Upside-down nixies

[newxito]

This year I would like to decorate the tree with a nixie clock. The idea is to put the tubes into 6 transparent balls. I’m looking for some upside-down nixies. Any suggestions?

[Paul Andrews]

Can't say for sure, but HP seemed to like upside down nixies: http://r.ebay.com/hwjqPi

[James Drosopoulos]

On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 1:59:30 PM UTC-5, newxito wrote:

This year I would like to decorate the tree with a nixie clock. The idea is to put the tubes into 6 transparent balls. I’m looking for some upside-down nixies. Any suggestions?

  Hi .. I have 7 Burroughs B5560 upside down tubes . You would have 6 and a spare . I was planning on posting these on Ebay . These are relatively rare Nixies . Email me if your interested and maybe we can work something out . I would rather someone from this group get them as they would appreciate them ..

[newxito]

Nice tubes, thanks James. But I am looking for tubes with larger digits. I think I will apply plan B and use 6 x Z5660M with a 3D printed socket to hide the pins and put the cables behind the tube. I hope it looks then like a candle in the crystal ball.

[James Drosopoulos]

On Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 8:33:02 AM UTC-5, newxito wrote:

Nice tubes, thanks James. But I am looking for tubes with larger digits. I think I will apply plan B and use 6 x Z5660M with a 3D printed socket to hide the pins and put the cables behind the tube. I hope it looks then like a candle in the crystal ball.

 Great .. Good luck with your project .. Some photos maybe when you're  done .. All the best .. Warm regards ..  Jim ..

[Jan Wuesten]

try NL904, sorry, I ran out of stock but maybe you are lucky.

Jan

2017-11-10 19:59 GMT+01:00 newxito <axt...@gmail.com>:

This year I would like to decorate the tree with a nixie clock. The idea is to put the tubes into 6 transparent balls. I’m looking for some upside-down nixies. Any suggestions?

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[Jan Wuesten]

Hey, whatever you do, please post photos, the idea is great, never seen a christmas tree with nixies decorated !!!!

Jan

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2017-11-10 19:59 GMT+01:00 newxito <axt...@gmail.com>:

This year I would like to decorate the tree with a nixie clock. The idea is to put the tubes into 6 transparent balls. I’m looking for some upside-down nixies. Any suggestions?

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[Terry S]

I wonder if Dalibor would consider making an upside down version of his tube? Seems like a relatively easy thing to do.

I have a vision of a rather exotic large clock that would require 4 inverted tubes.

Terry

On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 10:38:43 AM UTC-6, askjanfirst wrote:

try NL904, sorry, I ran out of stock but maybe you are lucky.

Jan

2017-11-10 19:59 GMT+01:00 newxito <axt...@gmail.com>:

This year I would like to decorate the tree with a nixie clock. The idea is to put the tubes into 6 transparent balls. I’m looking for some upside-down nixies. Any suggestions?

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[jb-electronics]

Great idea! I wonder what he will call it, since there was no official inverted Z568M...

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[Terry S]

!R|Z568M ??

[Terry S]

Let see, the 0 & 1 should work without modification. 2 could be an upside-down 5, and 5 could be an upside-down 2. 3 & 8 might work upside down but they could be ugly. 6 & 9 obviously would swap for each other. 

That just leaves 4 & 7 to re-tool.

Terry.

[gregebert]

Gotcha!   '3' would look like a garbled 'E'  so it would also need to be rebuilt.

[Nicholas Stock]

Would it? You can just flip it around....(he says doing some painful mental gymnastics...)

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Gotcha!   '3' would look like a garbled 'E'  so it would also need to be rebuilt.

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[Terry S]

Correct, just like the Russian 2, invert & flip to create a really bad 5. Or is it the other way around?

On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 3:07:45 PM UTC-6, Pramanicin wrote:

Would it? You can just flip it around....(he says doing some painful mental gymnastics...)

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Gotcha!   '3' would look like a garbled 'E'  so it would also need to be rebuilt.

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[Paul Andrews]

Eh? Am I missing something here? Just mount them all upside down. In your head imagine: pull the numbers off their mounts, rotate the tube 180 degrees, put the numbers back in their mounts. Now you have the pins at the top and all the numbers look just like they did before.

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[Nicholas Stock]

Don't think it's as straightforward as that as the contacts for each number are at the bottom of the digit...

http://dalibor.farny.cz/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IMG_0006.jpg

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Paul Andrews <judg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Eh? Am I missing something here? Just mount them all upside down. In your head imagine: pull the numbers off their mounts, rotate the tube 180 degrees, put the numbers back in their mounts. Now you have the pins at the top and all the numbers look just like they did before.

On Nov 14, 2017, at 4:20 PM, Terry S <tschw...@gmail.com> wrote:

Correct, just like the Russian 2, invert & flip to create a really bad 5. Or is it the other way around?

On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 3:07:45 PM UTC-6, Pramanicin wrote:

Would it? You can just flip it around....(he says doing some painful mental gymnastics...)

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:38 PM, gregebert <greg...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Gotcha!   '3' would look like a garbled 'E'  so it would also need to be rebuilt.

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[Tony Adams]

Each digit has a small 'tail' with a round pad for the spot weld. It might be possible to make a small batch with an alternative used to attach a wire to the 'top' of the digit, maybe very small thin eyelet terminals sandwiched in the stack under each digit.

On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 22:01:49 UTC, Pramanicin wrote:

Don't think it's as straightforward as that as the contacts for each number are at the bottom of the digit...

http://dalibor.farny.cz/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IMG_0006.jpg

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Paul Andrews <judg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Eh? Am I missing something here? Just mount them all upside down. In your head imagine: pull the numbers off their mounts, rotate the tube 180 degrees, put the numbers back in their mounts. Now you have the pins at the top and all the numbers look just like they did before.

On Nov 14, 2017, at 4:20 PM, Terry S <tschw...@gmail.com> wrote:

Correct, just like the Russian 2, invert & flip to create a really bad 5. Or is it the other way around?

On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 3:07:45 PM UTC-6, Pramanicin wrote:

Would it? You can just flip it around....(he says doing some painful mental gymnastics...)

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:38 PM, gregebert <greg...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Gotcha!   '3' would look like a garbled 'E'  so it would also need to be rebuilt.

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[Dalibor]

Upside down tubes will be available by beginning of next year. I already have parts for it (only the digits are different - welding tab on top vs. bottom).

Cheers!

Dalibor

[Terry S]

Very cool!

Terry