SS power tubes…it was only a matter of time

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I have NEVER been tempted in all of my days on RT to actually refer to someone as 'Tan Pants' but then the responses in this thread had to happen and....well.....here we are.
 
The~Kid said:
I'm not the one being annoying complaining about BS at least so I'll take that any day thank you ^_^
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The~Kid said:
Common sense.....

You know...... it shouldn't be taken for granted but unfortunately is by more than not on average per your example and par for the course in 2025 and the times :dunno:
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The~Kid said:
Tell me about it :LOL:
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So, how about those Raiders? You think they're going to win the Stanley Cup this year?
 
DanTravis62 said:
Yes, I was aware of the Jet City ones - has anyone else made these that you can think of?

I swear there have been a handful of different attempts, and every time, basically nothing comes of it
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Anyone try the Jet city’s ?
 
7704A said:
"Nice cat."
"That's a giraffe."
"It's a cat, stop arguing semantics."
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Unlike the brown pants crowd here...... I'm not the one trying to over complicate basic terminology widely used for non glass vacuum tube alternatives or whatever you want to call them.......


They are SS tubes......and it isn't like it's an uncommon term used vs Metallic Heatsinks or whatever the hell...... whatever one wants to call them they are simply an alternative to glass tubes.
 
Techdeth said:
Anyone try the Jet city’s ?
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There were a few NOS ones left and those were ceramic based as far as I can remember but as said they all pretty much dried up in Covid and the whole tube crisis with the war in Russia/Ukraine and then the fires in the Shuguang factories.......


Many folks bought them I guess because of that and even the older NOS metal ones from the 60s/50s can't find many of them now aside from a few sellers on Ebay/Reverb or Viva Tubes as far as I'm aware but there may be other who have them too.
 
Jeez if everyone is so pissed off about common widely used terminology such as SS Tubes.


Complain about the OP title then and how incorrect it is or something......


And piss off...... pretty ridiculous and annoying BS from the tan pants crowd as usual and par for the course.
 
The~Kid said:
I'm not the one trying to over complicate terminology widely used for non glass vacuum tubes or whatever you want to call them.......
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"Over complicating" is saying one thing to mean another very different thing and making it more of a headache for everyone involved to know what on earth you're talking about. Vacuum tubes are vacuum tubes, solid state is solid state. Common sense. To whatever extent the terminology you're using is widespread, which I doubt, it is very misleading because the tubes are, in fact, not solid state.
 
7704A said:
"Over complicating" is saying one thing to mean another very different thing and making it more of a headache for everyone involved to know what on earth you're talking about. Vacuum tubes are vacuum tubes, solid state is solid state. Common sense. To whatever extent the terminology you're using is widespread, which I doubt, it is very misleading because the tubes are, in fact, not solid state.
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Okay well tell that to OP too then........ ...... let's call these Octals then or whatever instead of SS tubes then...... who gives a fuck.


Complain about the title then too...... since it's so misleading or whatever BS your trying to say here.



Send a letter to folks who sell Metal HeatSinks as substitutes for glass vacuum tubes and go be annoying to them..... send a letter to Jet City and tell them the same thing about their ceramic "SS tubes" they made a while back.......Jeezus.


Otherwise piss off and I don't know what to tell you. What the hell should we call these things other than SS tubes then? What do you and the rest of the tan pants crowd prefer they be called?.




Just tell us what you and the tan pants people want everyone to call these things and stop being lame/annoying and just chill...... because ain't no one got time for that son ^_^
 
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The~Kid said:
Okay well tell that to OP then too........


Complain about the title then too......



Send a letter to folks who sell Metal HeatSinks as substitutes for tubes.
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OP's title is mostly fine, it's announcing solid state devices that behave(?) like tubes and are meant(?) to emulate tubes, hence solid state "tubes", an emulation of tubes with solid state technology.

The~Kid said:
Otherwise piss off and I don't know what to tell you. What the hell should we call these things other than SS tubes then?
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The stuff in the OP? Solid state tubes is close enough, and I'm not arguing that. The metal RCA vacuum tubes? Simple, they're just "vacuum tubes". If it was not clear, I only take issue with calling the RCA and other similar vacuum tubes "solid state", as that is factually incorrect and misleading, and I believe that was everyone else's issue as well. Your posts seem to indicate you've still got the OP's solid state "vacuum tubes" mixed up with the actual vacuum tubes I'm talking about.
 
7704A said:
OP's title is mostly fine, it's announcing solid state devices that behave(?) like tubes and are meant(?) to emulate tubes, hence solid state "tubes", an emulation of tubes with solid state technology.


The stuff in the OP? Solid state tubes is close enough, and I'm not arguing that. The metal RCA vacuum tubes? Simple, they're just "vacuum tubes". If it was not clear, I only take issue with calling the RCA and other similar vacuum tubes "solid state", as that is factually incorrect and misleading, and I believe that was everyone else's issue as well. Your posts seem to indicate you've still got the OP's solid state "vacuum tubes" mixed up with the actual vacuum tubes I'm talking about.
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Okay again to cut to the chase and put it simply...... using common sense here...... you know and I knkw you got some..... and some goes a long way more than not.......


What should we all call these things so you can stop being lame/annoying and make all the Tan Pants/Tan Underwear people like you happy?
 
7704A said:
I already answered that in the post you quoted.
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Okay well doesn't seem like you did.......

So what is it again. What word or terminology is going to make you and the Tan Pants people happy when referring to these instead of "SS Tubes"?



I didn't catch it the 1st time around......


Oh yeah that's right Solid State tubes right...... yeah gotcha : P
 
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