Not to be outdone, here I make an absolutely gargantuan nixie tube! This turned out to be one hell of a lot more trouble than it first seemed it would be!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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.
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.
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!
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. 🤓😁❤
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.
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.
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!
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 😉
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
@@chrisandrus2735 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.
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.
I really admire your ability to absorb a setback and then calmly prevail.
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 UA-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.
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.
It's always a treat to see someone who mastered his work do a unique project like this.
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.
You answered so many of my questions about filling discharge tubes with gas. I love learning from your videos. Thanks Ron!
I love when the you tube recommendations actually work and give me a video i want to watch.
That's a thing of beauty. Love the look of neon.
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.
This video makes you a bonified national treasure! Much more entertaining than anything on the networks, too.
Glasswork has always fascinated me, but long, vacuum sealed tubes give me the heebies! Fantastic work!
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.
That is one awesome giant Nixie tube. Franlab needs to see this!
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
Precisely why I love your channel, "dangerous and fun".
Beautiful project!!! All your digits are so even in color and intensity. Thanks for going into the details of your driver circuit.
Mad genius, excellent work as usual. So much respect for your talents
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.
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.
Wonderful and engrossing. Love the relay switching concept, never saw that done before. Thanks for the look.
Cool tube. Your work is amazing! Thanks for showing it to us.
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.
Love watching this man work. An absolute genius. Wow!
Brilliant i love to see you do the glasswork - keep them coming Ron - take care
Pure genius. I don't know how you do it Ron. Your knowhow and patience is off the scale. Thanks
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!
Good to know you still doing your work 👍👍
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!
SIr I implore you to write a book which would contain as much of your expertise on tube electronics as possible.
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.
always impressed, you are an inspiration to ingenuity! looks great!
good job!!! I never realized such a way to make a big nixie tube!!
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.
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
How did I miss this, I'm so glad I found it now, awesome as always ❤👍
Hello Glasslinger... You are just so clever... the knowledge you have just amazes me... thanks for your videos.
Now you just need to build 5 more so you can build a housing and have the largest nixie alarm clock ever built
Gorgeous!
Thank you for sharing your work with us!
Take care, much love!
Love your creativity, and technical ability.
Genius!!!! Congratulations from Brazil!
Loved every minute of this video - you're very inspiring and a great teacher. Keep up the great work :)
Talk About Slinging Glass ? Damn Buddy That Is Just Amazing Work !
Bless Up Buddy 😊
Most amazing! Every video is such an adventure!
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.
Thanks for the time and effort you put into Gargantua lol.
Great to watch a master of multiple engineering disciplines like you. Beyond art! New subscriber from Norway :)
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!
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.
Hi Ron, I can't get enough of your glass blowing videos. Please keep them coming!
Awesome, love the idea and solution to not needing a heavy tube :D
Freaking amazing Ron. You are really the master!
What a work of art. I bet it looks fantastic at night with the lights out. :)
Fantastic to see such a talented woman making electronics projects!
This is next level stuff. Hats off to you!
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!
I love it love it love it. Your channel is like my favorite snack.
Amazing Ron the Deep orange color is so nice 👍👍
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. 🤓😁❤
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!
I watched the video mesmerized. Truly amazing, great channel, please accept my compliments.
Ron, you have a LOT more patience that me......
Beautiful work!
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.
What's not to like about giant Nixies from my favourite channel
Ridiculously fascinating !
What a masterpiece ...
That's awesome! Nicely done!!!
I enjoy all your videos but this was especially fascinating. A lot of interesting challenges to overcome, the final result is very impressive!
Beautiful job, Ron.
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.
Amazing! It looks so cool! It's the biggest nixie tube on the earth!!!
"My goodness gravy"... 😂
Fantastic work...!
you are really a multi-talented person. love your video's!
Amazing as always
You are very clever must have years of experience great stuff cheers.
Without beginners injinuity you never reach expert stats ..you are amazing ...can't wait to see more stuff
That's brilliant! I love it.
Awesome result!
the guys skills is just amazing...
A truly epic video, thanks Ron
When they finally build a star ship they will need an engineer as good as you to run it . Awesome.
your coolest project yet!
Awesome work, thanks for sharing with us. Greetings from germany
Wow....what a talent you have..... Really enjoyed watching this. Clever :)
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!
nice i so enjoy your skill and projects, love the videos
I love your channel long time subscriber always enjoy your work with all kinds of tubes specially nixies !
Amazing video thanks so much! I learned a lot. Very cool. I like how you say iteration as "eye"teration 😁👍
Awesome work, looks amazing
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 😉
Pretty happy at you have a cool looking result.
Pritty cool. Always liked the warm look of nixie tube would be great as a second counter tho. you got some mad skills.
your so clever and fun I wish kids these days would be interested in things like electronics, it's a real shame, thanks' pal.
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!
@@chrisandrus2735 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.
Much enjoyed again, Ron...
It was very educational. Thank you!