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What makes this funny is that a major US defense contractor likely committed a number of felonies by smuggling communist Soviet tubes into the US at the height of the Cold War

It is massively reinforced against vibration with three mica spacers as well as top wire snubbers

Tube Two has a narrow crack in its base which

slanted-D getters

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