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Post Subject: 6C33C: don't use badly-made sockets.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 3/23/2006
 Genn wrote: |
| Another issue of the 6C33C - short lifetime of the socket. I think, that ventilation will help to extend their lifetime as well. |
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It is not a problem with the 6C33C but with the stupidity of the very specific Russian people who designed the sockets for 6C33C. Do not use the Russian or Chinese made socket and you will not have the “issues”. The Russian and Chinese sockets form a triangle to hold the 6C33C pins. How stupid more it should be if the contact between the socket's pins and the tube's pins is basically a single point, as the socket’s “leaves” that accept the tube pins, open up to become “parallel” to the pin but in the reality it never parallel?
Johnson’s sockets for 6C33C (it was Johnson’s $236 or Johnson’s #237 if I am not mistaken) have no problems to hold the 6C33C and they do not burn itself. They have a contact surface as a short cylinder instead of triangle and when the “leaves” open up the pins are hold not by a single point but by a certain "height of metal".
I have a post last year when I found even some RCA socket for the 6C33C, although I thing it was made by Johnson and then rebranded
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=1093
Rgs,
The caT
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