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Old 30th Sep 2016, 2:11 pm   #1
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Default YouTube video - making new Nixie tubes!

There's hope yet: see this video:

https://youtu.be/wxL4ElboiuA
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Old 30th Sep 2016, 2:51 pm   #2
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Amazing!

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Old 30th Sep 2016, 3:57 pm   #3
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Impressive - and interesting in it's own right. Thanks.

Maybe another thread that you might find interesting (but have probably seen already):

http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.p...eplica.716847/
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Old 30th Sep 2016, 11:57 pm   #4
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Brilliant. Going to http://www.daliborfarny.com/ reveals his story. Maybe I am stretching reality to an extreme but this kind of inspiration could lead to CRT regunning, re-manufacture of EM34s etc which would be to a tiny niche market of old tech enthusiasts like us.
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Old 1st Oct 2016, 1:43 pm   #5
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I have a nice nixie clock. Lovely conversation piece.
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Old 1st Oct 2016, 2:28 pm   #6
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Yes, fabulous to watch but with such a labour intensive process I doubt we could afford anything. It would be great to see it progress to an automated process then price would come down. Very interesting though. Norman
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Old 1st Oct 2016, 5:55 pm   #7
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I had a look, 145 (euro/pounds/dollars, at that level it doesn't matter which currency) a piece. Quite good value for such a small quantity production item. A set of four (or six) would cost less than one of the treasured output valves audio people buy, one day I may get some, call me an neonphool.
 
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I love the waving of the magic induction wands. I always wondered if it was worth making one of these to see if it would be possible to recover a few slightly air filled valves.
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They'd make it worse. They are used to create heating to free up trapped gas in metal parts, so they're used during pumping.

Freeing trapped gases in a valve not being pumped is the opposite of what you want. Maybe firing the getter would be better, hoping there is more material left.

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Re-firing the getter was the experiment I would like to try. As you say there probably won't be any remaining but it would be interesting to know.
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Brilliant. Going to http://www.daliborfarny.com/ reveals his story.
Thanks for that link - what a truly inspirational guy!

A very well made video too, really quite enthralling to watch.

Such a lot of experimentation, R&D and capital investment - all from scratch.
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Such a lot of experimentation, R&D and capital investment - all from scratch.
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Going through my head is the prospect of large, flat plate neons for replica mechanical TVs. Achieving uniform illumination was apparently a big challenge but Mr Farny seems to have cracked it.
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Old 19th Nov 2016, 12:43 pm   #14
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Default Nixie tube manufacture

Hi All

I found this on youtube today, it's from this year. Maybe one day he can diversify into making electron guns for old CRTs?

https://youtu.be/wxL4ElboiuA

Cheers

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This time nixies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA

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Default Nixie Tubes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA

Nice video on handmade Nixie Tubes
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Brilliant video
Nice to know that craftsmen are still out there!
Development must have been enormously expensive
But I wonder what market he has for these
I always loved nixie tubes
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