Interesting find: Hickok tube tester and Eico CRT tester/rejuvenator

[petek]

Now if only I knew anything about them LOL. I saw these two beasties at a local sale and thought to myself, myself those are probably worth something. I'm ascared to plug em in though they both appear to be in beautiful condition and all the paperwork is there including handwritten instructions I guess to someone telling them how to work it.
The first pic is a Hickok 6000A tube tester. Anyone know how old this thing would be, I'm guessing early 60's ?

 

[petek]

This appears to be slightly newer but not much.. and Eico 632 CRT tube tester and rejuvenator?
Anyone care to guess?

 

[veg-o-matic]

Ooh, you got a couple of nice pieces there, Petey.

Now you're going to have to start collecting and restoring old TVs!
veg

 

[gansky1]

Old TV's

You could start with one of these... Something to keep an eye out for, that's for sure!

Pardon Our Interruption...

 

[63getelevision]

Wow! I got Color TV! RCA Victor Color TV!

Those models are rare, but even if I had money to burn, I'd wait for a better deal than almost ten grand. 30 bids???

 

[Unimatic1140]

Gosh I've always wanted a CT100, they were expensive five years ago, but this is really too much. I guess I'll have to be happy with my CTC7 and CTC9 color sets.

 

[blackstone]

I recently saw one of those Hickok tube testers go on eBay for about $500, which is one reason that I am keeping the one I have. I sold other test equipment, meters, etc., from our store, but I am saving the tube tester for actually testing tubes. Mine has a metal case, and was in use in the 1960s, if not earlier. Nice piece of equipment to have.
Fred

 

[goprog]

Beautiful equipment

 

[petek]

9 grand.. whew.
I remember that old tv commercial mentioned above.
Wow I got a color TV,
An RCA Victor Color tv
In our home there's color now
WOW, I got a color tv..

a little cartoon guy singing it.

Of course we begged and pleaded the folks but it didn't work for quite a few years later, like 10 or 15.

 

[tolivac]

Hickok tube testers were considered the TOL of tube checkers-At most of the radio stations I have been to or worked at-they had one of those in their shop.At work out here at this transmitter site-we have two of them and a B&K"Precision" 747 tube checker.the Hickoks in thir tough wooden cases have withstood the test of time-the B&K plastic case is falling apart and held together with duct tape.also in the Wash DC facility I worked at-part of the same agency-they also had Hickok tube testers.Truely nice tough and ACCURATE machines.they are helpful if you have to matcch tubes in pairs or "quads" for push pull amps or balanced amp stages in transmitter modulator stages.We still use alot of small tubes here-the very low-level stages in our 250Kw transmitters use small tubes.Just with the Hickok could test the big tubes-we have to use the transmitter for that-for testing their filaments we use a special ohmeter called a Mil-Ohmeter-it can read in fractions of an ohm.That could tell you if you have an open filament strand in a large tube-large tube filaments are made up of many tungsten wire "Strands" connected in parallel.A regular ohmmeter cannot tell you if fil strands are out-also they can get broken from shipment-we Milohm test all new power tubes that arrive.

 

[Unimatic1140]

I have a good tube tester, although I rarely use it. In the past when I have restored a vintage TV, I order all brand new tubes for it from Antique Electronic Supply. That way after I begin the recap process and start troubleshooting and I can generally rule out that the tubes are causing any problems.

 

[sudsmaster]

I picked up a nice wooden case tube tester for $50 when I was shopping for old tube radio/phono sets last winter. It's a Precision 920. The case is very nice - fingered corners. The set works too, we plugged it in and saw that it tested a tube ok.

When I get around to rebuilding tube based radios again it will come in handy.

 

[sudsmaster]

Here's a shot of the Precision tube tester...

 

[sudsmaster]

Front shot

 

[petek]

Nice wooden case on that one...I've been watching a few go on Ebay and they seem to be pulling in some sheckels. Now I have to decide, keep it or sell it... hmmmmm

 

[drmitch]

Nice equipment Pete. I have one of the Eico testers too and also have a Hickok signal generator. The tester works and is fairly easy to use.

 

[bpetersxx]

Yeah I would say early 60`s

Dad had a bunch of them in the shed out back with the console radio we had

this was at the little house in `63