Funny Picture Thread [14]

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Tube tester from the late 60's/early 70's that was found in just about every drug store.

Borg 386 said:

Tube tester from the late 60's/early 70's that was found in just about every drug store.

Don't think we had anything like that in the UK.

kado897 said:

Don't think we had anything like that in the UK.

They had those at a lot of stores here during that time, along with the tubes stocked in the drawers. When your TV went on the fritz, you opened the back, pulled out a few tubes, took them to the store & if one was bad, you got a new one. That usually fixed the TV, not always, but mostly.

Borg 386 said:

They had those at a lot of stores here during that time, along with the tubes stocked in the drawers. When your TV went on the fritz, you opened the back, pulled out a few tubes, took them to the store & if one was bad, you got a new one. That usually fixed the TV, not always, but mostly.

Sounds a very good idea. Think I've still got an old vacuum tube radio in the attic.

kado897 said:

Sounds a very good idea. Think I've still got an old vacuum tube radio in the attic.

Might want to do some checking, that could be worth a bit of $$$$

Borg 386 said:

Might want to do some checking, that could be worth a bit of $$$$

That's a thought.

Guess who?