On Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:29:51 AM UTC-4, Dalibor wrote: > > So, what kind of seals was produced this way? Were it seals for vacuum > tubes with electrodes arranged in a circle? This process is completely > different from what I have seen in documetary so far.. look here: > http://youtu.be/GDvF89Bh27Y?t=20m55s > Most products used eiither single green round beads or oval brown 2- or 3-hole beads, and went to make bases for crystals. The company's most popular product was a metal base with 2 leads and green beads, which was sold to Motorola which made the finished crystals. These were apparently used in TV sets. The other top sellers were also crystals. Most were the same metal-base-and-can variety (we didn't make the cans), but there was one which was a transluscent glass base which had a blown glass can, which another division across the production floor from me made. But there were a good number of low-volume esoteric products. We made bases for Western Electric hybrids (round bases, lots of pins). We had one customer we made octal tube bases for, but out of metal, with green and gray beads as seals. There were some aerospace customers we made complex bases for - anywhere from 6 to over 20 pins in a translucent glass base. The "inside" part of these pins usually had a "shepherd's crook" bend, though some were straight. Many of these products had concentric rows of pins.
> In the seal division, did the carbon forms consist of bottom and cover > or did the glass just flow by its own weight into the carbon mould? Was > there any inert atmosphere to prevent the metal oxidizing or the temp was > so low that it was opened to air? > I believe all of the forms were just bottoms. I never saw a multi-piece form. Most of the pieces I had were still bright 20 years after I collected them. I don't know how they would oxidize at higher temperatures. Some of the commodity pieces (mostly the brown-oval ones) had oxidized to a dull dark gray. Some rusted. I don't know if they used any inert gas. If they did, they didn't go through a lot of it (compared to hydrogen). > I would be really interested in photos of your stuff, that would > certainly help! I hope You will find it! > I will try to track them down this weekend. There's two places they could be, but both are many dozens of un-organized "banker's box" storage boxes. -- 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/623cac14-dad5-43e1-a363-65e2f4b0e31b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
