a few altec photos

**tomt** · April 14th, 2009, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by zelgall

How do they sound?

i have no idea ...

i have none of these.

came across some nice pictures tho ...

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**tomt** · April 14th, 2009, 09:58 PM

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**tomt** · August 6th, 2011, 04:19 PM

**417 - Alnico** · August 17th, 2011, 07:24 AM

All Picts are very nice. I love that Altec Green on the first photo.
I have snabbed quite a few off the web my self over the years.

**tomt** · April 7th, 2012, 01:45 AM

Originally Posted by 417 - Alnico

I have snabbed quite a few off the web my self over the years.

i've decided to add 'internet photographer' to my list of

professions, achievements, things i've imagined i'd done, etc, etc, ...

**tomt** · April 8th, 2012, 12:32 AM

try-ed to post this yesterday still looking for the rest of the pictures ...

1218d1333777587 few altec photos altec 128a g

**tomt** · February 13th, 2014, 01:37 AM

**juniper** · February 13th, 2014, 04:24 PM

Very interesting to see all this Altec gear and the places it is in. I couldnt imagine what one of the very early Altec or "best" Altec systems would sound like in a cinema, I bet it was astounding.... I wish there was more info, or a catalog of the places Altecs have been, or a registry of some sort...

**bowtie427ss** · February 14th, 2014, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by tomt

OK tube gurus, edumacate me.

That nifty cylindrical thing near the bottom of the envelope is the getter?

And, there's no visible "flash" on the glass because it's a thoriated filament type, and the getters aren't flashed with an RF pulse like many of the more common small signal and power tubes are?

**LowOhms** · February 16th, 2014, 01:38 AM

Originally Posted by bowtie427ss

OK tube gurus, edumacate me.

That nifty cylindrical thing near the bottom of the envelope is the getter?

And, there's no visible "flash" on the glass because it's a thoriated filament type, and the getters aren't flashed with an RF pulse like many of the more common small signal and power tubes are?

Hi Bowtie,

The "getter" in this case is none other than tomt !!!

Those two 845s are manufactured by "United Electronics Company" out of my home state, New Jersey, perhaps Newark as I recall. That tube is also called the " United 945".

Notice the UNIQUE inverted glass nipple at the very top of the tube, which serves to hold the top of the plate structure steady.

United Electronics just put ALTEC's logo on their manufactured tubes, very common back then. Cool to see today.

I have a similarly structured United 945 on my desk that was made 43rd week of 1943, and it actually has silver flashing, but no cylindrical pill box. Likely that pill box serves as a getter, I'm also just guessing. Those tubes are most probably 1952 manufacture, maybe 19th week.

Jeff Medwin