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Originally Posted by vienna
there's always the fallback of the sharp open hand whack to the side or top of the set case.
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What's hard to believe is that sometimes that actually worked.
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I recall even supermarkets and other such stores had little kiosks where a person could buy replacement vacuum tubes...
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Ours was the local Save-On drug store. On top of the rack was a tube-tester, because you weren't always sure which one it was. Take them all and test them until you found the one that didn't work.
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if you wanted to risk trying to repair a set yourself;
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And everybody did. Build-it-yourself kit radios were the rage for awhile, too.