Cheap amp tube sources

[Huggy Love]

Ran into a dilemma, sold a tube amp head and while removing the tubes to ship it, I broke one of the (matched) power tubes. Now I have to buy both due to the power matching factor, it's gonna take a small chunk out of the profit. (grrr)

Everything I find is around $70 bucks on 6L6r's, any super cheap alternatives? or sources?

 

[matt3310]

Check out tubedepot.

 

[andy474x]

Any reason you can’t just put a pair of 6L6GC’s in? That would be cheaper. Not familiar with the “R” variant.

 

[Huggy Love]

Any reason you can’t just put a pair of 6L6GC’s in? That would be cheaper. Not familiar with the “R” variant.

I ran across other 6L6's with different suffixes like that but I'm not well versed on tubes enough to know the compatibility issues. Maybe one of our geniuses can chime in.

Do you have a good source on the 6L6GC's?

 

[Huggy Love]

It took only 2 reps to this thread to resolve this issue, THANKS Matt & Andy you were dead on.

MODS YOU CAN KILL THIS THREAD.

 

[dmatthews]

No reason to delete a thread that may help others IMHO.

 

[Huggy Love]

No reason to delete a thread that may help others IMHO.

Agreed, I'll fix the title.

 

[bodia]

Not necessarily cheap, nor is the website pretty, but the info contained is mammoth.

http://www.audiotubes.com/