I have a bit of a sticking point with my project. It's a reasonably(I say reasonably, relays are expensive even those from china) turing complete computer built with relays.
As you may have guessed, the displays and indicators are nixies of some form or another - IN-12B, IN-3 and INS-1s. I'm comfortable in the way I'm going to mount the IN-12Bs on a panel by using sockets however the accompanying decimal points which use IN-3s have long flexible non socket-able leads. I really don't want to solder them onto a board mainly because I can't bear to cut the leads off of the poor things but it's mainly in case they need to be replaced in the future. The binary displays use INS-1s for front facing panel mounting and have the same problem. I've thought about LED panel holders for the INS-1s but I can't find any 7mm holders that would fit them. Plus the IN-3s need to be vertical and stand up from a base. They are used in nixie clocks very frequently so I wonder if any of you have come up with a solution to this problem. It's a darn shame they never made sockets for them in the past. And I haven't got the equipment to make bakelite to make a nice looking socket either. Thanks for any suggestions! -- 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/7cda7be6-e825-4790-90f3-e0df78b3cd0b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
