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Homemade nixie - there's still hope
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"cagamba"
In a quest for information on the techniques for making nixie tubes, I came across this recent post on Hack-a-Day about someone who managed to make a (rudimentary) nixie from home. It's a start...
Borrowing from Jan's comment in another thread, about passing the hobby on to the next generation: the guy is in his upper 20's and builds tubes from home. If you will, get the guy an old tube factory (Schindler's List-style), a can of neon and let him do his thing! Hack-a-Day his homepage in English his nixie building page My initial quest stands, does anyone has literature (perhaps a video) on nixie building? Marco |
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"alek"
Yes, I'm here;)
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----- Original Message -----
From: Quixotic Nixotic To: NEONIXIE-L@... Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [NEONIXIE-L] Homemade nixie - there's still hope On 6 Aug 2010, at 15:55, cagamba wrote: > the guy is in his upper 20's and builds tubes from home. He's in this group. John S |
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westdave
yes we would like you to make a green colored nixie tube please
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before lunch would be fine -----Original Message-----
From: alek <aleksander.zawada@...> To: NEONIXIE-L@... Sent: Fri, Aug 6, 2010 8:17 am Subject: Re: [NEONIXIE-L] Homemade nixie - there's still hope Yes, I'm here;) ----- Original Message ----- From: Quixotic Nixotic To: NEONIXIE-L@... Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [NEONIXIE-L] Homemade nixie - there's still hope On 6 Aug 2010, at 15:55, cagamba wrote: the guy is in his upper 20's and builds tubes from home.He's in this group. John S [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Charles MacDonald
Back in the Early 1980s, I was out of work and and there was a job listing at the unemployment office for a "Neon Sign Bender- Pumpman" I have often wondered if my life would have been different if I had applied for that job.
-- Charles MacDonald Stittsville Ontario cmacd@... Just Beyond the Fringe No Microsoft Products were used in sending this e-mail. |
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NeonJohn
Well, you'd likely be unemployed now. Neon is dying again. It almost
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died once in the 60s, the victim of the new plastic faced signs. This time it is a combination of LEDs, over-regulation and too many shops doing sloppy work that doesn't last long. I still have my shop but I haven't lit the fires in probably a year. John Charles MacDonald wrote: Back in the Early 1980s, I was out of work and and there was a job --
John DeArmond Tellico Plains, Occupied TN <-- email from here <-- Best damned Blog on the net PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 |
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"Jonathan Peakall"
I think proper managerial form requires requesting the work be done before morning break. Then grudgingly and with no praise accept the project being done by lunch.
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Jonathan yes we would like you to make a green colored nixie tube please before lunch would be fine -----Original Message-----
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"The Fool"
--- In NEONIXIE-L@..., NeonJohn <jgd@...> wrote:
Well, you'd likely be unemployed now. Neon is dying again. It almostI sold off my complete shop when I had the chance. The neon sign business is truly dying. Even art neon isn't doing well. It will come back again but only as art. |
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"alek"
Manufacturing neons or nixies isn't cost-effective. It won't to be cost-effective in the future.
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I would "manufacture" max. 10...20 globe nixies per month.Almost nobody need it, and it's sufficient quantity for all interested in this. Hand- made nixies is labour-absorbing process, especially having current "tools". But I'm not going to change it in the nearest future. ----- Original Message -----
From: The Fool To: NEONIXIE-L@... Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 8:10 PM Subject: [NEONIXIE-L] Re: Homemade nixie - there's still hope --- In NEONIXIE-L@..., NeonJohn <jgd@...> wrote: > Well, you'd likely be unemployed now. Neon is dying again. It almost > died once in the 60s, the victim of the new plastic faced signs. This > time it is a combination of LEDs, over-regulation and too many shops > doing sloppy work that doesn't last long. > > I still have my shop but I haven't lit the fires in probably a year. I sold off my complete shop when I had the chance. The neon sign business is truly dying. Even art neon isn't doing well. It will come back again but only as art. |
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"cagamba"
--- In NEONIXIE-L@..., "alek" <aleksander.zawada@...> wrote:
Move along, folks.... :) |
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