Really lovely Nick. Impressive dovetailing. I am sure Minnie loves it and you in equal measure. I am not sure she is quite so keen about the Quad electrostatics I dumped in your kitchen. Is there any room left in your kitchen for food or cooking? I'd suggest with all those volts you don't put the neon M on top of the fish tank and anyway that is where the cat sits.
Thanks for all your work behind the scenes in recent years, keeping this group under control, John S On 26 Dec 2014, at 14:05, Nick wrote: > Small present I made for SWMBO using reclaimed items - a neon letter from the > front of a theatre (about 6" tall), some offcuts of an oak floor we had laid > 9 years ago, bits and pieces from the workshop... some specialised neon bits > - the silicone covers for the electrodes and the special latex "blocking > paint" to conceal the electrodes themselves, all bolts are hex-headed to > prevent curious children opening it (2000V inside) - cable clamp was stolen > from an old light fitting. Oak was thicknessed down from 20mm to to 14mm and > the joints cut, backing timber was 4mm thick so 4.8mm x 5mm deep groove set > round inside of box (176mm x 210mm internal), Forstner bits used to cut 20mm > holes for tube electrodes, lots of use of router table, table saw, > planer-thicknesser etc. > > Mounting/back panel for the neon was very rare timber sourced from > [url=http://www.exotichardwoods.co.uk/]Timberline in Tonbridge[/url] - lovely > bit of wood - they sell 100s of rare (legal) wood for turning, musical > instrument manufacture & repair etc. Amazing place. Absolutely amazing... > > Finished on Xmas Eve... still to do: small uP to PWM-modulate the HV to dim > the tube a bit - bearing in mind it was originally an outdoor display sign > designed to be read from 50ft away, its a tad bright for the kitchen, so I > wil change the standard electronic transformer I'm currently (!) using for a > PWM version when it arrives from the USA - a small uP, or even just a PWM > 555-based design, will control brightness nicely. > > Luckily, SWMBO likes neon and absolutely loved the sign... many thanks (as > always) to John Smout who gave me the idea for "a letter in a box"... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/e9073b49-6886-4529-a62c-61211f2e2384%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > <2014-12-26 13.34.25.jpg><2014-12-24 15.40.36.jpg><2014-12-23 > 18.12.16.jpg><2014-12-18 13.22.26.jpg> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/8B63B882-938E-45DF-B9E6-84378856FE9D%40jsdesign.co.uk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
