For those vacuum tube aficionados among you, if you can't quite find the right triode for your application, why not make your own? Here's a video (17 min) by Claude Paillard, a French amateur radio ...

It all began with a cheap Chinese rotary vane vacuum pump and a desire to learn the witchcraft of DIY vacuum tubes. It ended with a string of successes – a working vacuum chamber, light bulbs, glow ...