What does it take to break a tube pin?

[mike_mccue]

I had a nice thing occur that sort of made up for this situation... I just bought and scrapped an old organ with 31 long black plate RCA 12AX7s dated 1957.

:-)

Somehow it sort of evens out.

[J M Fahey]

Well, now you know why it's a:

it was a cheap Chinese tube