Well close to a year ago I started my version of a Michael Barile SlingBlade clock using PV Electronics R568 Clock kit. Jeff Walton built a NWTS from Manual Azevedo (sorry for his lost) for me.
Everything went well and I have enjoyed the clock immensely including the MOD-SIX_Gen V Michael Barile so generously built for me. I wanted to get Dalibor to send me a couple of his colons unassembled so I could try to retrofit it to the PV round PCB board's Pete V used in his kits. Well as of today things are looking good.. Dalibor has sent me the colons and a few tubes that showed some leakage. He is unbelievable when it comes to customer service and helping a guy out even without using his main Zen PC board. I really wanted to use the ZEN board but the 3" more in length and narrowness just did not fit in the design of the SlingBlade . Pete V also helped by providing some prints of the main R568 PC board as what traces to cut if I would need to add the two 66K 1/4W metal film resistors on the cathode side of the colon's to make it work. After E-mailing Dalibor quite a few times I think I will be able to fit the resistors in the colon base. If so this will be an easier mod to do as I just have to replace R8,R9,R10,R11 270K resistors with some wire jumpers and plug in the new modified colons. With my current colons I made, I used a friction fit sleeve out of a nylon spacer about .250 high that I used to hold the round PCB colon tight to the black colon base as the flange is on the bottom of the colon base. I will wrap a few layer of cellophane tape around the base of the colon tube glass for a friction fit. I will solder the leads to the round PCB colon board having the nylon spacer go through the leads before soldering. I will wrap the colon leads one turn around a pencil before soldering so I have enough length to push down the spacer over the round PCB and have it bottom out on the colon base using a flat blade screwdriver. Then I will push the colon glass down into the base about .250 and twist slightly to align the colon dots to the front. If anyone has a better idea let me know before the colon's arrive. Thanks everyone for making this dream possible. > -- 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/3c3ba60f-1edd-4e29-93e9-0dbe164503c9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
