That's quite the nest egg you've got there Jeff...;-) Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 11, 2011, at 13:03, Jeff Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
