Is there a way to distinquish differences between radio and television tubes by number? Is there much overlap in the use of same tube numbers in both TVs and Radios?
I was thinking it would be great to be able to separate them out of my growing collection so I did not have to look at the TV tubes when looking for radio tubes as I do not trust myself trying to fix a TV. Bob

Hi Bob

It's not that easy. Some tubes are used in both radio and TV. There are lists of popular tubes used in radios.

Certain tubes with unusual first numbers were used in series wired filament TV's. Few of these are found in radios. Many small tubes starting with 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 are mostly TV. Most compactrons were TV only. Tubes starting with 17, 19, 23 and such were used in TV.

Norm

:Is there a way to distinquish differences between radio and television tubes by number? Is there much overlap in the use of same tube numbers in both TVs and Radios?
:I was thinking it would be great to be able to separate them out of my growing collection so I did not have to look at the TV tubes when looking for radio tubes as I do not trust myself trying to fix a TV. Bob

You may want to sort by tube style i.e. 4,5,6 pin, 4,5,6, pin with grid cap, octals, loctals, 7 pin mini, 9 pin mini, metal tubes, compactrons. If you seperate out the compactrons you will have many of the TV tubes from the 50's - the 70's. Or you may want to sort by number. You could sort by age or type of radio used in i.e. battery TRF, AC TRF, AA5, Early 30's (4,5,6, pin). There are many ways of sorting usually determined by personal preference.

MRO