> > Well, I finally noticed that Surplus Sales of Nebraska had a bucket-load of > NL4998 tubes. So I bought them. I keep getting requests for 4 digit Nixie > watches, and these tubes are the best candidates for making a Metro: Last > Light style watch. It seems to be in some demand. > > Curiously, four of these tubes almost fit in the diameter of my round 2-digit > Nixie watch. > > The trick will be to make it have an acceptable thickness. The watch in the > video game is imaginary, so its thickness is unknown. My round watch is .80" > thick. The 4998 tubes are .81" tall not including the leads. I much prefer > socketing tubes rather than soldering them in, so a very low profile socket > is on my list of things to find. > > Thoughts?
I'd probably go with flush-mount socket pins like Tektronix used to use to mount ICs and transistors. There's a picture here: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115309/what-is-flush-mount-socket-in-this-40yr-old-tek-scope <http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115309/what-is-flush-mount-socket-in-this-40yr-old-tek-scope> They're a specialty part, but they're still made. It's FCI's "Minisert" line. http://portal.fciconnect.com/Comergent//fci/drawing/75540.pdf <http://portal.fciconnect.com/Comergent//fci/drawing/75540.pdf> - John -- 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/C32AEDC3-A169-4F61-9ADC-0477D30259BA%40mac.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
