Dalibors tubes are wonderful and perfect, and the price is very reasonable no boubt about that.
If there were newly made tubes in size of Z566M or ZM1042 this would be perfect, the Dalibor tubes are rather big, and for a clock to place on your desk or so they are maybe to big. Tubes in size of 30mm digits would be very nice and good looking for projects, if they were affordable. If you want to producte nixie tubes on a *brand commercial level* be prepared to pay a lot of money for licences and so. In the end, the question is if the marked of nixie-builders is large enough to be *commerical*. If you sell a tube for 25$ and lets say you sell 1000pcs of it, you only made 25'000$ of sales so you will not be able to live from the nixie production unless you are a one-man-company or not doing it for a living. But if you really would make tubes in size of IN-18 at a good price, i would defenitely buy at leas 12-18 for my projects! P.S. About the russian supplies. You know that they say "every tale has a piece of truth in it". An ebay seller one day told me, he was interested in buying a old factory where they made IN-13 bargraph tubes. He also said parts and machines are still there and look in working condition, but the factory remains closed since 1990. What if iit is true? OR what if when someone actually bought a factory and made tubes - for example IN-12 - there are so many around, i actually bought a "live-long" supply of 40, they have a old date code of 86, but they really look like they came just out of a factory yesterday... -- 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/42602ff7-88a1-40fe-a0b1-30c400fbc35e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
