Robert you might be able to bounce the tube with some padding around it and unshort the shorted segments. It's been done before. One trick is to tape it to a broom handle so you can force the entire tube against something like a stack of paper and get good force evenly distributed without breaking the tube. I've heard this has been successful more times than one. Often two segments one would overlap the other and get stuck touching it.
Bill On Friday, December 4, 2020 at 4:34:42 AM UTC-7 Robert G. Schaffrath wrote: > I got my first board from Poly Paks sometime in the late 1970’s. Probably > paid about $4 if I recall. One tube had shorted segments. I was about 15. > Then in 1979 I decided to build a clock and bought three boards from > Meshna Electronics. After I assembled that, I decided I would get spare > tubes that were sold as NOS from Meshna. Bought six of them which I still > have wrapped in bubble wrap. I have a total of seven in a carton along with > the six in the clock. Also I still have the defective one that still lights > up but has problem segments. Thinking of selling it as a novelty as it is > not really useful for a clock. > > On Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 11:46:10 PM UTC-5 nickja...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Yeah, that too. And register a whole lot of machine guns before May >> 1986, and file mining claims, then patent claims to get the land >> transferred to me before then too. And get someone to buy me a few B-17 and >> B-29s right after the war. And a few 62 Corvettes, and a Ferrari 250 or >> two... >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020, 6:33 PM Charles MacDonald <cm...@zeusprune.ca> >> wrote: >> >>> On 2020-12-03 4:45 p.m., gregebert wrote: >>> > Did anyone in this forum get their 7971's from PolyPaks a long time >>> ago >>> > (1970s/1980s) ? I recall they were inexpensive, and many were sold in >>> > pairs along with the socket/driver board after being scrapped from >>> > Lectrascan units. >>> >>> Good Old ETCO Electronics 464 McGill St. In Montreal. (store is long >>> gone) Only got a couple of boards, which had the fingers broken off. >>> and a bunch of the tubes, Forget the price but proably a couple of bucks >>> (CDN) each. If I could send a message back in time, I would tell my >>> former self to buy a few more, as well as some surplus 2A3, 6L6 and 6V6 >>> tubes. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Charles MacDonald VA3CPY Stittsville Ontario >>> cm...@zeusprune.ca Just Beyond the Fringe >>> No Microsoft Products were used in sending this e-mail. >>> >>> -- >>> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a614dcee-c540-e0f5-ca12-270f3c32a7d2%40zeusprune.ca >>> . >>> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/b99a9995-c854-4f22-82ef-1881480c9bf6n%40googlegroups.com.
