If someone has access to an electron microscope, we should go thru our stash of dead nixies to see which ones are candidates for disassembly and inspection. I have one b6091 that got dark and blurry, but still has gas.
On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 6:04:17 AM UTC-7 Dekatron42 wrote: > The Burroughs Brochure 616 mentions this test but does not contain the > description of the cathode disintegration. > > /Martin > > On Friday, 31 July 2020 14:38:01 UTC+2, Paul Andrews wrote: >> >> My source for this was a magazine article that referenced a test made by >> Burroughs that ran over several years. They held a ‘competition’ to see if >> anyone could guess how the tube finally failed. This was how the tube >> failed. >> >> Of course, I can’t find that article now! >> >> -- 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/8e39e58d-3428-4eb3-abb3-ae429ac77154n%40googlegroups.com.
