Anyone ever thought of fixing the tubes? I think the hardest part is the
seal between the pins and the glass, and if that part was still intact
(which in many cases it is, because it is the most stable glass part of
the tube), wouldn't it be possible to add a new "cap" to the tube? I.e.
some glass cylinder, or a really large test tube ;-) with a small outlet
at the back through which the tube's vacuum could be generated and then
also be filled with your Neon / Argon mixture.
Sadly, I do not have the equipment, but I know there are several people
on this list who might be able to do that. Maybe not the gas / vacuum
part, but the general glassworks. In Germany we have several extremly
good glass workers who create Geissler tubes. The vacuum / gas part is a
piece of cake for them, but sadly, they are reluctant to play around
with the first glass repair.
I have another sad story: a broken CD47 :-((( I got it for 50EUR,
though, and if I ever learn glassworks, I will sure try to fix it.
What do you guys think?
Jens
Am 25.06.2011 08:22, schrieb Nick:
On Jun 24, 7:59 pm, Wayne de Geere III<wa...@degeere.com> wrote:
This story is breaking my heart. For that sort of breakage, it would have made
sense to fly out there and pack them up yourselves. I have to admit, the mea
culpas i carry with me would make grown men cry, I know how this feels.
At the time they were pretty cheap - I live in the UK, it would never
have made sense to go there personally.
I did try to get him to pack them properly, but he never did - just
chucked another few in to cover the losses.
The newspaper in the photo is all the "packing" they had - it the very
same paper they were wrapped in when originally stored in the 1970s
and were still in when he discovered the cache in, I believe, a New
York warehouse. ISTR there were a fewf thousand of them. When shipping
them to us they came in just that sheet of 1970s newspaper - that's
all.
As far as we know he was the only person to have commercial quantities
of these tube - they were all used, and no one has yet seen a genuine
NOS 7971 - lots that claim to be, but none verified. SO this cache
seems to have been the mother lode.
Main problem was that he wasn't a tube guy - he dealt in old coins and
really really didn't want the hassle of wrapping them individually and
shipping them properly. Several of us tried to reason with him, but to
no avail.
Ah. Well. Its done now...
Nick
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