I wonder what one of these would look like using EL wire? I mean actual neon can't be beat! And this looks AMAZING, but obviously us mere mortals don't have access to all that glass "processing" equipment or those types of HV power supplies. :)
Hello Ron, I used to build custom UV steriliser tubes in the 80s for a big pharmaceutical Co and also display neon tubes (just for fun), for myself and friends but never once did I think of doing this! What a wonderful project! I still have all the equipment and now I have a new project. Your videos never cease to amaze! Great work as always, complements Chris UK.
Hello Mr. Glasslinger, I really love your hobby - these vintage radios and, of course, making your tubes. it's just a wonderful miracle! I am from Ukraine, formerly the USSR, unfortunately, I do not have a home and a workshop, only one two-room apartment. and all experiments are carried out on a small balcony. but listening and watching your videos, I admire you and forget about all my problems. thank you very much!
These video's shure are interesting as hell, also it is humbling to see how easy technologies like LEDs ans ICs have made work for electronics engineers when comparing it to the effort it took 50 years ago to achieve the same goal.
Second time I've watched your video just to take in the details. I have to say you never cease to amaze and astound. Such skill and talent. I absolutely love your channel and look forward to any new videos. Thanks 😊 Quick edit to say... I have a small collection of vacuum tubes and, to me, they are works of art, like sculptures. Particularly the large pentodes which I think we're used in either early radar sets or transmitters. Beautiful things.
How can anyone thumb this down. Ron, you are to glasswork/experimentation what R. Feynmann was to physics. Your pure joy of making thigs, finding things out, playing with stuff at the same time pushing towards some worthwhile end is unparalleled. Thank you for recording this for us. You are a great person in my corner of the world.
I feel if he dressed normal he might draw a larger audience, but I guess he can what makes him happy. But alot of people into these kinds of things don't really care for CD men
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 Most people are not concerned with clothing. I don't advertise my channel so it doesn't get the youtube attention it would get if I used one of the services the people with millions of views use.
You just reinvented the nixie tube! Good idea using glass tubes in the shape of numbers. That's amazing. I never took my eyes off my screen, I was really involved with this build. The clock will be super cool, the only one in existance!
Ron is something special! His knowledge and expertise is astounding! A real showman too! He's just awesome in every way! 👍 He deserves way more subscribers. Respect.
That's absolutely brilliant. Never would have thought to use separate tubes for each number instead of a wire inside a tube - saves a hell of a lot of trouble and glows far brighter!
Ruddy hell Ron, that was a labour of love, and a great example of what you can achieve with the right commitment. Also highlights lots of old skills which are slowly disappearing.. great looking device.
As usual, absolutely brilliant! Some thing I learned a while ago and it seems nobody knows: for removing hot glue, some alcohol often makes it an easier job than heat, it makes the glue almost magically stop sticking to what it's stuck to.
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 . haha... all good. if it's not funny it's not truth. YT do censor ... i use to run a flat earth channel. they took it down.
@@imaginarypoint you want proof the earth is not flat, thats quick and to the point and you can visually see? Barrow Alaska(its got some crazy name now) in the summer has over 2 months of daylight, 2 months straight of the sun spinning in circles above your head where you can actually see it. While this is going on places like Australia and Brazil on the opposite side of the earth gets regular light cycles. 100% impossible on a flat earth with a spotlight sun, and can be proven easily by just going past a certain latitude in Alaska... You can see days of sunlight before you get to the furthest point north, its just most dramatic in barrow.
@@imaginarypoint Flat earth was pushed by a mainstream puppet, B.O.B. and thats a very large red flag. It was an agenda to muddy the waters of conspiracy, so people can't find the true ones and sleepers associate all conspiracy with FE
You rely deserve more than just a congratulation. The knowledge you have in several disciplines make you superior to many people. Besides you are very tenacious because when you find some trouble you keep fighting til it is solved. all those characteristics make you very special. CONGRATULATIONS.
A lot of heart in this one Ron. Brilliant in so many ways. Your perseverance is inspiring. Excellent educator. And I love fire and energized gases. Basically a perfect video. Thank you.
Wow, great project! Your videos encompass everything that I am interested in. I have always found glass to be a fascinating material in so many ways, but to be able to build it into electronic devices....that's like an ice cream sundae with a WHOLE JAR of cherries on top! Thank you for the great content and thank you for sharing your knowledge. It's people like you that inspire others to become...well, people like you! These skills are still relevant and they must not be lost.
So much time, effort and skill. Definitely the end result is "slicker than snot on a doorknob"😂. Thanks so much for sharing it was 2 hours of fascinating joy watching you work
Thank you so much for making these videos, I watch them all, thoroughly enjoy them and learn so much. You have a rare combination of technical and artistic skill.
Very cool, i'm a relatively young guy (in my 20s), and I've only recently started understanding how viable old tech was and that perhaps progress doesn't always mean tossing aside what came before us. There's properties these tubes have that transistors could never hope to replicate
@@chrisa2735-h3z Yeah going through an EE program these sort of things are never brought up, usually tubes are just portrayed as inferior transistors that were made completely obsolete, but the more you start learning about the very interesting things you can do the more you realize this how far from true them being obsolete is.
Thank you for these amazing projects. You are truly a renaissance person. The depth of your knowledge and the practical skills are inspiring. I hope to continue to learn and evolve as you have done. Keep up the great work! Oh, and I love your cat. As a cat person, we sometimes get left out. I can only hope to have a workshop like yours one day.
I built a nixie clock back in the 70s with 74 series ICs so was keen to see how you were going to make your nixie. I think you have made a really good looking nixie...well done, Ron. 8-)
Hi Ron, fascinating video as usual! I streamed it to our TV so Donna could watch it too. She said to tell you she was really impressed, and she didn’t even understand it! The glass work was a joy to watch, but you really got me when you got to the electronics. I never would’ve considered the possibility of capacitive coupling of the tubes at high frequencies, and I thought that switching the HV power supply and the “ground” side of the tubes at the same time to minimize arcing was brilliant. You’ve obviously done this before 😉
Hi Ron your tech friend Dave here watched your amazing video you certainly are a very talented man best in the field I always enjoy watching your videos you can learn from watching you very good at what you do Ron I enjoyed seeing your cat in the video a little bit got to work on an old zenith myself this weekend keep sending the videos I really enjoy watching them I would have to say Ron you're the best in the field take care of yourself continue to wear a mask and may God bless you and be with you thank you
I'm lucky with the covid crap. I had it March of last year and it was like a bad cold for a couple days, then was gone. People that are getting it are in poor health. (most Americans!)
Thanks for that tutorial on fixing that turbo pump a while back. Ended up replacing the mercury diffusion pump with the turbo and ressurecting a joel electron microscope for a college i went to. 🤓😁❤
Wow Ron, I mean just Wow! My mind is blown, just like your neon tubes. Just amazing sir, you are an amazing artist and your intelligence is on such a higher level than the rest of us. Fantastic video!
You've got guts working with voltages that high! I did something similar imitating Nixies in a large scale with acrylic rods and LEDs. Each one about 4 inches tall. Very impressed with this video!
You could have used a slayer exciter, Marx generates or simply Diode capacitor 8x voltage multiplier, it would have saved a lot of effort on the power supply side. The tube is gigantic and as per my background reading, it is the worlds largest Nixie. Although it is not a true Nixie but still awesome. The best part is your patience and dedication. You redo the broken stuff, and here we are who get pissed if a single solder joint is broken. Cheers✨✨✨
Normally with a neon tube you use premade ends, that contain both the hollow electrode cup, the glass fed through and a getter inside the hollow cup, but fitting those on this size tube in the space available would be very hard, they are big, around 5/8 in diameter and 2in long. I am sure if Ron found a box or two of them he would use them, probably stripping them to make his own tubes, as they do come with a decent length of lead and a good seal, along with each being designed as evacuation port as well. The hollow cup design makes the electrode end large, so it lasts a long time, and the hollow cup with the ceramic lip means the sputtered electrode material is deposited mostly back on the cup, not on the glass. Problem with the small tubes is fitting a getter, no room unless you put on a special getter section in an unlit section, and then paint it matt black with a mask to not have it visible.
I've had an interest in glass blowing since ever I saw a glass blower in action as a child. Thank you so much for sparing your experience. You meatnioned the problem with the 1/8" tubing closing up. I was wondering, would it be possible to keep the 1/8" tube open while it is heated if you had one end connected to a variable output aquarium pump, perhaps warming the air using a candle over a brass tube and using a heat tolerant type of plastic tubing ? Or is the tubing so thin that even that little of air pressure would cause the tube to form a globe?
Couldn't you run the tungsten hot for a while to use it as a getter to get some of the extra air out? You could also bake the glass in the oven for an hour to outgas the water that is soaked into the surface.
Hello! What is your vacuum system? I'd like to start with making some tubes, but I don't know what type of instrument I need. Can you just say models of your instrument? Thanks, good luck!
The web host increased my hosting cost to $450 a year. I was only getting a few hits a week so I dropped the site. Sorry. I'm looking into a lower cost host now.
Yep, EVERYTHING's bigger in Texas! This is the Saturn 5 of Nixie tubes! A genuine "Ron special build" - if ever there was one - with, for the non-Americans, a 20.3 X 50.8 cm tube, and ~34cm high numbers. @1:26:27 I'm guessing "that's slicker than snot on a doorknob" is Texan for "how serendipitous"! :)
Ron I am really amazed with your glass working skills. But I wonder if you could still have used the small tubing by drilling a hole in the side to make the T-junction before welding on the evacuation stem?
That is one of the coolest damn things that I have ever seen. Very imaginative. My best compliments to you. A really great video like this is much appreciated. Thank you.
Quite interesting, I was wondering how you would do it with such a thin glass bulb and the neon tube idea is genius, not technically a nixie tube but super cool either way
Very interesting video. Thumbs up :) What kind of pump do you use to get such a low pressure? I tried to find a matching diffusor pump but had no real luck.
@@glasslinger you can often turn off WB. Anyway, the least of my worries is how spectacular / dramatic your projects appear on video. Just glad you're well and doing what you and your audience / students enjoy! Thanks again!
Looks great. I love the look of thin cold cathode tubes. So sharp and bright.
Hello, sir. I enjoy your videos very much as well.
I wonder what one of these would look like using EL wire? I mean actual neon can't be beat! And this looks AMAZING, but obviously us mere mortals don't have access to all that glass "processing" equipment or those types of HV power supplies. :)
Funny seeing you here Clive. I love when channels I'm subscribed to show up on the more obscure channels I view.
I got a few from old All in One printers but they are just white.
Clive, can you start wearing a dress too please?
Hello Ron, I used to build custom UV steriliser tubes in the 80s for a big pharmaceutical Co and also display neon tubes (just for fun), for myself and friends but never once did I think of doing this! What a wonderful project! I still have all the equipment and now I have a new project. Your videos never cease to amaze! Great work as always, complements Chris UK.
GREAT! Good luck on it! Be sure to put it on video!
Please video it!
Oh please, make a vídeo.
Glass blowing, vacuum systems, DIY HV relays and circuit design, and above all, very creative.. Totally underrated channel. Thank you.
Hello Mr. Glasslinger, I really love your hobby - these vintage radios and, of course, making your tubes. it's just a wonderful miracle! I am from Ukraine, formerly the USSR, unfortunately, I do not have a home and a workshop, only one two-room apartment. and all experiments are carried out on a small balcony. but listening and watching your videos, I admire you and forget about all my problems. thank you very much!
What a lovely, polite and respectful message! I'm sure Mr. Glasslinger appreciates it!
He is just incredible, isn't he.
All the best to you.
These video's shure are interesting as hell, also it is humbling to see how easy technologies like LEDs ans ICs have made work for electronics engineers when comparing it to the effort it took 50 years ago to achieve the same goal.
Second time I've watched your video just to take in the details. I have to say you never cease to amaze and astound. Such skill and talent.
I absolutely love your channel and look forward to any new videos.
Thanks 😊
Quick edit to say... I have a small collection of vacuum tubes and, to me, they are works of art, like sculptures. Particularly the large pentodes which I think we're used in either early radar sets or transmitters. Beautiful things.
How can anyone thumb this down. Ron, you are to glasswork/experimentation what R. Feynmann was to physics. Your pure joy of making thigs, finding things out, playing with stuff at the same time pushing towards some worthwhile end is unparalleled. Thank you for recording this for us. You are a great person in my corner of the world.
most underrated youtube channel that i know.
I feel if he dressed normal he might draw a larger audience, but I guess he can what makes him happy.
But alot of people into these kinds of things don't really care for CD men
Well, If you are here to see the making of a nixie tube, i think that the nixie tube apearence is the one that maters
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 Most people are not concerned with clothing. I don't advertise my channel so it doesn't get the youtube attention it would get if I used one of the services the people with millions of views use.
I think it’s part of the charm of TH-cam. People can make their show how they want.
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 yeah, a lot of people people see the tip of your finger when you point to the moon.
I really admire your ability to absorb a setback and then calmly prevail.
You just reinvented the nixie tube! Good idea using glass tubes in the shape of numbers. That's amazing. I never took my eyes off my screen, I was really involved with this build. The clock will be super cool, the only one in existance!
Ron is something special! His knowledge and expertise is astounding! A real showman too! He's just awesome in every way! 👍 He deserves way more subscribers. Respect.
That's absolutely brilliant. Never would have thought to use separate tubes for each number instead of a wire inside a tube - saves a hell of a lot of trouble and glows far brighter!
Glasswork has always fascinated me, but long, vacuum sealed tubes give me the heebies! Fantastic work!
You answered so many of my questions about filling discharge tubes with gas. I love learning from your videos. Thanks Ron!
Ruddy hell Ron, that was a labour of love, and a great example of what you can achieve with the right commitment. Also highlights lots of old skills which are slowly disappearing.. great looking device.
It's always a treat to see someone who mastered his work do a unique project like this.
As usual, absolutely brilliant! Some thing I learned a while ago and it seems nobody knows: for removing hot glue, some alcohol often makes it an easier job than heat, it makes the glue almost magically stop sticking to what it's stuck to.
Aha 🤔
I recently discovered that trick on Mr. Carlson's Lab. Very handy!
Yes, hand sanitiser works well to undo it, and leaves almost no residue on either surface as well.
wires at bottom might look better black, but awesome job and what a great clock it would make I would love it in my house anytime, thanks for sharing.
Beautiful project!!! All your digits are so even in color and intensity. Thanks for going into the details of your driver circuit.
Don't let Fran from Franlab see it. She will rip your arms off to get hold of that. A master of glass at work, love it.
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 lol... careful there... you might get censored again.
@@imaginarypoint I don't mean that in a rude way, maybe it can be taken that way though?
Yeah I might wanna delete that lol
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 . haha... all good. if it's not funny it's not truth.
YT do censor ... i use to run a flat earth channel. they took it down.
@@imaginarypoint you want proof the earth is not flat, thats quick and to the point and you can visually see?
Barrow Alaska(its got some crazy name now) in the summer has over 2 months of daylight, 2 months straight of the sun spinning in circles above your head where you can actually see it.
While this is going on places like Australia and Brazil on the opposite side of the earth gets regular light cycles.
100% impossible on a flat earth with a spotlight sun, and can be proven easily by just going past a certain latitude in Alaska...
You can see days of sunlight before you get to the furthest point north, its just most dramatic in barrow.
@@imaginarypoint Flat earth was pushed by a mainstream puppet, B.O.B. and thats a very large red flag.
It was an agenda to muddy the waters of conspiracy, so people can't find the true ones and sleepers associate all conspiracy with FE
You rely deserve more than just a congratulation. The knowledge you have in several disciplines make you superior to many people. Besides you are very tenacious because when you find some trouble you keep fighting til it is solved. all those characteristics make you very special. CONGRATULATIONS.
Mad genius, excellent work as usual. So much respect for your talents
A lot of heart in this one Ron. Brilliant in so many ways. Your perseverance is inspiring. Excellent educator. And I love fire and energized gases. Basically a perfect video. Thank you.
I love when the you tube recommendations actually work and give me a video i want to watch.
Pure genius. I don't know how you do it Ron. Your knowhow and patience is off the scale. Thanks
Cool tube. Your work is amazing! Thanks for showing it to us.
Wow, great project! Your videos encompass everything that I am interested in. I have always found glass to be a fascinating material in so many ways, but to be able to build it into electronic devices....that's like an ice cream sundae with a WHOLE JAR of cherries on top! Thank you for the great content and thank you for sharing your knowledge. It's people like you that inspire others to become...well, people like you! These skills are still relevant and they must not be lost.
This video makes you a bonified national treasure! Much more entertaining than anything on the networks, too.
That is one awesome giant Nixie tube. Franlab needs to see this!
So much time, effort and skill. Definitely the end result is "slicker than snot on a doorknob"😂. Thanks so much for sharing it was 2 hours of fascinating joy watching you work
Thank you so much for making these videos, I watch them all, thoroughly enjoy them and learn so much. You have a rare combination of technical and artistic skill.
Good to know you still doing your work 👍👍
Very cool, i'm a relatively young guy (in my 20s), and I've only recently started understanding how viable old tech was and that perhaps progress doesn't always mean tossing aside what came before us. There's properties these tubes have that transistors could never hope to replicate
I agree! I’m 23 And ever since I was little I’ve always thought that old tech is better And works in more interesting ways!
@@chrisa2735-h3z Yeah going through an EE program these sort of things are never brought up, usually tubes are just portrayed as inferior transistors that were made completely obsolete, but the more you start learning about the very interesting things you can do the more you realize this how far from true them being obsolete is.
Wow, wonderful. My heart sank when you broke the five. LOL. You're just a genius Ron and a fashionable one to boot!
This is amazing. I want to see a nixie tube that glows a different color, like green, blue, or purple. Instead of the usual red-orange.
Well,I have to say my friend ,you are a genius .I'm a car mechanic in new zealand.and I'm constantly blown away by your skills and knowledge!
good job!!! I never realized such a way to make a big nixie tube!!
Love your creativity, and technical ability.
Brilliant i love to see you do the glasswork - keep them coming Ron - take care
Love watching this man work. An absolute genius. Wow!
What a work of art. I bet it looks fantastic at night with the lights out. :)
That's a thing of beauty. Love the look of neon.
Great to watch a master of multiple engineering disciplines like you. Beyond art! New subscriber from Norway :)
Thank you for these amazing projects. You are truly a renaissance person. The depth of your knowledge and the practical skills are inspiring. I hope to continue to learn and evolve as you have done. Keep up the great work! Oh, and I love your cat. As a cat person, we sometimes get left out. I can only hope to have a workshop like yours one day.
Precisely why I love your channel, "dangerous and fun".
I built a nixie clock back in the 70s with 74 series ICs so was keen to see how you were going to make your nixie.
I think you have made a really good looking nixie...well done, Ron. 8-)
Hi Ron, fascinating video as usual! I streamed it to our TV so Donna could watch it too. She said to tell you she was really impressed, and she didn’t even understand it! The glass work was a joy to watch, but you really got me when you got to the electronics. I never would’ve considered the possibility of capacitive coupling of the tubes at high frequencies, and I thought that switching the HV power supply and the “ground” side of the tubes at the same time to minimize arcing was brilliant. You’ve obviously done this before 😉
Hi Ron, I can't get enough of your glass blowing videos. Please keep them coming!
Amazing Ron the Deep orange color is so nice 👍👍
SIr I implore you to write a book which would contain as much of your expertise on tube electronics as possible.
Hi Ron your tech friend Dave here watched your amazing video you certainly are a very talented man best in the field I always enjoy watching your videos you can learn from watching you very good at what you do Ron I enjoyed seeing your cat in the video a little bit got to work on an old zenith myself this weekend keep sending the videos I really enjoy watching them I would have to say Ron you're the best in the field take care of yourself continue to wear a mask and may God bless you and be with you thank you
I'm lucky with the covid crap. I had it March of last year and it was like a bad cold for a couple days, then was gone. People that are getting it are in poor health. (most Americans!)
The Glasslinger is back! Fantastic video!
Ron, build 5 more (plus some colons) and put them in your front yard hooked up to an atomic clock!
Thanks for that tutorial on fixing that turbo pump a while back. Ended up replacing the mercury diffusion pump with the turbo and ressurecting a joel electron microscope for a college i went to. 🤓😁❤
Thanks for the time and effort you put into Gargantua lol.
Wow Ron, I mean just Wow! My mind is blown, just like your neon tubes. Just amazing sir, you are an amazing artist and your intelligence is on such a higher level than the rest of us. Fantastic video!
Without beginners injinuity you never reach expert stats ..you are amazing ...can't wait to see more stuff
You've got guts working with voltages that high! I did something similar imitating Nixies in a large scale with acrylic rods and LEDs. Each one about 4 inches tall. Very impressed with this video!
Great!
Could you explain, how to make glass-tungsten seals really vacuum tight?
See some of my other tube making videos. I show closeups of how to do it along with explanations.
Hello Glasslinger... You are just so clever... the knowledge you have just amazes me... thanks for your videos.
Ron, you have a LOT more patience that me......
Beautiful work!
You could have used a slayer exciter, Marx generates or simply Diode capacitor 8x voltage multiplier, it would have saved a lot of effort on the power supply side.
The tube is gigantic and as per my background reading, it is the worlds largest Nixie. Although it is not a true Nixie but still awesome.
The best part is your patience and dedication. You redo the broken stuff, and here we are who get pissed if a single solder joint is broken.
Cheers✨✨✨
The tube must be operated on AC. Using DC stresses one electrode severely and takes twice the current to get the same brightness.
always impressed, you are an inspiration to ingenuity! looks great!
Fantastic to see such a talented woman making electronics projects!
I wish I could just hang out in your shop being your assistant, gradually picking up some of these skills.
Talk About Slinging Glass ? Damn Buddy That Is Just Amazing Work !
Bless Up Buddy 😊
Now you just need to build 5 more so you can build a housing and have the largest nixie alarm clock ever built
Loved every minute of this video - you're very inspiring and a great teacher. Keep up the great work :)
Very interesting stuff. Can you not use a getter with neon tubes? I would have thought that to be quite useful for securing the vacuum.
Normally with a neon tube you use premade ends, that contain both the hollow electrode cup, the glass fed through and a getter inside the hollow cup, but fitting those on this size tube in the space available would be very hard, they are big, around 5/8 in diameter and 2in long. I am sure if Ron found a box or two of them he would use them, probably stripping them to make his own tubes, as they do come with a decent length of lead and a good seal, along with each being designed as evacuation port as well. The hollow cup design makes the electrode end large, so it lasts a long time, and the hollow cup with the ceramic lip means the sputtered electrode material is deposited mostly back on the cup, not on the glass.
Problem with the small tubes is fitting a getter, no room unless you put on a special getter section in an unlit section, and then paint it matt black with a mask to not have it visible.
@@SeanBZA The seals I make are totally vacuum tight. It will take years and years for enough gas to leak into the tube to make a difference.
I've had an interest in glass blowing since ever I saw a glass blower in action as a child. Thank you so much for sparing your experience. You meatnioned the problem with the 1/8" tubing closing up. I was wondering, would it be possible to keep the 1/8" tube open while it is heated if you had one end connected to a variable output aquarium pump, perhaps warming the air using a candle over a brass tube and using a heat tolerant type of plastic tubing ? Or is the tubing so thin that even that little of air pressure would cause the tube to form a globe?
A carbon rod was used to keep the tube from collapsing. Carbon does not stick to molten glass.
you just use a graphite reamer to keep it open
Someone needs to say it ... theese remind me of the huge nixie displays in the underground levels of Portal 2.
Your channel rocks too !
Couldn't you run the tungsten hot for a while to use it as a getter to get some of the extra air out? You could also bake the glass in the oven for an hour to outgas the water that is soaked into the surface.
Most amazing! Every video is such an adventure!
Hello! What is your vacuum system? I'd like to start with making some tubes, but I don't know what type of instrument I need. Can you just say models of your instrument? Thanks, good luck!
See my Tubecrafter.com website for all the info.
@@glasslinger hey ron, did the domain change?
The web host increased my hosting cost to $450 a year. I was only getting a few hits a week so I dropped the site. Sorry. I'm looking into a lower cost host now.
Gorgeous!
Thank you for sharing your work with us!
Take care, much love!
Yep, EVERYTHING's bigger in Texas! This is the Saturn 5 of Nixie tubes!
A genuine "Ron special build" - if ever there was one - with, for the non-Americans, a 20.3 X 50.8 cm tube, and ~34cm high numbers. @1:26:27 I'm guessing "that's slicker than snot on a doorknob" is Texan for "how serendipitous"! :)
Your tube "rendition" reminds me of my job lol. At least twice on every job we decide it'd either better or easier to beef something up
You are very clever must have years of experience great stuff cheers.
you are really a multi-talented person. love your video's!
Beautiful job, Ron.
Pritty cool. Always liked the warm look of nixie tube would be great as a second counter tho. you got some mad skills.
Genius!!!! Congratulations from Brazil!
Ron I am really amazed with your glass working skills. But I wonder if you could still have used the small tubing by drilling a hole in the side to make the T-junction before welding on the evacuation stem?
It is possible but very much more tedious work. Small tubing (1/8 dia.) is a real bear to work because it melts so quickly.
I watched the video mesmerized. Truly amazing, great channel, please accept my compliments.
That is one of the coolest damn things that I have ever seen. Very imaginative. My best compliments to you. A really great video like this is much appreciated. Thank you.
I love it love it love it. Your channel is like my favorite snack.
Just working on my Nixie clock, can i order 6 displays for the mark 2 design. ;-) todays vid was just a quick taster.
Size isn't important as long as you have a big one
Money isn't important if you're a billionaire.
@@bjornnilsson8352 Or the government! It's all other people's money!
Your channel deserves more subscribers. I think technical people are impressed by your skills.
It's a shame the general public don't understand.
When they finally build a star ship they will need an engineer as good as you to run it . Awesome.
I enjoy all your videos but this was especially fascinating. A lot of interesting challenges to overcome, the final result is very impressive!
Quite interesting, I was wondering how you would do it with such a thin glass bulb and the neon tube idea is genius, not technically a nixie tube but super cool either way
How did I miss this, I'm so glad I found it now, awesome as always ❤👍
What's not to like about giant Nixies from my favourite channel
That's a truly astonishing piece of work - I don't have the words to properly tell you how much I admire the achievement (and I bet Fran is jealous!)
Naw, she just wants it in her collection! :)
Amazing! It looks so cool! It's the biggest nixie tube on the earth!!!
Very interesting video. Thumbs up :)
What kind of pump do you use to get such a low pressure? I tried to find a matching diffusor pump but had no real luck.
They are almost always available on ebay. First, do some research on diffusion pumps so you know what to look for and what not to!
dim the lights, Ron! :) Beautiful job.
Actually, the camera goes crazy when I try to video it with the lights off! Something to do with the auto white balance I think.
@@glasslinger you can often turn off WB. Anyway, the least of my worries is how spectacular / dramatic your projects appear on video. Just glad you're well and doing what you and your audience / students enjoy! Thanks again!
Hi Glasslinder, I really apreceate your work. Let me ask you some, have you ever make a thyratron vacuum tubo?
Damn those tubes look good. This makes me want to make alpha numeric segmented displays with little tubes!
That would be 36 plus elements, theres a reason seven and star segments took over.
Awesome, love the idea and solution to not needing a heavy tube :D
This is next level stuff. Hats off to you!