Mr. Purcell is kind of in a pickle in that if he introduces a Farney Z|568
it will be almost 5/8" taller than his other original 568s and there ends
up being a mismatch in the height of the numerals. Will look a bit funky.
I've thought about building a NixiSat with all Farney 568s ( beautiful
Thank You all for your help and Suggestions I am stuck on rock on a
street named Hard Place ... 4 out of the 6 tubes are good.and I dig the
non metallic base on the original tubes. I do give much respect to
Dalibor Farny almost like making Polaroid film from scratch! A
CAMAC and NIM are two entirely different animals.
NIM Crates are older, dating from soon after WWII. Their backplane just
provides power, though some custom and non-standard modules did transmit
signals between modules through the backplane.
CAMAC crates are more modern, and provide power
I've got one full one here myself. Ira.
On 6/23/2021 11:31 AM, 'John Rehwinkel' via neonixie-l wrote:
I did just buy another full NIM crate yesterday, all Ortec. Because
eight full ones and additional 150 modules just weren't enough I
guess. Man, I pity the fool who gets to dispose of my
I have yet to be sucked into the CAMAC madness!
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 1:31 PM 'John Rehwinkel' via neonixie-l <
neonixie-l@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> I did just buy another full NIM crate yesterday, all Ortec. Because eight
> full ones and additional 150 modules just weren't enough I guess.
> I did just buy another full NIM crate yesterday, all Ortec. Because eight
> full ones and additional 150 modules just weren't enough I guess. Man, I
> pity the fool who gets to dispose of my estate when I croak. Likely my
> nieces...
We used to call them CAMAC crates and NIM bins.
- John
Oo I think I've heard of those, very cool
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> It would either inspire me to move on one or more of my crazy,
overly-ambitious ideas or realize I just don't have time to do everything
before I die...
Too real...
What are NIMs?
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 1:42 PM Nick Andrews wrote:
> It's so tempting to buy one of his tubes just because...
It's so tempting to buy one of his tubes just because... It would either
inspire me to move on one or more of my crazy, overly-ambitious ideas or
realize I just don't have time to do everything before I die...
I did just buy another full NIM crate yesterday, all Ortec. Because eight
full ones
You probably know this already, but you can also buy Z568 tubes. The red
coating is easily removed (hot soapy water, or isopropyl alcohol). You
could also consider buying a complete set of R|Z568M from Dalibor Farny,
though I’m not sure how they would look in the clock or whether they would
Thank you so much… Now that I’m going through the various steps of.
grieving …acceptance..And preparing to fork out cash… I have turned to good
old eBay and I’m just not sure which of the players over in eastern bloc
countries are Reputable. I was already to push the buy button and I decided
Wow... you poor man, my condolences...
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 5:20 PM Nick Andrews wrote:
> I'm sure someone here can recommend a good recipe for cat tacos...
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:54 PM Francis Purcell
> wrote:
>
>> Hello from a longtime lurker….
>>
>> The point first…I need 2 clear
I'm sure someone here can recommend a good recipe for cat tacos...
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 11:54 PM Francis Purcell
wrote:
> Hello from a longtime lurker….
>
> The point first…I need 2 clear 568(0) tubes :-(
>
> The back story….Ages ago in the 70s when I was in my teens I built a very
>
Hello from a longtime lurker….
The point first…I need 2 clear 568(0) tubes :-(
The back story….Ages ago in the 70s when I was in my teens I built a very
dangerous small 4 tube nixie clock.. using modified guts from an old
pinball machine and an electric clock motor from an old range. As the
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