pulled from my old Zenith 10S690 radio that I gutted, I've also got a matched set of 6V6GTs that are badged Capehart that came out of an old Capehart all-in-one Console from the late 1940s or early 1950s, so lots of possiblities, just let me know and I can send you some for the cost of shipping.

Thanks for the offer,

I wish I had seen it BEFORE i had ordered the set of new jj 6v6GT matched pair Friday, but Oh well.

I did put in the 2 bigger filter caps (39uF 500V) and the Panasonic film caps replacing the cheap generic ones, also put in the 1% grid resistors, BUT, i also found that I missed a bad resistor before, and that was the 47k resistor on the cathode of the phase inverter, (r154) which was up at 168k, all of this has made a noticeable improvement, but I can still push it in to clipping, and I can obviously push the 12 inch speaker too hard, I'm sure i reaching the limit of what this amp was meant to do, and it was not very much, as I noted before, the output transformer seems REALLY small.