On Monday, April 15, 2019 at 3:28:03 PM UTC-4, SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F. wrote: > > This seller is known for nixie tubes, and even special ones. I wonder > where you get them.Mostly because of the packing, since B7971 usually were > plugged from equipment, it looks like this seller had acces to ex-stock of > spare parts. >
There's a picture floating around of a pile of these foam cartons (with tubes) in Jeff Thomas's garage. The foam carton seems to have been a method for Ultronic techs to carry spare tubes around, as a number of cartons show a fair amount of wear and tear. It may be that there was preventative maintenance which involved swapping out all of the tubes at intervals, since all of the tubes I've seen show varying amounts of wear and cathode erosion - I've never seen a true NOS one. Given the confusion a bad tube might cause (remember, this was not a scrolling display so the error might go undetected) and the amount of money these systems leased for, that's certainly possible. -- 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/f929f0ff-2e54-4042-9407-e990be6821ba%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
