Teflon Sockets

I’ve got a set of teflon sockets from Jakeband. These are fantastically made to order. Luciano from Jakeband sent me in addition some samples which I will use in the eTracer which I will bring along to ETF.19.

Jakeband socket examples

Honestly, these are fine pieces of craftwork. For example, you can measure and let Luciano know the diameter of your 845 (or any other transmitting valves) when ordering these valves so they fit perfectly.

I’ve used these sockets on my projects for years and am very pleased have to say. Of course you pay a premium price as these are hand-made with fine materials. In my opinion, these are worth every cent.

Also I had a pair of RCA sockets, look at them:

RCA female connector

They are made on a single piece of tellurium copper. First coating in pure silver 99.99% thickness 18 microns and the second coating Gold 24 K 3 micron thick. Sterling job!

You can contact Jakeband directly to order your sockets. Just use the form I posted years ago here.

UV4 PTFE sockets

Looking to build a new 01a Gen2 preamp shortly. This time will be for the rare UV-201a valves. They need a special socket UV4 rather than the usual UX4. See width difference of both filament pins. In the UV4 all pins have same size as below:

image2 Weather they have brass or bakelite bases, the new UV4 sockets produced by Luciano Bandozzi (Jakeband) are of supreme quality. I highly recommend them:

image1I already reviewed these and you can see more info here. I hope to post some pictures of the new preamp shortly