Re: [neonixie-l] Craigslist, gotta love it! 8 B7971s

2016-03-02 Thread robin bussell 

On 02/03/2016 08:31, Tim Laing wrote:

I had a pure luck moment on Craigslist,
Great story! My best buy for B7971 was finding two of them on ebay as 
"british union flag pattern nixies", I ended up winning for £80 which is 
about $50 each I suppose.


Cheers,
Robin.


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Re: [neonixie-l] Craigslist, gotta love it! 8 B7971s

2016-03-02 Thread Gene Segal 
What a great story, thank you for sharing!
 

In a message dated 3/2/2016 12:31:53 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
lai...@wcoil.com writes:
I had a 
  pure luck moment on Craigslist, was looking for French doors, nothing of 
  interest. Then while I was at it, I looked for Tektronix, nothing interesting. 
  Then electronic test equipment Down the listings, and posted about  
  four weeks ago were Burroughs B7971s. Selling as untested but working about 20 
  years ago when removed from working industrial screw counting machine that was 
  scrapped. There were up to 8 tubes available.  $100 for 2, $350 for all 
  8. I contacted the seller who was in Columbus OH about 85 miles from me.  
  He was real nice. If he didn't have to ship them I could have them for $300. 
  We also agreed I could test them before purchase. So I got off work at 6 AM go 
  home get some sleep and the wife and road trip!  I went to his place of 
  work where I was amazed to find they custom manufacture flow meters in house. 
  The flow meters are completely designed and assembled including the circuit 
  boards right in their moderate sized building. Some even go to NASA for use 
  with their launch systems. He is the circuit and circuit board designer. 
  Neat!!  Well I got a complete tour, met the owners dog etc.  It 
  seems like a great place to work!    I brought my 
  lambda   dual 0-250 power supply along and the testing proceeded. 7 
  good, one with a dead vertical segment probably open weld. So he said $250 for 
  the 8. He didn't have change for a $20 so we agreed on $247 as I didn't have 
  any other change. I am a very happy camper.   He also really likes 
  the old 60s HP nixie volt meters and counters. He has taken apart and repaired 
  the LDR coupling units in these units. He has lots of other geek electronics 
  as well. On top of all this he works only about 7 miles from where our son and 
  his family live. So we went out and had a nice dinner afterwards with the 
  family. Now that was one Nixielisious day!  I think we are going to have 
  a good friendship going down the road.     Tim Laing. 
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Re: [neonixie-l] Craigslist, gotta love it! 8 B7971s

2016-03-02 Thread Michail1 via neonixie-l 
Super kewl!
 
Michail  Wilson
206-920-6312
 

 
In a message dated 3/2/2016 12:31:53 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
lai...@wcoil.com writes:

I had a  pure luck moment on Craigslist, was looking for French doors, 
nothing of  interest. Then while I was at it, I looked for Tektronix, nothing 
interesting.  Then electronic test equipment Down the listings, and posted 
about   four weeks ago were Burroughs B7971s. Selling as untested but 
working about 20  years ago when removed from working industrial screw counting 
machine that was  scrapped. There were up to 8 tubes available.  $100 for 2, 
$350 for all  8. I contacted the seller who was in Columbus OH about 85 
miles from me.   He was real nice. If he didn't have to ship them I could have 
them for $300.  We also agreed I could test them before purchase. So I got 
off work at 6 AM go  home get some sleep and the wife and road trip!  I went 
to his place of  work where I was amazed to find they custom manufacture flow 
meters in house.  The flow meters are completely designed and assembled 
including the circuit  boards right in their moderate sized building. Some even 
go to NASA for use  with their launch systems. He is the circuit and 
circuit board designer.  Neat!!  
Well I got a complete tour, met the owners dog etc.  It  seems like a great 
place to work! 
I brought my  lambda   dual 0-250 power supply along and the testing 
proceeded. 7  good, one with a dead vertical segment probably open weld. So he 
said $250 for  the 8. He didn't have change for a $20 so we agreed on $247 as I 
didn't have  any other change. I am a very happy camper. 
He also really likes  the old 60s HP nixie volt meters and counters. He has 
taken apart and repaired  the LDR coupling units in these units. He has 
lots of other geek electronics  as well. On top of all this he works only about 
7 miles from where our son and  his family live. So we went out and had a 
nice dinner afterwards with the  family. Now that was one Nixielisious day!  
I think we are going to have  a good friendship going down the road. Tim 
Laing.  

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Re: [neonixie-l] Craigslist, gotta love it! 8 B7971s

2016-03-02 Thread Nicholas Stock 
That Tim, is a really great story! Very fortuitous for many reasons!

Cheers,

Nick

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> On Mar 2, 2016, at 00:31, Tim Laing  wrote:
> 
> I had a pure luck moment on Craigslist, was looking for French doors, nothing 
> of interest. Then while I was at it, I looked for Tektronix, nothing 
> interesting. Then electronic test equipment Down the listings, and posted 
> about  four weeks ago were Burroughs B7971s. Selling as untested but working 
> about 20 years ago when removed from working industrial screw counting 
> machine that was scrapped. There were up to 8 tubes available.  $100 for 2, 
> $350 for all 8. I contacted the seller who was in Columbus OH about 85 miles 
> from me.  He was real nice. If he didn't have to ship them I could have them 
> for $300. We also agreed I could test them before purchase. So I got off work 
> at 6 AM go home get some sleep and the wife and road trip!  I went to his 
> place of work where I was amazed to find they custom manufacture flow meters 
> in house. The flow meters are completely designed and assembled including the 
> circuit boards right in their moderate sized building. Some even go to NASA 
> for use with their launch systems. He is the circuit and circuit board 
> designer. Neat!!  
> Well I got a complete tour, met the owners dog etc.  It seems like a great 
> place to work! 
>   I brought my lambda   dual 0-250 power supply along and the testing 
> proceeded. 7 good, one with a dead vertical segment probably open weld. So he 
> said $250 for the 8. He didn't have change for a $20 so we agreed on $247 as 
> I didn't have any other change. I am a very happy camper. 
>  He also really likes the old 60s HP nixie volt meters and counters. He has 
> taken apart and repaired the LDR coupling units in these units. He has lots 
> of other geek electronics as well. On top of all this he works only about 7 
> miles from where our son and his family live. So we went out and had a nice 
> dinner afterwards with the family. Now that was one Nixielisious day!  I 
> think we are going to have a good friendship going down the road. Tim 
> Laing. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
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[neonixie-l] Craigslist, gotta love it! 8 B7971s

2016-03-02 Thread Tim Laing 
I had a pure luck moment on Craigslist, was looking for French doors, nothing 
of interest. Then while I was at it, I looked for Tektronix, nothing 
interesting. Then electronic test equipment Down the listings, and posted 
about  four weeks ago were Burroughs B7971s. Selling as untested but working 
about 20 years ago when removed from working industrial screw counting machine 
that was scrapped. There were up to 8 tubes available.  $100 for 2, $350 for 
all 8. I contacted the seller who was in Columbus OH about 85 miles from me.  
He was real nice. If he didn't have to ship them I could have them for $300. We 
also agreed I could test them before purchase. So I got off work at 6 AM go 
home get some sleep and the wife and road trip!  I went to his place of work 
where I was amazed to find they custom manufacture flow meters in house. The 
flow meters are completely designed and assembled including the circuit boards 
right in their moderate sized building. Some even go to NASA for use with their 
launch systems. He is the circuit and circuit board designer. Neat!!  
Well I got a complete tour, met the owners dog etc.  It seems like a great 
place to work! 
   I brought my lambda   dual 0-250 power supply along and the testing 
proceeded. 7 good, one with a dead vertical segment probably open weld. So he 
said $250 for the 8. He didn't have change for a $20 so we agreed on $247 as I 
didn't have any other change. I am a very happy camper. 
  He also really likes the old 60s HP nixie volt meters and counters. He has 
taken apart and repaired the LDR coupling units in these units. He has lots of 
other geek electronics as well. On top of all this he works only about 7 miles 
from where our son and his family live. So we went out and had a nice dinner 
afterwards with the family. Now that was one Nixielisious day!  I think we are 
going to have a good friendship going down the road. Tim Laing. 

Sent from my iPhone

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