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28th Sep 2019, 3:32 am
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Heptode
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Posts: 503
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Magic eyes
Wow they are making 'magic eyes' again!
No connection to the seller, not endorsed. Caveat Emptor. For info only https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3300...c-f24841a40cf7 |
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28th Sep 2019, 11:21 am
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Dekatron
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Lynton, N. Devon, UK.
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Re: Magic eyes
They might only be using up big NOS quantities, to be honest.
Oh that someone WAS making magic eyes! |
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28th Sep 2019, 1:30 pm
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Heptode
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Ellesmere, Shropshire, UK & Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Re: Magic eyes
The ME here does look to be a new manufacture to me. the phosphor colour looks to be more blue like the EM84 than the green of the originals which will hopefully solve the short life of the green phosphor originals
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28th Sep 2019, 3:17 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Oxford, UK.
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Re: Magic eyes
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28th Sep 2019, 3:18 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Oxford, UK.
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Re: Magic eyes
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28th Sep 2019, 3:34 pm
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Pentode
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Maldon, Essex, UK.
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Re: Magic eyes
Looks like this to me:
https://tubes-store.com/product_info...s8c3do4hds3he2 As recommended in this thread: https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=113582 The photographs in the OP's link are from angles that would not show the Russian writing or Reflector factory logo. David |
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28th Sep 2019, 5:41 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cottingham, East Yorkshire, UK.
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Re: Magic eyes
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The lettering on the valve is, I think, in the Cyrillic alphabet. They seem to be Russian surplus stock, available in abundance, hence the low price. I could be wrong - I often am, but think that if they really were current manufacture, they'd originate from China - not Russia. The only problem I had with the Tubes Store 6EP1/6BR5/EM80, which I used when restoring a Pye 'Fenman 1', was that the diameter of the tube was slightly wider than the original EM80 - maybe only 1 - 2mm. Ordinarily, that wouldn't matter but in the Fenman 1 the eye is mounted in a hard rubber shroud, which split in half when I tried to push the valve in. No dramas - I just made a new shroud in beech to accommodate the wider tube. A couple of pics below.
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28th Sep 2019, 7:26 pm
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: West Cumbria (CA13), UK
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Re: Magic eyes
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