[neonixie-l] Re: NL-7094 Price Craziness

2020-03-01 Thread SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F.
@ Jens, Yes here is the link https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-039-Nixie-039-display-tube-valve-x-1-refA20-/164079945953?_trksid=p2047675.l2557=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT=true=BQwgeXfF5hMY3KROTb20ZgHA1Bw%253D_cvip=true=true=nc I belive its either hivac or etl, no markings present. Some GR-XX i believe.

[neonixie-l] Re: Road Trip to Apex Electronics in

2020-03-01 Thread SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F.
When i was on vaccation in california in 2017 if discovered this place by accident on the web - and of course i went for a full afternoon just to look at all the stuff they have. Just amazing to see that some people even collect and sell this stuff, just wonderful. I wish (or not ;) ) we had

[neonixie-l] Re: IN-2 Binary Nixie Clock

2020-03-01 Thread SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F.
Very cool desing! Also nice to see Arduino IOT-33, its a fantastic board, im working on a project with it too -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[neonixie-l] Displaying unused tubes

2020-03-01 Thread John Snow
Is there a good way to display yet-to-be-used nixie and VDF tubes? I've gotten in a few for later projects, and have a mix of pins and wired for both vertical and horizontal tubes. I'd like to keep them safe, but also not boxed up and infoam. Odds are it'll be a few years before I use up all

[neonixie-l] Re: Displaying unused tubes

2020-03-01 Thread SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F.
You mean "display" in form of putting them anywhere you can see them? There is one material usually used when large dip-style components, its like styrofoam but its made out of plastics to you can easily push in the dip-pins, works with tubes too. Also one possible form would be to keep them

[neonixie-l] Re: IN-2 Binary Nixie Clock

2020-03-01 Thread Marcin Saj
Thank you Jonathan. I think that each of my next projects will be based on this board. W dniu niedziela, 1 marca 2020 18:52:23 UTC+1 użytkownik SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F. napisał: > > Very cool desing! Also nice to see Arduino IOT-33, its a fantastic board, > im working on a project with it too

Re: [neonixie-l] Displaying unused tubes

2020-03-01 Thread jb-electronics
Asking the real questions here... Yeah, I know what you mean. I haven't found a good solution yet either. On a side note: Careful with that old foam stuff, sometimes it disintegrates and can rarely even destroy tube labeling. Jens On 2020-03-01 1:11 p.m., John Snow wrote: Is there a good

[neonixie-l] Displaying unused tubes

2020-03-01 Thread alb.001 alb.001
beware of some foam materials which are acidic and corrosive.  I kept a few DIP devices from the 1970's and early 1980's which were stored in the conductive black foam used with static sensitive devices.  All the pins which were in this foam material have disintegrated and sadly the IC's are 

[neonixie-l] Re: Displaying unused tubes

2020-03-01 Thread gregebert
I have an informal "museum" on my desk at work; all tubes are functionally dead (gas leak), but they otherwise satisfy everyone's curiosity. Original plan was to use a display case, but people like to hold them, etc. Everything else is archived in tube boxes, and kept in a metal ammo box.

Re: [neonixie-l] Displaying unused tubes

2020-03-01 Thread Toby Thain
On 2020-03-01 6:44 PM, alb.001 alb.001 wrote: > beware of some foam materials which are acidic and corrosive.  I kept a > few DIP devices from the 1970's and early 1980's which were stored in > the conductive black foam used with static sensitive devices.  All the > pins which were in this foam

Re: [neonixie-l] Displaying unused tubes

2020-03-01 Thread Mac Doktor
> On Mar 1, 2020, at 9:02 PM, Toby Thain wrote: > > Exactly the same happened with Monoscope CRTs that I purchased on ebay. > The original foam in the Raytheon box had turned into dust, but before > that, had acidically corroded the pins and label on the tube. A lot of polyurethane foam