Re: [neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-05-04 Thread Paul Andrews
That pain is the feeling of money leaving your bank account to buy Nixie tubes -- 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

Re: [neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-05-03 Thread Bill Notfaded
At least maybe you guys can retire sometime... I'm afraid I may work a long time. Just this year reached my fifth decade and all I can say is I noticed some stuff hurts more now... Like in my shoulder and elbow working on networks and computer science all day. I am excited about one thing though

Re: [neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-05-03 Thread Nicholas Stock
Such is life. Maybe retirement is a little closer! :-) Who am I kidding. Sent from my iPhone > On May 3, 2019, at 17:09, 'Greg P' via neonixie-l > wrote: > > I'd be glad to sell some of my 7971's for that price. Crazy how much these > have shot up recently. > > > >> On Friday, May

Re: [neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-05-03 Thread 'Greg P' via neonixie-l
I'd be glad to sell some of my 7971's for that price. Crazy how much these have shot up recently. On Friday, May 3, 2019 at 6:05:59 PM UTC-4, Bill Notfaded wrote: > > It's up to 356$ in the auction for these tubes now soldered to the PCB? > It's not the correct tubes for the anime movie

Re: [neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-05-03 Thread gregebert
Cant be legitimate bidding; these tubes are neither large nor shown operating. Notice 1 bidder keeps pushing the price up. -- 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

Re: [neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-05-03 Thread Bill Notfaded
It's up to 356$ in the auction for these tubes now soldered to the PCB? It's not the correct tubes for the anime movie clock... Go figure??? And it's not even over yet! Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: [neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-04-30 Thread Mac Doktor
That's "score and break". DERR > On Apr 30, 2019, at 2:29 PM, Mac Doktor wrote: > >> On Apr 30, 2019, at 8:45 AM, Richard Scales wrote: >> >> Why not leave the tubes in the board, use the drivers that are already there >> too. Use something like a Dremel to slice of the socket area - job

Re: [neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-04-30 Thread Nicholas Stock
I highly doubt you’ll do the tubes any damage using a good desoldering station. As I said, i safely pulled over 100 DR2000 numitrons out of boards that were soldered in like that with no issues Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2019, at 11:29, Mac Doktor wrote: > > >> On Apr 30, 2019, at

Re: [neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-04-30 Thread Mac Doktor
> On Apr 30, 2019, at 8:45 AM, Richard Scales wrote: > > Why not leave the tubes in the board, use the drivers that are already there > too. Use something like a Dremel to slice of the socket area - job done? If it's not fiberglass you could core and break the PC board. You might have to

[neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-04-29 Thread Paul Andrews
Yeah, saw these go crazy too. Not sure why, these have are not the tubes used by people building a divergence meter. I didn’t realize that these were tubes with pins soldered directly to the board. First time I’ve seen that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-04-28 Thread Mac Doktor
> On Apr 28, 2019, at 9:39 PM, gregebert wrote: > > Use a suction-type desoldering tool (Edsyn Soldapult has been my favorite for > almost 40 years now). First, apply a small amount of fresh solder as it will > help heat the joint more uniformly. Then suck away as much molten solder as >

[neonixie-l] More crazy because of anime movie...

2019-04-28 Thread Bill Notfaded
https://www.ebay.com/itm/NIXIE-Tubes-Assembly-National-Electronics-NL-900-7-tubes-/254212409800 I bid early on the when it was less than 100$... The fact that the tubes are soldered to the board may not be good for them. I'm not experienced with soldering tubes to boards... It's just not the