On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 9:00:20 AM UTC-4, Greg P wrote: > > I'd say so, Terry. I know Jeff Thomas (RIP) had purchased upwards of > 8,000 if not more of them when he was selling his IN-18 based NixiChron > back in the 2005 time frame. Subsequently, many more IN-18 based clocks > have been sold since and continue to sell. >
Yup. I remember a picture of him with stacks and stacks of IN-18 cartons. > What puzzles me is; if they're not being manufactured anymore, how many > were truly in surplus? Had to be tens of thousands as the supply never > seems to dry up. > Trying to comprehend how the Soviet production system worked is probably impossible for westerners. I can certainly imagine that it was simply a case of nobody telling the factory to stop producing them, and thousands and thousands piling up and overflowing wherever the factory could find a place to store them. There are some displays that seem to be actually rare - I went looking for IV-26 Type 2 and couldn't find any (other than single-digit quantities) and neither could the sellers I contacted. By comparison, I had quotes for Type 1 from multiple sellers listing quantity prices at the 1,000 and 5,000 levels. And the IV-26 is an odd display - they were made by Orzep for the sole purpose of being put into clocks made by Reflektor, despite the latter being a major producer of display tubes. There are some oddities like the UDT-3. Every one I've seen has been an intentional dud with an internal shorting bar. And then there are the really rare parts, like this: https://www.tmk.com/transient/6F5S8587-s.jpg -- 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/e5154673-4915-4a6c-a40a-7b4ea030db04%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
