On Monday, 19 January 2015 10:12:29 UTC, Norskman wrote: > > I think this is true of any reasonable sized tubes – like the B7971’s – > same thing. > > I would like to build a new clock, but not for silly money…. >
Not quite - The B7971 was specially made in a limited run - just a few 1000s in total - and we know that the last cache known to exist of those was dispersed a few years ago - several members here bought significant caches - I know of at least two in the UK and more elsewhere of 100s of tubes each - as far as we know, that's it for 7971s. Z568xs, OTOH, were a commodity tube and used all over the place, so I suspect that there ar probably 10s of 1000s left, but because they're hidden away and drip-fed onto the market, the price is held high. Part of the reason that I'm now doing neon & scientific glassware (like Alek, Dalibor and probably several others), is because this cosy cartel of suppliers needs to have competition. Nick -- 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/b4b18a8f-a907-4e89-a0cf-f237e33d6c9f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
