Very cool. But expensive! I aspire (possibly foolishly) to attempt such experiments some day, once I get my high vacuum station set up for lasers, neon, plasma, fusor, etc.
If I were to buy a spool of the Dumet wire, would anyone like to get some of the wire to play with to help share the cost a bit? On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 9:12 PM Charles MacDonald <cm...@zeusprune.ca> wrote: > On 2022-12-26 15:26, Miles Thatch wrote: > > 1) I was watching some nixie production videos and a question came up. > > Is tungsten wire used because this metal offers the most appropriate > > seal with glass? One of the videos where a nixie was made in a garage > > showed that tungstan turns a coppery color when, as commented, properly > > seals with the glass. > > Vacuum tubes often used DUMET wire as it had the same cofeficent of > expansion as the Glass used to make the seals. https://www.dumet.net/ > > their are literally BOOKS on the subject of Glass to metal sealing > depending on Power levels and temperatures involved. > > > -- > 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4b240fb9-8489-e597-f743-99884ff52760%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/CAJD4P-h9UrLmMaOYzsrp_NRdcpDk8ruqc3WRgH%3DR4MRnSTw7Ow%40mail.gmail.com.
