Re: [neonixie-l] Re: 5 x CD27s on eBay...

[Instrument Resources of America]

    A couple of points to be made here. Not that amazing at all, at 
least to me it's not. Back when Nixies were being made and used, the 
paramount use for Nixies was in some sort of instrumentation, frequency 
counters, voltmeters, and other digital readouts. Almost all of these 
used about one inch or smaller tubes, and they were made in the 
millions. The larger tubes were used for large displays, think of the 
display at the stock market, albeit a different type of Nixie, where 
maybe several hundred were used. I seriously doubt that there were more 
than a few thousand or tens of thousands of them made.The cost to make 
the larger ones was not that much more than the smaller ones back then. 
So what makes them worth so much more today. Two things. 1). Supply and 
demand. There are quite scarce. And. 2). What collectors are able and 
willing to pay for them. Myself, I'm not willing to pay that much for 
these, and whoever buys them is going to have to come up with one more 
for a complete six digit clock.  My two cents worth.     Ira.

On 9/29/2014 12:24 PM, gregebert wrote:
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.

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