Greetings everyone! I am currently offering to help a friend of mine, who is new to nixie tubes.
He is a retired telephone company switching tech, and he has a solid electronics background. He has made a few scratchbuilt clocks, and has them running using 7-segment LED readouts. He also has built an all-relay clock based on the circuit drawing of the Western Electric #5 crossbar telephone exchange's "time of day" clock. That is a sight (and sound) to behold. Its visual output is lamps. He did find and purchased some 7441 driver ics and I gave him a few various nixies to test. I also gave him a copy of the National Readout Tube data brochure. Lately he has been scouring ebay looking at various tubes. There are some NL-5440s up for auction with sockets right now, but with no bids, and we both wondered why. That reminded me of the infamous Richardson bulk buy of 5 or 6 years ago, when those thousands of NL-5440s and NL-840s were purchased. So, I am asking here on this forum, in behalf of my friend, if anyone out there might be willing to wheel and deal on some of those Richardson bulk buy tubes. (Or any other tubes, for that matter...) Such as 8422. Any of those out there for sale? He is only looking for maybe ten or a dozen tubes and with sockets if available. Just thought I'd ask here to see what might be out there. Thank you! Chuck Richards $4.95/mo. National Dialup, Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus, 5mb personal web space. 5x faster dialup for only $9.95/mo. No contracts, No fees, No Kidding! See http://www.All2Easy.net for more details! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/380-2201376617453302%40all2easy.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
