Table Clock for $2G anyone?

[Johnny Vinyl]

http://www.stereophile.com/content/hey-mac-you-got-time

 

[es347]

no thanks MAC..

I really like my MAC electronics but have never drunk the MAC kool aid. Watch the "blue meter group" stand in line for one of these. Pathetic.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I am happier with the appearance of my Meridian F80.

 

[garylkoh]

I think this one is far nicer:

 

[amirm]

Wow, it must have been 30 years since I saw one of those tubes! I always found them very neat.

 

[mep]

Amiir-tube engineers from yesteryear could make tubes do damn near anything. just look through an RCA tube manual sometime to pick up a flavor for what has been created. Tubes are truly engineering marvels.

 

[amirm]

Indeed. I would always marvel at what goes in them and intricate manufacturing. That was one of their appeals: you could look inside them!!!

 

[DonH50]

First DMM I built for myself was a Heathkit with nixie tube displays. Wish I'd kept that just for fun!

 

[Johnny Vinyl]

Amir!

Didin't notice you had started a thread about this 2 days earlier. Please go ahead and merge.....

 

[MiTT]

I've been checking around for a Nixie Tube clock myself. The top one here is available as a kit for $85.00. I'm ordering one so that I can build something similar to the one shown in the bottom shot. I think they both look pretty awesome!

 

[amirm]

That's really nice industrial design!

 

[es347]

I've been checking around for a Nixie Tube clock myself. The top one here is available as a kit for $85.00. I'm ordering one so that I can build something similar to the one shown in the bottom shot. I think they both look pretty awesome!

That 2nd one is awesome. Is that someones DIY or is it available?

 

[amirm]

I found a link to the first one: http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=39&products_id=194

Still searching for second. Seems like Tape decks, as soon as these things got some attention, the price of tubes went sky high and availability had become poor.

 

[MiTT]

Here's a link to the second one with the sweet industrial design. There are a couple of other cool photo's there as well as a video. Very cool stuff.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/sweet_vacuum_tube_clock_build.html

It's actually a Russian Vacuum Fluorescent Display (VFD) rather than a Nixie tube used in both of the one's I'd cited earlier. That really great looking second one in unfortunateky not available as either a finished good or a kit, it's completely custom DIY. It would look great next to my BAT pre-amp though!

 

[Bruce B]

Where's that Tice clock when you need it??