I would be in the same situation myself. As I have noted before, back in
1979 when I was still in High School, I had built a six-digit clock based
on an MM5311 clock chip (still works though many components upgraded by me
over the years). The tubes and sockets came from three of the stock
A quick Google search shows some for sale. Running around USD$20. I myself
have MM5311N for a clock a built in 1979. Picked up spares in 2004.
On Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 12:58:18 PM UTC-5 Nicholas Stock wrote:
> Fellow nixie nuts, a Happy New Year to you all, let's hope 2024 brings
> good
It would an interesting idea but the glass would block the ionizing
radiation (alpha and probably most beta particles from daughter elements in
the ore).
I have the same issue with B-7971's in a dark room. Unless I shine a
flashlight at them, it takes them a bit of time to turn on from a cold
Memories! I have two of those Archer Nixie tubes still in the same
packaging. I got them in the closeout bin when RadioShack stopped carrying
them. The store crossed out the $2.29 in pen and wrote $.99. Back around
1975 that was still a lot of money for a kid with a paper route but I got
the
On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 at 00:07:04 UTC+1 gregebert wrote:
I'm not a fan of multiplexing nixies because of the additional current that
can lead to shorter lifespan.
Me neither as I can hear the whine of the vibrating segments in my old
B-7971 clock I built in 1979 that is
y seen over 10k hours of service instead of being NOS.
>
> On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 6:12:57 AM UTC-7 Robert G. Schaffrath wrote:
> When B-7971's appear on eBay, they tend to sell for around $175-$200 each.
> Not that big a markup over the original price when inflation is take
of them that appear to have been made.
Robert
On Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 11:58:32 AM UTC-4 Robert wrote:
Interesting that the B 8971 is much more expensive than the B7971, was this
used in any commercial products ?
Thanks
Rob
On 2 Sep 2023, at 14:13, Robert G. Schaffrath <> wrote:
The B-7971 is an interesting study. It is listed at $15.85 in single
quantities, which is still worse than the $5/each I paid for NOS surplus
from Meshna in 1979. However, running that number through the inflation
calculator for January 1970 to July 2023 and I get $128.18 (which is
shocking to
I have one of the pin top tubes
(https://n2jtx.com/NixieClock/Used%20Burroughs%20B-7971.jpg). Unlike most
of my other tubes, it is a Burroughs branded tube and not Ultronics. The
only thing I ever noticed different about it was it seemed to have a deeper
red glow than the Ultronics tubes which
When I saw this subject I was thinking of the Visoglow Neon Lightning
Arrester that I bought NIB from Fair Radio Sales over 40 years ago. Never
used it and only bought it for the novelty of a three terminal neon bulb in
it. Found a picture of it online
at
If this sells then I have a defective B7971 I would put up too. At least
mine still lights up. A few segments do not work but at least it does not
have a hole in the glass LOL.
On Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 10:34:41 AM UTC-4 Nick Andrews wrote:
I don't think it is just Group but with Google overall. I use Gmail and I
noticed a large uptick in legitimate messages appearing in the SPAM folder.
I used to have to check it once every two days or so but now it is flagging
many things I consider innocuous. As some others posts have noted,
That is the exact same thing amateur radio operators need to their wives as
well!
On Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 12:07:43 AM UTC-5 petehand wrote:
> I've told my wife, when I'm gone, under no circumstances sell my nixie
> junk for what I told you I paid for it!
>
>
>
--
You received this
Several years ago when I got back into Nixie clocks, I took a few to church
with me to show a friend. A few of our members are either still active or
retired from the airlines (Pan Am, Delta, Jet Blue). One member who worked
for Pan Am and retired from Delta on the ground crew at JFK saw my
Wow! I still have one of those boards, with sockets, and can populate it
with two NOS tubes. To think those complete assemblies used to sell for
USD$5 or less in the 1970's. Of course 10 years from now, this might look
like a bargain. I am amazed that B7971's are now in the $200 range (and
My late father was a Professor of Chemistry. He had a collection of spectra
tubes of the various elemental gases. I added chlorine and mercury to that
collection many years later after he had passed when I found a good deal
online for those tubes. At one time, I took pictures of those tubes
tery back up the
> time and settings?
> Yes setting the time and backlight is rather twisted.
>
>> On Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 10:17:04 AM UTC-6 Robert G. Schaffrath
>> wrote:
>> I have one of those that I bought two years ago. Relatively easy to assemble
>>
I have one of those that I bought two years ago. Relatively easy to
assemble I believe socket pins were included. Setting the clock is annoying
though.
On Monday, December 12, 2022 at 10:15:01 PM UTC-5 Terry S wrote:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/314168311777
>
> Many sellers on ebay.
>
> Does it
I agree. For me my favorites come down to the ZM1020/ZM1022's, Rodan
GR-111Pa's and IN-17's. I picked up a bunch of NOS IN-17's a few years ago
just before COVID hit and prices went off the rails. Have not done anything
with them yet though I would like to make a tiny 6-digit clock. I like
d well, need to start over
> again. I mean, ll be dead and not caring any more, but it would be a shame
> for so much money to be lost for my brothers or nieces...
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:37 AM Robert G. Schaffrath <
> robert.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I see
I see they sold but no idea what the offer was.
I agree that selling them as a lot rather than individually is not that
great an idea. I have six NOS, and a seventh used, bubble wrapped and in a
box with a detailed note about them for whichever family member stumbles
across them someday
Poly Paks, Meshna, et al. By 1979 used tubes were $4/each and NOS were
$5/each at Meshna. I bought a few NOS that I still have but looking back,
yes I wish I had bought more. But, honestly, what to do with all of them
back then? They were still pretty common.
On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at
"Magic Eye" tubes are some of my earliest memories of interesting displays
when I was a child. My maternal grandparents had a Dumont TV (didn't
everyone LOL?) that used a 6AL7 eye tube for tuning the built in AM
receiver. My father had a Fisher AM/FM receiver (with add-on stereo MPX
Wow, I have not seen those ".22 caliber" Neon bulbs (A1H) since I was a kid
back in the 1970's. Somewhere I think I have a few. A friends father was an
EE and had a bunch of them from work. The friend gave me a few to play
with. I recall that even though they physically looked the same, some
My biggest issues with eBay in the past were not receiving and item though
it was a rare occurrence. I would contact eBay and they would tell me to
contact PayPal. Contacted PayPal and they would tell me to contact eBay.
One big circle j__k. Since the amounts had been under USD$10, I just wrote
Ammo boxes are good for protecting from typical crushing and water but will
not protect from fire. If you ever examine a real fireproof box sold for
important papers (I have one I bought at Staples years ago), they have very
thick sides and are quite heavy. And they have a rating on how long
I have an old US Navy scope but I have no idea of the USM model. I bought
it at a hamfest back in the mid-1970's when I was a kid for $5. It was made
by Dumont no less! The thing weighs a ton. The 5JP1 tube was bad and it
needed to be recapped. My maternal grandfather gifted me a new tube that
ff like missing
>>>> feet for test gear etc. The resolution is legit. Unlike many 3D printers
>>>> you really can't see the layers and it's finally something you can afford
>>>> to buy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There w
I paid $125 for 25 NOS Philips ZM1022's back in 2002. Kicking myself I did
not buy 50 at the time as I had the money and they are one of my favorite
style tubes. They sat packed away for years until 2019 when I got several
of the four digit Chinese clocks that use them.
On Saturday, January
At this rate, in a few years, they may catch up to Rodan CD47's.
On Thursday, January 13, 2022 at 9:03:00 AM UTC-5 Richard Katezansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 3 with sockets. Given the odd number they will probably just sit
> around forever. I'm located in Montreal, Canada. Make me an offer.
Which is why I am sitting on my NOS B7971 tubes. Someday I think my heirs
will be pleasantly surprised at the value of the bubble wrapped tubes in
the carton they are stored in. I already have a note in the box to the
attention of whomever to do research before they just toss them out and
some
I checked some of the old Burroughs documentation and I cannot find an "e"
either. They only seemed to use the alternate font to spell "Burroughs
Corporation". I have a PDF scan of catalog 616 (available on the Internet
and it has no other examples.
Then for fun, I made an image of the logo
$1 for a B-7971?!?! Incredible. The best price I ever saw was late
1970's/early 1980's when they were still common. As I mentioned in the
past, I got six NOS B-7971's around that time from Meshna Electronics for
$5/each IIRC. The used ones were $1 cheaper and I decided to splurge. The
first
It looks something like this Philips ZM1020 on eBay right now:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/402975545372
On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 9:35:31 PM UTC-4 Pramanicin wrote:
> I've seen a few of the Z560 series tubes and ZM1020's with this kind of
> half-assed coating, so I wonder if you have a lab
Is there a link about this socket? I have enough spare B-7971's to complete
one.
On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 1:54:50 AM UTC-4 tntm...@gmail.com wrote:
> Very nice
>
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 1:53 AM Richard Scales
> wrote:
>
>> [image: IMG_20210627_064608.jpg]
>>
>> --
>> You received this
I noticed the upward trend in early fall of 2019. I had just gotten back
into Nixie's so I figured I had better jump and I went out and got a batch
of NOS IN-12B, IN-17 and IN-15A/B's. The IN-15's are really just a
curiosity item for their symbols.
As people have noted, they are not making
Back in the 1990's I purchased new surplus CRT based viewfinder module
designed for a camcorder from a surplus electronics vendor. Was rather
inexpensive. It has a tiny 1" B CRT and takes composite NTSC video. The
only issue with it was the image was mirrored due to it being designed to
be
Yes the work done to get color into the 3.58MHz (well something
like 3.579545MHz) was incredible. The math involved in transmitting the RGB
info is truly amazing. And it was all decoded through analog circuitry! No
digital processing involved. Quite a feat for its day. In fact, NTSC TV's
were
I haven't sold on eBay in ages but I bought some items from time-to-time
that are often "Out of Stock" but still have their history going back a
year or more. Didn't realize it was possible to keep the entry live while
the item was unavailable. Crazy thing is an eBay search does not show them
On Friday, February 5, 2021 at 6:26:36 AM UTC-5 Ian Sparkes wrote:
> So, it started like this: I liked the Zirffa style Chinese boards - I
> thought the hardware was pretty good, but the firmware was really
> primitive. I was going to set about re-writing the firmware for these
> boards, but
I wish the B7971 kits that pop up from time to time were not so expensive.
I have enough of the very expensive parts (the tubes) but I missed out on
the boards years ago. I do not fire up my old MM5311 based clock much,
built in 1979/1980, as the multiplexing whine bothers me now. The six tubes
I was able to buy a box of 100 for $15.99 back in 2019. I noticed that the
glass color tended to vary from almost clear to dark. in the lot I tested a
few for a period of time and found, oddly enough, the dark colored glass
ones seemed to fare better. I only tested about 10 bulbs in total but
I have a 15" Micron branded Trinitron monitor that I purchased back in 1999
for around $130. Used it for many years. I eventually switched to an LCD
and brought the monitor to the office for safe keeping. We eventually
ditched all of the CRT based monitors at the office except for one on a
I recall that back in the late 1990's, my local post office had a giant
USPS logo'ed LED clock on the wall behind the counter that counted down to
the millennium. I was very impressed with it and wondered what they would
do with it after the count hit zero on January 1, 2000. Well it turns out
Over a year ago I purchased three of the four-digit Chinese IN-12 clocks
with the LED background lights. Of those, two of them were complete junk
and AliExpress refunded my money so I only paid USD$20 for the one good
clock (I offered to return the bad ones but they did not want them -
I thought the JP47 project was abandoned. I was very impressed by the
craftmanship but was not a fan of the anode style. It looks exactly like
the wire clothe I buy at Home Depot for
outdoors:
I got my first board from Poly Paks sometime in the late 1970’s. Probably
paid about $4 if I recall. One tube had shorted segments. I was about 15.
Then in 1979 I decided to build a clock and bought three boards from
Meshna Electronics. After I assembled that, I decided I would get spare
ow! That's serious stuff! :)"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Haha, you just don't have the addiction going strong (yet). I'm
>>>>>> pretty sure I am up over 20 scint probes or parts to make them now, and
>>>>>> let's just say quite a few G
Back in the late 1970's, I purchased an old ARC-44 radio that came with a
warning about Cobalt-60. Seems the 5829/WA and 5787/WA tubes contained
Cobalt-60. However, with a half life of 5.3 years, the tubes showed no
activity on a Geiger counter. By the time I got the radio as surplus, three
I always found inductors to be the bane of electronics projects. Resistors,
capacitors and other discrete components were always readily available in
standard values but inductors were that odd item that you often wound up
having wind yourself on a core that itself was difficult to obtain.
I have a 1st generation Honda Insight hybrid made in 2000. It has a DC-DC
converter that produces very clean power (it takes the 144 VDC and down
converts it to high amperage 12-14 VDC). The voltage does swing between
approximately 12.1 VDC to 14.1 VDC which is the normal range for an
Had the same thing with a NOS IN-12B though they do not compare to a NIMO
outgassing. I was refunded the cost of the IN-12B and they are readily
replaceable. But those metal to glass bonds are not always tenacious.
Outgassing has been an issue with vacuum tubes since the dawn of their
"Those nimo look like tiny CRTs! If anyone can make them it’s Dalibor!"
Talk about a niche market. Not only are they infinitely more complex to
construct than a Nixie tube, the market for them would be even smaller than
for his Nixie tubes.
I had commented on the short YouTube video that it
Just theorizing but it would appear to be for legibility. The anode has to
cover the the surface area of every digit for uniform lighting and firing
current. At the same time, too much anode material blocks the light. Of the
various tubes I have, Rodan GR-111Pa’s use a very fine spiral type
I have had two cases of cathode poisoning. The first is with Rodan GR-111Pa
tubes that are installed on an IN-14 board. I had noticed issues early on
and the tubes were a bit dim. It was recommended either here or on the FB
Nixie Clock page to replace the anode resistors with a lower value as
In terms of longevity provided by mercury one just need look at the Chinese
QS27-1 and QS30-1 tubes that contain no mercury. They are known to have
very short lives. I also understand that Russian tubes prior to the IN-7,
which does contain mercury, also have very short lifespans. I see a lot
I do not have those. Early this year I purchased 10 NOS IN-15A's and 10 NOS
IN-15B's as the prices were quite cheap since there really is no demand for
them. Have been trying to decide about what to do with them. Using IN-12's
for the letter I and O, there are a few words that can be spelled
Interesting article. I did not know there was a big issue with the Chinese
DS3231's but I had my suspicions. Back in November 2019 I ordered three
4-tube IN-12 clocks for about $25/each from AliExpress (looks like this one
on eBay:
On Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 11:07:09 AM UTC-4, H. Carl Ott wrote:
>
>
> They use a lot of hc595 shift registers and uln2003s to drive the tube,
> Dirt cheap, but there is a DS3231 TCXO RTC on the pcb :).
>
>
> carl
>
> Henry Carl Ott
This was posted on the Facebook Nixie group too. It was noted the "8" looks
a bit funky. I'd like to see the digits as well but I have not seen any
screenshots of the other digits. Granted "funky" coming from those of us
who use IN-12's and IN-14's with the inverted "2" LOL.
On Sunday, May 31,
The price is crazy. Especially for a new manufacturer on the scene with no
history. Dalibor is definitely a better value and I like his anode design
too. if it was a CD47 clone it might be worth the risk but for $300 you
might as well get two new DF tubes or some B-7971's.
On Sunday, May 31,
This past week I received three packets from China. Two were stuck in China
waiting for air transport around April 7th (a third was last seen at a sorting
center in Harlem when USPS accidentally entered the tracking number for a “U”
untracked id and I saw it before they corrected the mistake).
My late father was a Professor of Chemistry and we often had "interesting"
chemicals at home (Benzene, Diethyl Ether, Pentane, Carbon Tetrachloride
(CCL), Butyl Acetate, Lab Alcohol, Toluene, Xylene and Sodium Hydroxide
right off the top of my head). He also collected elements and I still have
Ooh, I have been out of the loop lately. I had not heard that. I have an
odd fondness for front facing tubes like the ZM102x's and IN-12's. Maybe
because the first Nixie tubes I ever saw (and captivated me) were front
facing ones back around 1972 IIRC. Large tubes like that B-7095 that have
I have several items ordered through AliExpress languishing in shipment
since mid April. Some items ordered a week or two earlier actually made it
through but everything else from early April is listed as delivered to air
transport (or shipping) in mid-April and there are no further updates. My
I had only one tube that had shorted segments: 4 & 5. I was able to fix
them last fall with the banging method but due to having played with the
tube over the last 40 years, there were other issues with it. Plus, after
banging it to remove the short, I noted that segment 2 is now flaky and not
There was a post a little while ago about two Nixie's that appeared on eBay
that are now priced $360 for two. The post was deleted so I cannot reply to
it. I was wondering what is the test module that is powering the tubes
demonstrating that all segments are functional? I tried a bit of Google
The first time I ever saw an Ultronics board was at a hamfest here on Long
Island. It was either 1975 or 1976 making me either 13 or 14. I had no idea
exactly what it was but I could tell it was some kind of display tube. The
seller wanted $5, which looking back the price Burstein Applebee
“BTW, was Ultronics the only manufacturer to use B7971's in their products?”
No. On eBay right now there is a commercial scoreboard device for sale the that
uses 15 B-7971’s. No tubes included.
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he words "removed from operational equipment". Did your NOS actually come
> in Burroughs boxes marked with the tube type, or were they just covered in
> bubble wrap? Did they look any different than the ones you got with the
> boards?
>
> On Friday, April 3, 2020
Yes, Meshna is where I got three boards from in 1979 and later on my seven
NOS tubes. By 1980, the prices had almost doubled (used tubes were USD$4
and NOS were USD$5) which is understandable considering the massive
inflation in the 1970's. I do not recall what I paid for the 3 boards in
1979.
I too have similar NE-2G bulbs that are white colored and glow green when
powered. I bought a pack of 20 a while back from China. They are about half
the size of what a traditional NE-2 measured. However, I have about 10 or
so NE-2G's that I purchased from Radio Shack back in the 1970's. Those
Could have had FOUR for $8.88!
On Friday, April 3, 2020 at 6:26:28 AM UTC-4, Robert G. Schaffrath wrote:
>
> I am not sure what the exchange rate was then but I recall seeing an old
> Burstein Applebee ad not too long ago from around that time where they were
> around USD$2.50
I am not sure what the exchange rate was then but I recall seeing an old
Burstein Applebee ad not too long ago from around that time where they were
around USD$2.50 each IIRC. By 1980, they were USD$4 each for pulls or USD$5
each for the seven NOS I purchased.
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I saw them when they first appeared. I didn't need them and thought the
price was actually pretty good compared to prices in the USD$175 range only
a few weeks ago. There are various multi-tube devices for sale now and they
are priced around USD$120 or so per tube.
It is hard to believe those
That is the position I am coming from. I already have a six tube B-7971
clock that I built in 1979-1980 so at the moment I do not need another of
that design. And I have been playing ZM1022's, IN-12's and GR-111p's so
already have more clocks than I know what to do with at the moment LOL. I
As of a few minutes ago there were 16 bids and the price was up to USD$356.
Absolutely crazy but realistically there is nothing comparable being made
currently and the Russians did not produce them either.
I am going to have to look at putting the six NOS Burroughs branded tubes
that I posted
There is an error on the page that I noticed. The ZM1020 label is incorrect
based on the tube shown. It should be ZM1210. ZM1020's (and ZM1022's) are
round end-view tubes that are the same as the QS30-1 (except the ZM's have
mercury in them).
Robert
On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 1:41:08 PM
I recall an article I read years ago about the old RADAR tubes and
phosphors used. There was a RADAR scope tube that had a mix of two
phosphors. One phosphor produced a short persistence bright blue light from
the target and the other was the longer persistence P12 type orange
phosphor that
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 4:52:19 AM UTC-5, Oscilloclock wrote:
>
> Sounds like a good investment! Unless someone starts to produce new NIMOs..
>
> - Aaron
>
While I think they are very interesting, I cannot imagine someone making
new ones or even that big a demand for them beyond a
On Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 2:46:55 PM UTC-5, gregebert wrote:
>
> I'll take a dozen NL7037..
>
> I do remember getting one of these catalogs from Radio Shack back in the
> 70's; pages and pages really neat stuff.
>
I had a catalog too from Radio Shack as they were also owned by Tandy.
That is the problem with my MM5311 based B7971 clock that I built 40
(ugh) years ago. The multiplexing causes the tubes to whine. It did not
bother me much when I was younger but as I got older and was not sleeping
as soundly, the noise became bothersome. I tried changing the frequency but
its
. Probably
have the TI-57 somewhere too. I retired it when I got the TI-59.
On Wednesday, January 1, 2020 at 3:53:39 PM UTC-5, Terry Bowman wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 1, 2020, at 8:45 AM, Robert G. Schaffrath > wrote:
>
> There were ways to send ASCII symbols to the ASR33 punch that ca
For me it was a timeshared PDP/11-70 which was located several miles from
my high school. We had two "fast" DecWriter II's running at 300 baud that
were used for normal interactive programming and two ASR33 teletypes that
we could punch our assignments on offline and then upload later when an
I always found Argon have an interesting color. My late father was a
Professor of Chemistry and I still have all of his elemental gas discharge
tubes that I fire up occasionally. Years ago I posted a simple website
demonstrating them all at http://schaffrath.net/Spectra. The Argon tube is
at
Looking at the bids, the winner has a feedback of "1":
https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/264542801859?item=264542801859=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2565
And the second and third highest bidders have feedback's of 30 and 31.
Either shill bidders or someone really really dumb. The sanest bid looks
like
The numbers are bit too fancy for my taste. I actually write my 7's with a
line through them (a habit I picked up decades ago doing all-hands-on-deck
warehouse serial number inventory and we were told to do that to prevent
confusion with the number 1 as well as write S's as $ to avoid confusing
I know. With the 11/11 "Singles" sale on AliExpress today, they have gotten
even cheaper. I ordered up two QS30-1 units for ~USD$26 each for my
ZM1022's. I already have two of that model and I really like them so I will
have a few more to possibly give as gifts (I still have 17 NOS ZM1022's on
The anode being used looks kind of funky compared to the one used on the
CD47. It reminds me of the metal cloth fencing I buy at Home Depot to keep
the rabbits out of my garden:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-1-4-in-x-2-ft-x-100-ft-Hardware-Cloth-308245EB/205960853
On Wednesday, October
Indeed. In the earlier days of me being licensed, my HF rig zapped me a few
times due to problematic grounding issues. Seemed to have the most problems
on 75m and 10m.
On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 6:30:01 PM UTC-4, Terry Bowman wrote:
>
>
> RF burns are the worst. Tesla put thimbles on his
my account
for using an AMEX card so I decided to order 18 NOS IN-17 tubes too as I
think I may have some future use for those very tiny ones (and they have a
real "5"). If not, I doubt they will lose any value.
On Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 9:18:24 AM UTC-4, Robert G. Schaffrath
wro
I am 57 now and during my younger years I have been shocked by
approximately 600 VDC from a charged filter capacitor in an old tube
amplifier. I had just powered off the unit and had my hand on the metal
chassis. My needle nose pliers hit the positive on the capacitor and the
jolt was so
; On Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 2:47:12 PM UTC-3, Robert G. Schaffrath
> wrote:
>>
>> I just picked up a lot of 12 (2 x 6) NOS IN-12 Nixie's on eBay that are
>> temporarily price reduced 20% to USD$8.80. Total came to USD$30.00 + my
>> local tax. I am really not c
The link is:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F273821219802
Being new I wasn’t sure of policy on posting links to sales. I have no
connection to seller.
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I just picked up a lot of 12 (2 x 6) NOS IN-12 Nixie's on eBay that are
temporarily price reduced 20% to USD$8.80. Total came to USD$30.00 + my
local tax. I am really not crazy about the inverted "2" but as they are not
making these any more, having some on hand for possible future use seemed
I may have to get one or two. I have seen some Chinese boards that use them
as VU meters. Very interesting to watch and I love the shade of green they
produce.
The "Magic Eye" tubes are some of my earliest memories of electronics. My
parents ancient Fisher stereo uses a very rare 6GE12 tube
fashion on a table. The
>> socket being used to protect the pins and the nipple. Also try smacking
>> the face of the tube into your hand.
>>
>>
>>
>> Michail Wilson
>>
>> 206-920-6312
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* neoni...@googleg
I will definitely post the results when I make the change. I am going to
wait until the warranty return period is over before I make any changes. I
put a short 30 second video of the clock in operation at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC2LtsPWbPc. The tubes are the ZM1022's.
This morning I
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> From: "Robert G. Schaffrath" >
> Date: 10/8/19 8:47 AM (GMT-06:00)
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With me it is the only B-7971 tube I have like that. It came from the first
Ultronics board I ever purchased in the late 1970's. It came from Poly Paks
IIRC. It was actually a bad deal for me. Apparently the board had been
serviced which explains the genuine Burroughs tube that was on the
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