My piece of advice with all of this sockets made from disassembled connectors or sockets is that they should be used to connect the nixies to cables. As threeneurons says, it is important to let the socket "give" to the pins force and not exert any lateral force to the pins to not stress the kovar-glass junction. There used to be printed circuit specific tube sockets which had a way to compensate for that stress, but they disappeared long ago. The new chinese ceramic sockets do not "give", thus they stress the tubes. I know many people has made sockets out of disassembled connector and didn't have much problem but it is a matter of time, and if we talk of the (for now) cheap IN-12, it might not be a great concern, but if we talk of IN-18 or stranger (as in more expensive) tubes, I'd take that into my consideration.
On Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 4:14:21 PM UTC-3, Jonathan wrote: > > HI All, > > In a couple of weeks, I'm going to be helping my nephew to assemble a 3D > printer. One of the first projects I would like to use it for is to make > some B9012 Pixie tube sockets. > > I've never used a 3D printer, so it is all new to me. The data sheet I > have has a good mechanical drawing for a starting point. Does anyone > know of an off the shelf product I could use for the pin sockets? I am > currently using some pin sockets scrounged from common old sockets, I > think from a 9 pin. > > And any other advice would be much appreciated. If I can make something > that works, I should be able to help out any other list members that > might need some. > > Jonathan > -- 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/7ad78faf-f7e5-483b-b533-5ac4e8a7a0d2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
