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Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:56 pm
by 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

Re: Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:35 pm
by Jero
I hang on to them. Do that with most music related stuff though. You could give them away on c-list or something.

Re: Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 3:49 pm
by bobloblah
butt plug

Re: Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 3:58 pm
by tuffteef
wack a smiley face on em and give em to the kids

Re: Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 4:00 pm
by sonidero
Hey we got the same numbers in our name... You could "donate" to me :idk:

Re: Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 4:19 pm
by 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.

Re: Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:04 pm
by whiskey_face
use them as a slide so even when you play acoustic you can have tube tone

Re: Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:37 am
by 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 :lol:

Re: Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:47 am
by htsamurai
this thread promoted some of the most amazing responses I've seen on ILF :lol:

Re: Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:30 am
by elbandito
whiskey_face wrote:use them as a slide so even when you play acoustic you can have tube tone

:excellent:

Re: Recycling: What do you do with old tubes?

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:39 am
by Jero
Gut 'em and fill them with resistors, capacitors, and the like, and use them as maracas...cha cha cha