Hi all!
I bought an EICO 610A add-on for my EICO 666 tube tester so that I could test a bunch of the "newer" types of tubes (compactrons, magnovals, novars, etc.). When I went to test my first novar-type tube, I discovered that the 610A uses the exact same socket for both magnoval and compactron tubes. Unfortunately, a previous owner had shoved a magnoval tube into the novar socket, which sadly, as many of you already know, makes the socket unfit for ever testing a novar-type tube again.
It appears that I have a couple of options:
1) Replace the socket. This wouldn't be the easiest thing to do because all of the sockets are riveted to the faceplace on the 610A. I'd have to carefully drill out the rivets before installing a new novar socket.
2) Create a novar-to-magnoval adapter. I'd rather do this if possible, but therein is the rub: this just may not be possible. Do any of you know if I could even find a novar socket and a magnoval base? I'd wire the socket straight through to the base. It wouldn't look the greatest, but it would be a lot easier than drilling out rivets and hoping that a replacement socket would even fit right.
Any ideas here? Any favorite sources of such part as I might need for the homebrew adapter? Or does such an adapter already exist?
Thanks!
DeShawn