It makes sense, they never were a manufacturer, just a re-brander. And they had to guarantee their tubes, at least as supplied to the military, So they needed a date code as a reference. The printing on the tubes looks way better than most that I've seen.
I believe Radio Shaft did the same thing on some tubes late in their game. They may have been buying from Richardson. Terry On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 10:42:05 AM UTC-5, gregebert wrote: > > Terry- I wouldn't be surprised if they were re-dated. 1985 seemed too > recent, as LEDs & VFDs were churned-out like jelly beans at that time. Tons > of nixies from 1960's, some from 1970's. Mine tested-out fine, no signs of > darkening, no blue dots, etc. Definitely new-in-box, but questionable if > they were actually manufactured in 1985. > > Chuck - The lot of 6 was 100 USD thru buy-it-now. I saw some on auction; I > dont see these very often so I got greedy and snagged them for spares. My > big clock uses 15 of them, and after almost 4 years I've had 1 failure plus > 2 that are showing some signs of wear (1 is darkening, 1 is getting dimmer). > -- 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/ce14b9de-da30-4773-8488-d289962911fa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
