Laser cutting etc. is a tiny tiny part of it. Production of suitable
"biscuits" (the bases), lead-throughs, all the little ceramic bits &
pieces, getting the cathode & anode compositions right, the frames,
anodes, spotwelding the wires, filling the envelope, degassing,
filling, induction baking, Hg
some to a melody with a
little quicker tempo. We don't need to make millions of tubes in a year, just
thousands or maybe 10s of thousands of 10 or so varieties.
-joe
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From: figureloop
Sent: 07/02/2011, 11:29 PM
To: neonixie-l
Subject: [neonixie-l] Re: Possible s
On Jul 2, 5:31 pm, Charles MacDonald wrote:
> Trick is always tooling costs. to make your run of the mill nixie you
> need to have the digits. They have to be perfectly uniform, lest they
> not light evenly and perfectly flat. The holes for the Stacking have to
> be all in the right place.
The
On 11-07-02 03:34 PM, astroschmidt wrote:
IF the development and fabrication of a large nixie with 50...80mm
digit height is (hopefully) easier than the EL 845 tube and a volume
of perhaps 1000 pieces could be ordered, it's perhaps worth a thought
by the kit manufacturers :-)
Trick is always t
Well, according to the article the 845 Triode by Elrog was developed
and is produced only for one special German high-end HiFi-factory and
one of their amplifiers:
http://www.cayin.de/english/ev_9088d.htm
So the production run of the mentioned EL 845 triode is certainly not
in the millions an
There are several small companies producing new audio tubes - some
have fantastic videos showing how its done - one at least in the Czech
Republic.
The ones I know of are mostly hand made by staff from now-defunct tube
factories - they bought the equipment & knowledge necessary with them.
Its a v
On Jul 2, 5:50 am, astroschmidt wrote:
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> According to the report Dr. Schaffernicht really seems to have the
> know-how, subcontractors and machines to develop and produce new top-
> quality tubes, though of course for premium prices.
> The article mentions 440 Euros (ca. 600 US-$) for the n
