Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Dekatron DoHickie #1 glow gets "stuck"

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 14:47:09 -0700

Steel wool is absolutely forbidden around any and all electronics labs, production lines, facilities, companies, etc. that I've ever been in, around, or worked for, including my own lab for the last 50 years of my life. Not only because of the what should be the obvious issues around electronic items, but anything which is magnetic, think speakers, microphones, meter movements, motors, solenoids, etc.  If you absolutely have to use that stuff, try to do it outside, and then use compressed air to get rid of any bits and pieces.     Ira. 

On 8/20/2018 12:51 PM, 'orange_glow_fan' via neonixie-l wrote:

Please be careful using steel wool. Little strands of the wire can get 
into places that could be fatal to unit itself. I would use some fine 
emery type paper on the pins. I would first try a contact cleaner such 
as Deoxit on both the pins and the socket.


Just trying to help...

On Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 12:46:21 AM UTC-4, threeneurons wrote:

    On Friday, August 17, 2018 at 12:37:16 AM UTC-7, Terry Kennedy wrote:

        I have Dekatron DoHickie #1 (January 2007) from Michael
        Moorrees (Tortugascuba on eBay, I believe) which uses a Rodan
        DK23 tube....


    1st on my list of possibilities, is  a bad connection. That old of
    a dekatron dohickie, is not the kit (currently being sold), but
    original version, sold as a complete unit:

    DK23_DH05.jpg

    Try cleaning the tubes pins with some steel wool, and take a small
    round file to the socket holes. Try that first, and see what happens.


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