Vacuum Tube Accessories

Single row turret strips with a tab for mounting directly to tube socket mounting holes. The screw mount turrets are made of gold plated brass and are pre-mounted to the 2mm thick boards. The mounting hole is 0.15” in diameter. These turret strips are a great option for components connecting to the socket lugs of point to point builds.

Ceramic tube socket commonly used for preamp tubes or EL84 power tubes.

• Chassis hole: 7/8”
• Mounting Centers: 1-1/8”
• Bottom or top mount

High insulated 8-pin tube socket commonly used for octal power tubes. Fits 1 3/16" to 1 1/4" chassis hole diameter. Applicable for use in all types of electric and electronic equipment using vacuum tubes. Features:

• Panel saddle mounting
• Easy mount with the saddle of extruded screw hole
• Phosphorus bronze terminal pin with solder plating
• Glassfiber filled PPS insulating material.

7-pin ceramic tube socket with PC pins commonly used for tubes such as the 6X4 rectifier.

• PC mount
• 11/16” chassis hole required
• 11/16" tail diameter

Protect your preamp tubes and customize them to suit your style with these colorful aluminum tube shields.

For use with guitar amps and applications where tube is suspended upside down in chassis. Use with suspended 5881, 6L6, and EL34 tubes.

9-pin tube socket commonly used for preamp tubes or EL84 power tubes (without shield)

• Top mount
• 1-15/16” shield height
• 3/4” chassis hole required
• 1-1/8” mounting centers
• Includes shield

Belton Micalex tube socket used for 9 pin miniature tubes, bottom mount. Applicable for use with all types of electric and electronic equipment using vacuum tubes.

• Chassis hole: ¾”
• Mounting Centers: 1-1/8”
• Bottom mount

Features:

• Paddle saddle mounting
• Phosphorous bronze pin terminal with tin plating
• Glassfiber fileld PPS Insulating material
• Easy mount with collar attached socket

Belton 8-pin Micalex PC mount tube socket with long leads commonly used for octal based power, preamp, and rectifier tubes. Applicable for use with all types of electronic equipment using vacuum tubes.

• Convenient top or bottom mount capabilities
• 1-1/4” chassis hole required
• 1-1/2” oblong mounting centers

Features:

• Paddle saddle mounting
• Easy mount with the saddle of extruded screw hole
• Phosphorous bronze pin terminal with tin plating
• Glassfiber filled PPS Insulating material
• Long leads

7-pin tube socket with shield base commonly used for preamp tubes

• Top mount
• 5/8” chassis hole required
• 7/8” mounting centers
• Shield Base

2" tall, for use with P-ST9-AWS. Push/twist to chassis, no mounting centers. Belton manufacture. Aluminum sleeve with natural coil spring. Spring length: 26mm

Grips tube base with 'teeth' to securely hold tube in place. For use with octal sockets with 1-1/2" mounting centers. Super high quality. Spring plate with Nickel plating. Please Note: This tube clip will not work with socket P-ST8-500

9-pin phenolic tube socket with attached shield base.

• Top mount
• 3/4” chassis hole required
• 1-1/8” mounting centers

Please Note: Tube retainer S-H144 will not work with this socket

9-pin Micalex tube socket commonly used for preamp tubes or EL84 power tubes. Applicable for use with all types of electronic equipment using vacuum tubes. Features:

• Top mount
• 3/4” tail diameter
• 1-1/8” mounting center

Plastic octal tube socket commonly used for power tubes in many amps.

• Chassis hole: 1 ⅛"
• Mounting Centers: 1 ½"
• Bottom mount

The YJS is a specialized, current-limiting/voltage-conditioning adapter for use in most 20 to 100 watt amps that use 6L6, EL34, 6550 or 6V6 output tubes. The YJS is for amps with fixed bias power tubes. (Fixed bias tubes have their cathode connected directly to ground and a negative DC voltage applied to their control grid).

Bottom mount ceramic socket has bossed mounting holes and recessed rivets to allow sub-panel mounting. Socket fits 300B, 811 size tubes.

Tube retainer for EL84. for use with guitar amps and applications where the tube is suspended upside down in the chassis. Supports a maximum tube height of 2.8 inches

9-pin plastic tube socket commonly used for preamp tubes or EL84 power tubes.

• Standoff, PC mount
• 3/4” tail diameter

Washer fits around the socket in in order to hold it to the chassis. for 8 pin sockets.

Belton micalex tube socket commonly used for preamp tubes or EL84 power tubes

• Fits ¾" chassis hole diameter
• See P-SS9-400 for a compatible tube shield

8-pin phenolic tube socket commonly used for octal based power, preamp, and rectifier tubes.

• Top mount
• 1 3/16" to 1 ¼".chassis hole required
• 1-1/2” mounting centers

*Please Note: The S-H142 tube clip is not compatible with this socket.

The YJUni is a simple pin-converting adapter for use in most amps with 6V6 or similar based tubes like 6F6, 6G6, 6K6, 6Y6, etc. The YJUni is shorter than standard Yellow Jacket® converters. It is designed for use in lower power output amps (20 watts or less) when no power reduction is desired.

4-pin ceramic tube socket.

• Bottom mount
• 1-1/4” chassis hole required
• 1-1/2” mounting centers