You're absolutely right. This was made well before the internet existed. Whoever engineered the original clock was quite the craftsman and probably and engineer professionally as well.
The plywood did look awful when I first got it, but with some sanding, fresh stain and finishing it looks decent enough. Certainly a departure from the fine mahogany trim in my (imaginary) Rolls Royce but presentable nevertheless. On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 4:21 PM kosbo.com <[email protected]> wrote: > Very interesting clock! Plywood case design is awful, but I like > electronics board, it's useless nowadays, but for that time it was > designed and made very professional and without special access to the > stock, it was difficult to find all these components... > The green transformer is TАН series, which is transformer with anode > and filament voltages. I also like a few onboard orange KT315 > transistors, which looks very unusual too... > > All the best, Konstantin > > > > On Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 10:42:35 PM UTC+3, Kevin A. wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Thought I'd share a little side project I recently fired up and >> completed; a "restomod" of sorts on an old clock likely made in the USSR in >> the 80s. >> >> You can view all the pictures and details here: >> https://neonkev.com/2020/05/31/antique-soviet-nixie-clock-resurrection/ >> >> I'm sure the transistor count increased many orders of magnitude by the >> time I was finished! >> > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/487b8216-a548-45af-80e9-7bd9ff29c8bco%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/487b8216-a548-45af-80e9-7bd9ff29c8bco%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CALcVLKL6Zvk3kU78Pk1dC0zoRG1w6JmpSBnN%3Dhc-e0DHivo%3DcQ%40mail.gmail.com.
