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How It’s Made: Vacuum Tubes [Video]
Although the era of vacuum tube computers is long over, vacuum tubes live on in high-end audio equipment. Check out this video to see how they’re carefully hand-crafted.
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Awesome video.
Awesome video +1.
Awesome video !!
thanx 4 this video
Does anyone else remember when every grocery store in the US had a vacuum tube checker machine for customers to use? The TV’s getting dark? Better pull some tubes and check them.
Obviously, in those days, those millions and millions of tubes weren’t made quite as painstakingly by hand as this.
watch this video a hour ago and now happen to change channel to how its made and it have this vidio on there