Please do! I've always suspected those X, Y, Z tubes were for machining

On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 12:20 PM Bill Notfaded <[email protected]> wrote:

> Welcome Rich... I too collect nixie tube test equipment including
> calculators, frequency counters, scalers with dekatrons, and nixie
> voltmeters.  I even have some X,Y machining displays.  I've been wanting to
> take some time to document some them.  Once I get a piece of classic
> display technology gear then I'm always looking for the original manuals to
> go with them as well!  It's kinda a sickness.
>
> Bill
> On Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 7:15:26 PM UTC-7 Pramanicin wrote:
>
>> Welcome to the madhouse! Only kidding....lots of very knowledgeable and
>> more importantly, friendly and helpful folks on this list. No such thing as
>> a stupid question here (unless you ask the same one twice..... ha ha).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:34 PM gregebert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> "Abandon all hope ye who enter here".......it's too late to turn back;
>>> nixie tubes are not only addictive, but they are known to cause other
>>> addictions.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 6:57:47 AM UTC-7 Keith Moore wrote:
>>>
>>>> Welcome! This place is my fave read of the day each day! :-)
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 5:21:59 PM UTC-4 Terry Bowman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 4, 2021, at 2:39 PM, Richard Nicewonger <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> My particular interest is not necessarily clocks (although I do have a
>>>>> nixie version) but more toward calculators and test equipment using these
>>>>> type of displays. I am always a sucker for more of these that may require
>>>>> some work to be operational. Sometimes I shoot myself in the foot because
>>>>> of the difficulty in finding replacement parts for 50+ year old equipment,
>>>>> especially displays!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You're in good company. The cost of replacement tubes is rising at an
>>>>> increasingly non-linear rate. Service manuals range from free pdfs to
>>>>> over-priced eBay listings to non-existent.
>>>>>
>>>>> As for other parts, there are those lighted push-buttons on my
>>>>> Systron-Donner Time Code Generator/Reader. My apologies for complaining
>>>>> about this at least three times before but the d*mn thing is working
>>>>> perfectly and all it needs is a fix for those broken caps!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope to get some insight from knowledgeable folks here. So, looking
>>>>> forward to having some interesting and useful conversations.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You came to the right place. I shot myself in the foot by not joining
>>>>> up a year earlier.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
>>>>> "The Mac Doctor"
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.astarcloseup.com
>>>>>
>>>>> “...the book said something astonishing, a very big thought. The
>>>>> stars, it said, were suns but very far away. The Sun was a star but close
>>>>> up.”—Carl Sagan, "The Backbone Of Night", *Cosmos*, 1980
>>>>>
>>>>>
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