Anyone here have a (working) tube tester?

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I'm thinking of grabbing a lot of Russian "6N1P" tubes- like 50 of them- to keep my Counterpoint amps fed.

I was actually looking for a solid state replacement for the tube, but I'm not finding one for the 6DJ8/E88CC/6922 tube

I have matched (when they were new) Sovtek tubes in there now. I was a dealer, and they were the ones suggested by Mike Elliot anyway...

Since I use five per amp (for for voltage gain and one for signal invert), I thought I'd get ten, or at least eight, that are well matched to one another. But I don't have a tube tester. Figured I'd ask if someone with a good tester and some free time would be interested in testing tubes for beer money...

I may just ditch the whole idea (it ain't broke so don't fix it), but figured it couldn't hurt to ask.
 
On the topic of tubes:

The rectum-frier is also a tube, well, one is, and it is a 6CA4. I'm sure there is a solid state replacement for that rectifier... Question is: would I be providing any benefit by going to a solid state rectifier over the tube?

We used to properly set up the reissue Bassman amps and we would pull the tube rectifier and put a tube rectifier in, but that is a completely different situation- distortions and harmonics are desired in the old (style) Fender tube amps. Of course, they were still super-clean sounding when we finished with them, because the tubes were matched and bias was ideal etc.
 
6n1p is a little different from 6dj8, mostly the amount of current the filament draws. And you outta just be able to poke diodes in where the 6ca4 goes lol
 
Yeah, I was contemplating one of those tube adapters and instead of a tube on top, diodes... Not sure how that would work with the rest of the circuit.
 
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