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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : For all who want to make their own Nixie
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| Frank N. Furter Guru  Joined: 28/05/2012 Location: GermanyPosts: 949 |
The Art of Making a Nixie Tube Frank |
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CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2170 |
very interesting. |
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| PicFan Senior Member  Joined: 18/03/2014 Location: AustriaPosts: 133 |
SUPER ! Danke ! Wolfgang |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5089 |
At 145 USD each...… Yeah, I saw it was a lot of work..... PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Paul_L Guru Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
The history of industrialization is the history of the elimination of the most difficult trades. Nixie assembly is a recently deprecated art. The highest form of woodworking art was the fabrication of steel rimmed wagon wheels. This art was deprecated about 1912 by the Budd Wheel Company of Philadelphia when they figured out how to stamp a wheel out of sheet steel and by Harvey Firestone figuring out how to vulcanize rubber, form a tube and tire, and allow cars to ride on air. THE ART OF MAKING A HEAVY WOODEN WAGON WHEEL Budd and Firestone put an enormous number of wood workers out of business. Paul in NY |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3378 |
Wow. Amazing work, Paul. Glad I didn't have to earn my living doing that. The bits I manipulated in my working days fit much less laboriously into bytes than those spokes did in the wheel hub. Just down the road a quarter mile from me (here in Milton, Nova Scotia), there's a blacksmith shop museum--shop was in use until the 50s or 60s. Among the treasures there is a huge rig for immobilizing an ox for shoeing. I guess they weren't quite as docile as horses seem to be in the photos and paintings you see. A bull in a china shop is nothing compared to an unhappy ox in a building with a roaring fire. PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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| Paul_L Guru Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
Thanks for looking Lance. I actually put a new tire (iron band) on a wooden wheel once back in 1954. I spent a good percentage of my time growing up on my Uncle Harry's dairy farm in Walton NY back during WWII. It was apparent to Uncle Harry, back in the late 1930s, that a big kerfuffle was developing with Germany and Japan. He knew that farmers would get all the gasoline they needed, but that once tractors and other machinery broke down it was not likely that repair parts would be available. He started breeding Percheron horses in 1937. By the time the festivities erupted he had 16 fully trained adult Percherons on the place. I drove them, trained them, fed them, and shoed them. Shoeing them was no problem at all, they were mostly very docile and amenable. I also milked his 95 Holstein cows. With that many big horses he wound up doing a lot of the field work for neighboring farms with broken machinery. It was great fun. But I never tried to shoe an ox. For that matter I never even saw an ox in person. I probably didn't miss much. 16 Percherons hitched together pulling a lumber wagon with 8 foot diameter wheels was a pretty impressive sight. Paul in NY |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3378 |
Paul--Oxen were very much in use here in the lumber work along the Mersey River in Nova Scotia, and "ox pull" competitions are part of fall festivities here, with teams coming from Maine and even further afield in the U.S. There is a 6-foot rock wall along the riverside of my lot. I imagine the rocks were pulled there by oxen, and the yard filled in to make a level spot. There were 6 saw mills at the falls a quarter-mile below my house. Upon reflection, I'd guess that the ox shoeing frame down the road is only inside the museum to protect it from the weather. When in use, I expect it was outside. Can't imagine bringing an ox inside that building--and then backing it out when done. PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Fascinating. Who would have thought there would be so much work involved. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Paul_L Guru Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
People either don't know how difficult it was to do simple jobs in years past, or they did once know but have forgotten. Our present relatively easy life is the direct result of the increased efficiency in all productive processes achieved by a lot of very intelligent people in the past. It's a very good idea for everyone to take a half hour every once in a while to watch someone build a wooden wheel with an iron tire, or shoe an ox, or do the laundry with a washing machine with a wringer on top, or even with a washing board. Then we can go back to complaining that the remote control for the garage door doesn't have enough range. Paul in NY |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Quite. Completely agree with that, Paul.  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2170 |
+1 so true |
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