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conundrum
08-17-2008, 06:24 PM
What new production 6L6GC or 5881 has the largest pins. I'm working on an old Silvertone with some very low pin tension, and it's not really cost effective to replace all the sockets.
So what factory produces the tubes that you break sockets trying to force them in? Thats what I need.:stir
RussB
08-17-2008, 06:34 PM
You need to clean and re-tension the octal sockets
Blue Strat
08-17-2008, 06:44 PM
Unusual request. I can't say I've ever taken a micrometer to tube pins.
conundrum
08-17-2008, 06:49 PM
You need to clean and re-tension the octal sockets

I've done that.
Still loose enough so that bass notes cause arcing.
slider313
08-17-2008, 06:56 PM
What tubes have you tried?
conundrum
08-17-2008, 06:58 PM
2 GE short bottles and 2 National labled "6L6gc" from the USSR, which are who knows what in reality.

Edit
I read that as "What are in there now?"
In addition to those tubes, I've popped some Chinese KT66's in there and they seem to do the trick. They are too tall for use in the combo though.
brad347
08-17-2008, 06:59 PM
I don't have first-hand experience, but I've heard that JJ tubes have large pins.
slider313
08-17-2008, 07:01 PM
I don't have first-hand experience, but I've heard that JJ tubes have large pins.

Actually the JJ's have a thinner pin. The new Tung Sol's have a slightly thicker pin, both the 5881 and 6L6GC.
brad347
08-17-2008, 07:45 PM
I must've remembered backwards. :D
slider313
08-17-2008, 07:49 PM
Yes......backwards remembered must've I. :)
JohnLochner
08-17-2008, 09:36 PM
What new production 6L6GC or 5881 has the largest pins. I'm working on an old Silvertone with some very low pin tension, and it's not really cost effective to replace all the sockets.
So what factory produces the tubes that you break sockets trying to force them in? Thats what I need.:stir

If you're doing the work, wouldn't it be more cost effective to replace the sockets than all of the tubes in them?
Blue Strat
08-17-2008, 09:44 PM
If you're doing the work, wouldn't it be more cost effective to replace the sockets than all of the tubes in them?

Maybe not if time matters;)
conundrum
08-17-2008, 09:55 PM
If you're doing the work, wouldn't it be more cost effective to replace the sockets than all of the tubes in them?

Well the current tubes are almost spent anyway.
And if you've ever seen the inside of a silvertone, you know why I don't wanna replace those sockets.:worried
It's not my amp and I have no interest in doing an amount of work that exceeds it's intrinsic value.