Now that was a good find!!!

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> On Aug 1, 2021, at 12:59, MichaelB <badni...@badnixie.com> wrote:
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> Not much to tell. I bought these 2 site unseen from a seller in Hong Kong and 
> as soon as I received them I ripped into them and snagged all the 5680's and 
> the sockets and tested them. Got lucky, all were good. Never even attempted 
> to power up the boxes up.This was 12 years ago before these tubes were out of 
> sight.  Here's some pics
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>> On Sunday, August 1, 2021 at 10:35:29 AM UTC-7 gregebert wrote:
>> Would love to hear the story behind this equipment, and any interior or 
>> power-up photos.
>> 
>>> On Sunday, August 1, 2021 at 7:09:32 AM UTC-7 MichaelB wrote:
>>> Here's another example of orange/red filtering done the easy way in front 
>>> of 5680's. These were old freq analyzers from an early Ebay purchase.
>>> 
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>>> 
>>>> On Saturday, July 31, 2021 at 3:36:28 AM UTC-7 Nick wrote:
>>>> Nope - it reduces the purple haze (!) around the cathodes due to the Hg 
>>>> doping, thus improving definition and legibility.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wednesday, 28 July 2021 at 00:49:12 UTC+1 gregebert wrote:
>>>>> I wonder if red-coated nixies were an attempt to entice manufacturers 
>>>>> from switching to 7-segment LEDs, which were mostly red at that time.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Monday, July 26, 2021 at 4:28:16 PM UTC-7 Pramanicin wrote:
>>>>>> I did something similar with some B7971 tubes (and a lot of other 
>>>>>> smaller ones). I used Vitrail Glass Paint, diluted with some mineral 
>>>>>> spirits (Paint:Spirits 4:1) and dipped the tubes and dry inverted. 
>>>>>> Turned out very well. Private message me and I can give you more 
>>>>>> details....
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 4:12 PM Audrey <tntm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I saw kainkalabs suggest glass paint
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 7:10 PM LB <liambart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi all, 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I picked up a ZIN-70 tube from Millclock a few weeks ago, and after 
>>>>>>>> powering it up, I thought it would look nice with a red coating like 
>>>>>>>> that on the Z568M. I assume the coating is some kind of lacquer, but 
>>>>>>>> I'm not completely sure. Anyone know what it is and how it can be 
>>>>>>>> applied?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks
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