Suck on it.
I can see how you are winning friends and influencing people.
Suck on it.
call mr Miller at speakerworks on monday and see if he has a tester
Thanks for the suggestions guys (especially you noober... that would work great if I had whatever device these work in ).
I never thought to go take them down to a music store. Now that I think about it, I know there are a couple of electronics parts stores in town too, I could just take them down there and maybe they'd buy them too if they work? I'd be happy just to get some lunch money from it rather than throw them out. I just don't want to waste too much time dealing with it, but I have this built-in fear of throwing away potentially good parts.
I have a tube tester in my office at work. If you need to test them, hit me up during the week.
I happen to build amps around those very things(link below)....
Current production 12ax7 style twin triodes are available from many vendors but New Old Stock USA's are still what the gear heads want and pay dearly for. The problem is that unless you have flawless packaging with the original dividers it's hard to sell them as such. Most testers you'll find locally are of the emmission, short, parametrical variety which will tell you that the tube is functional, but a mutual conductance or dynamic conductance tester is the only way to validate true matching in a tube that has two separate three element tubes in it(twin triode) as they do.
If they are the standard green label long plate variety of sylvania that are so plentiful and test good you are looking at at easy $20 - $25 ea on ebay.
6AQ5's are the lower plate voltage/less dissipating predecessor of the more common 6Bq5 / el84 (used in vox ac15, 30's and all or Brad paisly DrZ rigs clones etc.) Not that many people build around them anymmore but very popular with early Gibson collectors. Worth about $30 a pair if authentic NOS.
Hope that helps.
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