On Dec 11, 12:43 pm, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW. They are truly astonishing in the flesh. Quite unlike any other > tube... kind of odd, as they have a standard socket, but a huge > base... > > Nick
Nick, being one of the members here who acquired a herd of these long ago, IMHO the cathode digit shape is 'butt-ugly". Their appearance reminds me more of a neon sign than of a nixie. Putting six of these Mason jars together in a row did not help. I'd fiddled with both spacing and colon lighting in an attempt to make them more appealing. The finished clock(s) also failed the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) miserably. For the newer members; the GR-414's that began surfacing back in '02 had all come from the same source. A fellow in Germany had a number of the scale displays with some nearly complete, along with a couple cases of NOS tubes in their original boxes. I opted for fifty new and used pieces. In email conversations with Dieter; he'd discovered the source a little later, and acquired the remaining inventory for his GR-414 project. It's odd that these tubes were not used in a greater number of large display applications. I figured they were just too expensive in comparison to seven segment lighted displays. I have a few vintage radios in my collection that are equally valuable. They failed miserably in the market, and many were destroyed or disposed of. So now they're rare... Regards, jeff -- 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.
