Terry- I wouldn't be surprised if they were re-dated. 1985 seemed too recent, as LEDs & VFDs were churned-out like jelly beans at that time. Tons of nixies from 1960's, some from 1970's. Mine tested-out fine, no signs of darkening, no blue dots, etc. Definitely new-in-box, but questionable if they were actually manufactured in 1985.
Chuck - The lot of 6 was 100 USD thru buy-it-now. I saw some on auction; I dont see these very often so I got greedy and snagged them for spares. My big clock uses 15 of them, and after almost 4 years I've had 1 failure plus 2 that are showing some signs of wear (1 is darkening, 1 is getting dimmer). -- 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/e714204c-6480-4b1f-801d-6c426b0da0f6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
