About the author : Dalibor

I have almost no time to spend on nixies recently (moving to new house, newborn twins..), so there are some photos of my previous work.. It is mostly preparing of tools for work in the future..

A glassworking torch, oxy-gas..

There is a common oxy-acetylene torch in the upper part of the image, I bought it for $25 with a lot of flame tips..

Home-made cross-fire torch tip for use with the acetylene torch..

Gas manifolds, one for oxygen, one for gas. It allows me to connect up to 3 torches at a time.

A lot of tips I got with the acetylene torch.

My gas bottles, the bigger one is with oxygen, the smaller one with propane-butane.

A blade saw made according to Ron Soyland, for mounting onto metal lathe..

New spot welder, made again according to Ron Soyland, the two knobs are for adjusting the welding time and power.. Cheap and easy to do, don’t waste your time and money with a capacitor discharge welder as I did.. If You need a photo of the innards, just let me know..

Pinch welder, made of a barbeque needle, aluminium bars and a copper wire.. Simple, easy to do..

A base of a baking oven, need to make an enclosure with hinge.

This material should sustain temperatures up to 950°C, it is called Promasil.

Current state of my new glassworking lathe.. I went into troubles with the shaft, it is not perfectly straight, I must ask someone to make new one. I don’t have so long lathe :-(

A base of the chuck.

The worm gears I made for the chuck.

The actuator..

There will be one more pulley, called “idler”, it will draw the belt tight..

The spindle without a chuck.

A large “timing” pulley, instead of buying regular one, I used Ron’s tip to make only some pins to behave like a regular pulley..

Initially, I didn’t want to make this public, but.. You might now see in how primitive conditions I am working :-D But this is going to change soon with new house..

4 Comments

  1. kay486 October 15, 2012 at 21:59

    It looks to me like you are on a good way, cant wait to see you work on actuall tubes. I was amazedthat you could make those gears just like that, i would never think that they would be this precise using that method.
    Anyway, keep up the nice work, id always bee happ to see more!

    • Dalibor October 23, 2012 at 21:36

      Thanks!

      I saw that method somewhere on the web.. It would be better to make a ACME thread, but the ACME tap is too expensive!

  2. xx000 August 26, 2013 at 22:00

    Zajímalo by mě jak se vypočítá průměr šnekového kolečka a hloubka najetí závitníkem. Díky

  3. Mads Barnkob September 15, 2015 at 10:12

    Do you have more pictures or schematics of your spot welder?

    I like the use of a regular food tong

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