On Jun 8, 11:35 pm, Gene Segal <[email protected]> wrote: > Am I to assume that nobody on the list has IN-18s with broken nipples > (judging by the response)? Should we give it a few more days for folks to > chime in?
I have at least a dozen non-working IN-18 tubes, though none (that I recall) have broken nipples. Some have had seal failures around the pins, while I don't know what is wrong with others. Since the hardest part of making Nixie tubes seems to be creating the digit elements, I was fascinated by the "Audio Tubes" episode of the Discovery Channel (at least in the US) show "How It's Made" (season 9, episode 7). While they gloss over a number of the details, the equipment they're using is manual and rather low-tech. It would seem to be possible to re-use the digit elements in a whole new tube envelope. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
