Hi Bill,
Thanks for the welcome! Yes, I agree with you about the “sickness” and
I’m probably not getting any better!
It’s bad enough trying to find parts that are generally considered unobtainium,
but you bring up another point
when trying to find a manual (either owner or service) that may be harder to
locate than the parts themselves.
One example of that is my search for Sperry Panaplex display SP-737. This
3-digit bugger has one anode for
the left digit and another common to the other two digits. This is used in a
Marlin calculator for the two least-significant
digits as well as polarity and error indicator. Sooner or later it will
probably appear for sale at a price equal to an
ounce of gold! Such a deal! All the best.
Rich N.
> On Aug 20, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Bill Notfaded <notfad...@gmail.com> 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 <greg...@hotmail.com
> <applewebdata://5F071AA1-70E3-4605-9178-2CBEDD026258>> 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 <nice...@optonline.net <>>
>> 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"
>
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