Tube making supplies

[NeonJohn]

Hey guys,

This came across the Neon-l list.

http://electrontubestore.com/

They sell components for people who make their own tubes. I've made
some specialty tubes such as X-ray tubes and BF3 neutron detection tubes
but I had no idea there were enough others to support a business.

Anyway, this should be useful for Nixie tube makers.

John

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[chuck richards]

Thanks for posting that John! I have checked their
site a few times before, and it looks like they've
now added many more items.

By the way, have you put any more of the 4-wheeled
boom boxes out of commission lately? Always interested
to hear more about documented kills.

Chuck

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[NeonJohn]

On 01/04/2014 10:01 AM, chuck richards wrote:
> Thanks for posting that John! I have checked their
> site a few times before, and it looks like they've
> now added many more items.

You're welcome.

>
> By the way, have you put any more of the 4-wheeled
> boom boxes out of commission lately? Always interested
> to hear more about documented kills.

Unfortunately, no. For those just now tuning in, what Chuck is
referring to is an EMP weapon I built using 4 microwave oven magnetrons,
a waveguide and feed horn and a high voltage capacitor discharge pulsed
power supply. It was designed to kill the stereo in a car that drove
past my restaurant every day with the boom boom stereo turned up loud
enough that it vibrated stuff off the shelves in the dining room.

It was very effective. One shot, one kill. I pressed the button from
my roof-mounted perch where I could aim the horn down through his
passenger side window and... Nothing. Silence. Peace. Stalled
engine. The engine restarted but the stereo was down for the count.

Anyway, between the time I moved up here to Tellico and the time I
started moving my shop and lab, my health deteriorated to the point that
I was about 6 months into the move, about half done when scrappers broke
into the building and stole everything. My neon shop, the electronics
lab, even the copper wiring in the walls. All gone.

I've built a new (much smaller) lab in a spare bedroom where I design
induction heaters (http://www.fluxeon.com). I'm saving my money to put
a prefab building on my adjacent lot and that will be for the neon and
glass lab. Maybe about next fall.

I had a friend donate almost a complete neon shop to the effort so the
equipment is packed in boxes in the basement, awaiting the new building.

The health problem turned out to be a collapsed lung and paralyzed
diaphragm caused by a bulging disk at C5. That's where the nerves that
drive the left diaphragm muscle exit the spine. I'm strapped to an
oxygen concentrator but other than that, OK.

Speaking of oxygen concentrators, I had 5 of them in my neon shop. 4
got stolen. I used them to enrich the air going to my gas/air fires.
That made the fires hot enough to work Pyrex without having to have a
pure oxygen source. Since they sell used for $2-300 and typically make
5 liters per minute of 90% oxygen, that's a very cheap method of hotting
up your glassworking fires.

[Tidak Ada]

Unfortunately a very expensive shop.

Many things are much cheaper to get if you know the Hong Kong business where also tube industries bought their stuff.
However, prices for some items rose up to five times last two years.
An example: I got some CRT cathodes at a closing factory. The CEO there told me they could buy them for about $ 2.50 each in quantities, but the price has been rosen to €12.50 now days. The main reason to close his plant!

eric

[Phill S]

Hi Neon, any chance you could supply a circuit for this evil device ?

I have a similar problem.

There is a guy who drives down my street in a rural area at night with his doof doof machine on full doof.