It's quite amazing how the large tubes list and often sell for such astronomical prices. Dieter's website has a pricelist from 1963, and the smaller tubes (5092) are *cheaper today* in absolute dollars than they were 50 years ago. That story changes for the big tubes with 2" tall numerals, which originally sold for $45 US, and one recently sold on Ebay for over 10 times that.
If only we could crank these out on a 3D printer....... On a whim, I just bought two 50mm plano-convex lenses to see what a magnified 5092 looks like. I have no idea what kind of results I will get, but if it's even remotely decent I'll post photos in a few weeks. -- 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/f3814d01-9165-41fb-889c-9196e943a48a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
