I saw a few tidbits online from a google search, but no service manual. Might be very hard to get spare parts, etc.
I was planning to experiment with a vacuum pump from Harbor Freight Tools later this year; people have claimed it can pull down to 25 microns (yeah, right.....) but it's definitely good enough to get a glow discharge. I plan to see if I can get anything interesting with helium and/or argon inside a glass beer-bottle. Sounds a bit silly, but it shouldn't be too difficult to get a decent seal on it, then bake-out the impurities in a modified toaster-oven. No need for dangerous bombarding. Helium is very easy to get, and seems to have enough spectral emission in the visible region. Where am I going with this ? Just suppose it's possible to make a large nixie-like tube the size of a beer-bottle. Think CD47 (saw *one* on Ebay yesterday for $1300; apparently the seller gave up trying to find enough of these to build a clock. Gone now.). -- 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/1c6a95d0-41af-4759-9d2c-fd0b03feb5ea%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
