# Your "Cylinder IQ" **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [September 11, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297 "2013-09-11T04:43:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![missileman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/missileman/32/1366_2.png) [@missileman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/missileman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297/41 "2013-09-13T00:58:05Z")
I’m officially bumping my “cylinder IQ” from 17 to 18. I forgot all about my air compressor. ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297/42 "2013-09-13T01:07:18Z")
Oh, I forgot about my small 12 volt compressor too. I’m surprised it counts. ---
**Author:** ![galant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/77aa72/32.png) [@galant](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galant)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297/43 "2013-09-13T01:25:55Z")
Okay, I am getting a cylinder IQ inferiority complex. Gotta show this thread to my wife. ---
**Author:** ![DrRocket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/drrocket/32/2603_2.png) [@DrRocket](https://community.cartalk.com/u/DrRocket)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297/44 "2013-09-13T01:32:58Z")
I’ve got a Wonderbar radio from a '58 Pontiac Star Chief I once owned sitting on a shelf in the garage. I believe it has 4 tubes. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297/45 "2013-09-13T01:34:59Z")
I’ve got two air compressors I forgot about so that makes me 32 and 6 tubes. (I had a wonderbar in my 59 Catalina. Wish I still had it.) ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297/46 "2013-09-13T02:32:53Z")
No doubt about it, @DrRocket, you are totally insane. I knew you had sterling qualities. ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297/47 "2013-09-13T19:12:54Z")
> powered by internal combustion 12 V compressors would be excluded as well as any electric motor driven pumps. ---
**Author:** ![oblivion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@oblivion](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oblivion)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297/48 "2013-09-14T08:36:35Z")
Going by working vacuum tube equipment, my VTIQ would be somewhere in the 60s I think. I have a few old radios including an early 50s Zenith Trans-Oceanic (though it’s getting to the point where it needs “re-capped”), and a “Puritan” art-deco table radio with metal tubes. I also have a 1961 Zenith color TV that still works (or it did when I last plugged it in about 6 years ago), but I should really get rid of it. Being in my mid 40s, vacuum tubes were already obsolete when I was a kid, though there were a lot of vacuum tube devices around back then. I fixed my first tube radio found in the trash when I was about 12. I remember when the local Radio Shack had a tube tester, as well as the local drug store. And I used to bring tubes there to be tested when I was a kid too… ---
**Author:** ![galaxy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@galaxy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/galaxy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297/49 "2013-09-14T17:54:25Z")
For me that’s my Ranger with six, my tractor with two, my weed trimmer with one, two lawn mowers, and a rototiller with one cylinder. That adds up to 12. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/your-cylinder-iq/81297.md?page=2)