Bringing Nixie tubes back to life

Re:Bringing Nixie tubes back to life by ChuckMcM on Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:52AM (#12310986)

Fun stuff, at $145/tube its a bit more than they were originally but its nice to know there is a source if you need one.

I really enjoyed his journey of discovery though, I think if he put it into book form he could self publish on Amazon or some similar publisher and people would be able to support his effort without such a big buy in cost :-).

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Re:Bringing Nixie tubes back to life by steve19 on Thursday August 18, 2016 @04:47AM (#12311164)

But cheaper than the available stock of the tube it replaces, and more attractive with that nice aluminum base.

Old Z5680M / Z568M tubes of dubious quality are selling on EBay for $200+.

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Re:Bringing Nixie tubes back to life by Artlav on Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:40AM (#12311499)

I wonder who would buy them at such ridiculous prices. Most NOS nixies are in the $0.5 to $5 range, excluding delivery costs. Only exceptions are a few weird and rare ones.

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Re:Bringing Nixie tubes back to life by theophrastus on Thursday August 18, 2016 @12:19PM (#12313787)

albeit at 125mm height that's a relatively gigantic nixie tube as compared to those in the old spectrophotometer in my grad school lab.

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