Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

[CBA]

Bonjour.

I just replaced the tubes in my amp, and I have two power tubes and three preamp tubes that are just sittin' there. Do any off you keep replaced tubes around for spares... or is there a good way to dispose of them? I hate having extra shit around, and I've never had a problem with a tube exploding or whatever, so I'd rather not have them around.

Yer pal,

C

[Jero]

I hang on to them. Do that with most music related stuff though. You could give them away on c-list or something.

[bobloblah]

butt plug

[tuffteef]

wack a smiley face on em and give em to the kids

[sonidero]

Hey we got the same numbers in our name... You could "donate" to me

[Jero]

Yea, you could always try to make something "artsy" with them. I'm in the process of building a guitar stool from an old kay bass body myself.

[whiskey_face]

use them as a slide so even when you play acoustic you can have tube tone

[the Life Aquatic]

gut em and then stick in some amber leds and make some sort of artsy lamp, haha make a sick chandelier outta old tubes

[htsamurai]

this thread promoted some of the most amazing responses I've seen on ILF

[elbandito]

use them as a slide so even when you play acoustic you can have tube tone

[Jero]

Gut 'em and fill them with resistors, capacitors, and the like, and use them as maracas...cha cha cha