Dear Dalibor, Thanks for your insights. I managed to gather ca. 4T of simax glass tubes, some other glass materials, wires, tools etc. This project is not funded from ground zero. I am assuming the project is at 85%. I was hoping to get funds for the remainder.
I will you all the best. Lukas On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Dalibor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lukas, > > In any case, I don't want to discourage you from building a vacuum tube > workshop, I just want to contribute with some insider information. > > I am little bit afraid that you promise to your backers something that is > not possible to fulfil. My first concern is the price of 20 pounds per > 80-100mm tube - this will barely cover costs of the material for such a > tube. And the costs for material are practically negligible compared to > costs of other stuff - tooling, machines, horribly expensive vacuum > equipment (gauges, valves, controllers, pumps..), rent of room etc.. And > even if you have unlimited budget, how are you going to arrange all this to > be able to start shipping in October 2016? > > There are many more risks and challanges that just this, but time is the > most critical matter.. > > Good luck! > > Dalibor Farny > > > > > Dne pátek 8. dubna 2016 19:25:30 UTC+2 Lukas Niebieszczanski napsal(a): >> >> Hello Nick, >> >> Thank you so much for all insights. That's exactly what I need, reviews >> and sharing different POVs. >> This is my first campaign that kinda is moving on. I realise that it >> would not be successful at this time, but I gather necessary experience and >> will try again (I give myself three go's). Ultimately should this fail, I >> will fund all this myself because that is my long term plan. >> I once run a glass workshop, when I was a student and then an employee at >> University of Technology abroad. I was repairing glass and manufacturing >> cathode tubes mainly for the physics demonstrations. >> I know works of Mr Farny, but in my case it is much more advanced as >> nixies and now neon signs are just a bait to attract people. The workshop >> would eventually be capable to produce vacuum tubes from scratch that >> involves many additional processes than just bending filaments and pumping >> Ne to nixies, as you know. I repaired many vacuum tubes with ca. 65% >> success in the process and that was without many strategic tools. >> So I consider myself quite handy with glass and stuff :) >> Please understand that this funding is just to get some push, as things >> started happening quite a time ago and involved much of tedious >> restorations for additional purposes, such as refurbishing planetary ball >> mill for manufacturing emission pastes and luminophores. That took almost a >> year and a shedload of cash. >> Anyway - I will try to put some more pics of the tubes I've done years >> ago once I get them shipped. I moved couple of months ago and still have to >> get the rest of my stuff. If I won't be able to find any old pics then they >> would definitely go on the second campaign. >> >> Again many thanks for your interest and insights. >> Yours, >> Lukas >> >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Lukas, >>> >>> I like the idea, but I've tried hot glass work, and it's really tricky >>> to do well - you don't say on the funding page what your experience or >>> skills are like (other than you work in the NHS) - do you have any examples >>> of your work? >>> >>> As you probably know, at least one other member is doing exactly this >>> type of work, Dalibor Farny - http://www.daliborfarny.com/ - and its >>> taken him years of hard graft to get to the stage he's at. >>> >>> More people doing this is great - just that if we're investing in you, I >>> for one would like to know a bit more :) >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/neonixie-l/zj8MGXRGMMM/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/016ebf8e-2e32-4f83-b5e5-7cc628ba3304%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/016ebf8e-2e32-4f83-b5e5-7cc628ba3304%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/neonixie-l/zj8MGXRGMMM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/281a17c2-2f80-4076-9a87-c7b9ffcb59f8%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/281a17c2-2f80-4076-9a87-c7b9ffcb59f8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. 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