David, They are also the easiest to solder without sockets... so I can see the builders' intent.
Some of the replacement tubes (used tubes) had the plastic spacers, but I couldn't leave them on the tubes, as there are components -- LEDs & resistors -- beneath the tubes. In fact 3 different LEDs below each tube. Quite a color show. The replacement tubes had the wires cut, and of the 4 tubes provided to me, only 2 were usable because of the wire length. One of those had some horrible iron curtain glue all over the wire leads. Almost an hour of work to clean that off. No solvent I had handy would touch it. Terry On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 1:33:22 PM UTC-6, nixiebunny wrote: > > Terry, > > I am surprised that a Nixie tube with wire leads would not be socketed. > That's > the easiest type of tube to put a socket on! > > These tubes often are sold with a plastic alignment wafer that will align > the > wires for you, if you hold the wafer against the PCB while pushing the > wires > down through it. > > On 11/17/2016 12:27 PM, 'Terry S' via neonixie-l wrote: > > Another quick update. > > > > Replacing the 10's hours tube worked fine. So I do indeed have two bad > tubes. > > I've extracted the other bad tube (1's minutes) and will replace it this > evening. > > > > Once I got that going -- after tearing out what is left of my hair > trying to get > > all 13 tube wires into the PCB -- I noticed that the decimal point on > the 10's > > seconds tube was not lighting. Closer inspection revealed that not only > was it > > not only not lighting -- it was missing all together. Looks like the > connecting > > tab is there, but no cathode. No glow. Owner is not concerned. > > > > < > https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-knlOkmTOlNQ/WC4DNOCnFDI/AAAAAAAAAEk/t0Nf0QLDVOAgyyJgft9B8aCPj6WIvE-kgCLcB/s1600/missing%2Bcomma.jpg> > > > > > > > > > > > > Terry > > > -- > David Forbes, Tucson, AZ > -- 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/0772a891-8a1e-41b8-aff3-9d0a969d50f0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
