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Bottlehead Kits => S.E.X. Kit => Topic started by: sbelyo on January 05, 2015, 08:57:44 AM

Title: How hard is it to find a pair of Tung-Sol 6DN7 tubes
Post by: sbelyo on January 05, 2015, 08:57:44 AM

How hard is it to find a pair of Tung-Sol 6DN7 tubes?  I know they're rare, but does anyone have a line on a pair?

Title: Re: How hard is it to find a pair of Tung-Sol 6DN7 tubes
Post by: JamieMcC on January 05, 2015, 12:18:27 PM

Try looking for some Hens teeth, you might have more luck....

Title: Re: How hard is it to find a pair of Tung-Sol 6DN7 tubes
Post by: Doc B. on January 05, 2015, 12:24:44 PM

I think I started the whole TungSol 6DN7 thing. I used a pair for years in my own S.E.X. amp. They were really only tiny bit different than the other 6DN7s.

Title: Re: How hard is it to find a pair of Tung-Sol 6DN7 tubes
Post by: sbelyo on January 06, 2015, 06:36:22 AM

Not too worry doc....  It's all part of the fun for me.  I've got some NOS blackplate Sylvania's to try out anyway.  maybe by the time I pass the breakin stage I'll find the Tung Sol's

I actually have one but the second section of the tube tests very very low so I'm assuming it's bad

Title: Re: How hard is it to find a pair of Tung-Sol 6DN7 tubes
Post by: mcandmar on January 09, 2015, 04:42:24 AM

Quote from: sbelyo on January 06, 2015, 06:36:22 AM

maybe by the time I pass the breakin stage I'll find the Tung Sol's

Got to love your optimism :)    I searched every tube reseller i could find and trawled through eBay for over a year before i finally found some.  Those black plate Sylvanias are getting hard to find too, it seems to me for every 10 GE's there is 1 Sylvania, and for every 100 there is 1 Tung-Sol.

Title: Re: How hard is it to find a pair of Tung-Sol 6DN7 tubes
Post by: sbelyo on January 12, 2015, 05:53:23 PM

I'll find a pair eventually

Title: Re: How hard is it to find a pair of Tung-Sol 6DN7 tubes
Post by: sbelyo on May 21, 2015, 03:44:52 PM

I'm almost there

Got one, just need another.  Almost had one twice, first time I bought an untested one for $5 and one side was bad.  Second time someone beat me on a tube lot that had one nestled in a carrier in the far corner.

Hopefully I'll fill the empty box

Title: Re: How hard is it to find a pair of Tung-Sol 6DN7 tubes
Post by: sbelyo on October 24, 2015, 03:38:57 PM

I have a pair now.  They sound great.  It was definitely worth the hunt