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Registered Member #122
Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 12:55PM
Location: Milano Italy
Posts: 148
He can detonate, often burns explosively.
I'd love to see a video of helium detonating.
Even on the earth crust (or even UNDER the earth crust) helium can cause huge messes
-the electric arc caused a quick evaporation of the superfluid helium wich caused an overpressure inside his tube; the safety valves was proved to be undersized and failed to release the helium quickly enough; the result was the tube explosion!!!!!
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Joined: Mon Aug 18 2008, 06:10PM
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Robert2 wrote ...
It is fast termite, you must be very careful! He can detonate, often burns explosively.
Yes, I am aware of this. One mixture can get you nice thermite that's fast, the other mixture gives you a boom. I'm also aware of the MSDS of each, especially the copper oxide
Looks cool...100V (50J) to a soda can, to test my rammer.
Registered Member #1334
Joined: Tue Feb 19 2008, 04:37PM
Location: Nr. London, UK
Posts: 615
Dalus wrote ...
a little project that kept me busy during the holiday
Looks like a Tubehobby NCV2.1 with IN-14s?
Good kit, but I absolutely hate the IN-14s - the Russian's use of the cheapskate inverted "2" for the "5" is just ... strange. Nearly all other Russian nixies (and all those made in other countries) use a "proper" "5".
If you get fed up with the inverted 2 (though some people like them!), you can always swap them for IN-16s or similar for a few bucks.
Registered Member #30
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706
Nice! Which kit is it? Would you recommend it? I've got a heap of Nixie tubes waiting to be made into a clock or three. Probably not as big as Nick's nixie heap, but size doesn't matter, it's what you do with them that counts!
On the "cool pic" subject, here is a gratuitous pic of a cat that escaped from a leaky intertubes near my home.
Registered Member #639
Joined: Wed Apr 11 2007, 09:09PM
Location: The Netherlands, Herkenbosch
Posts: 512
It's indeed the Tubehobby NCV2.1 kit with IN-14s I'm indeed tempted to swap them for IN-16s Think it would look better but the inverted 2 has something to it. We'll see. Need to make a housing for it first. Thinking of using plexi around the pcb's and have a copper top and bottom plate. nice and shiny It's quite a nice kit to build. Takes around 3 hours. Most of the hassle is getting the tubes wires in the holes on the pcb. Might change the neon bulbs for something smaller.
Talking about cats. This is my pet a Maine Coon
btw Nicko what's the status on the migratory junkbox?
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Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 02:07AM
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 938
I got a new camera for christmas and they are baling the paddock next door. A photographer friend showed me that if I track the moving object then everything else is blurry. All my "cool pics" are of my new baby boy though, which I won't put anyone through.
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