Thanks for all the input folks, I was on the "borrow a bargepole" side of
the fence myself :)
As a newcomer to the world of nixies can you fill me in on some IN-18
history? It sounds like there was a huge price hike in the recent past from
what's being said, and this talk of cartels intrigues me :)
Cheers,
Robin.
On Sunday, May 12, 2013 12:57:04 AM UTC+1, Adam Jacobs wrote:
>
> It does look like mostly a giant pile of junk... and I agree, there is no
> telling how many IN-18's are left in the cartel's secret hoard. One thing
> is for certain: Although every other nixie tube price continues to
> increase, the IN-18 has stayed bizarrely stable.
>
> -Adam
>
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Charles MacDonald
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> On 13-05-11 03:24 PM, Dutchgray wrote:
>>
>>> Then if by some miracle you actually get it set up and working properly
>>> the Russians will undercut you forever with their vast stock of IN-18's
>>> as no one knows how many they have left and I bet its lots. New
>>> manufacture would only work with a tube that people would pay big money
>>> for, so a copy of something big
>>>
>>
>> I share the scepticism. although since there is NOT any tooling for the
>> digits but just "Knowledge" - perhaps one could produce tubes with better
>> digits, or custom digits - Chess Pieces have been mentioned. Also this
>> might be a leg up to starting to make new design Nixie tubes intended to
>> fill niches in the market. if one had the processes down for the IN18,
>> perhaps your engineering staff could scale up to a CD-47 size tube.
>>
>> My sceptical nature will leave me watching far away on the sidelines.
>>
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