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Re: mercury batcher

Posted By: neontek
Date: Saturday, 22 May 2010, at 4:20 a.m.

In Response To: Re: mercury batcher (stampeder)

> I just picked up a 1989 reprint of Miller
> & Fink's 1935 "Neon Signs"
> while browsing a second hand bookstore.

> They show a side-tube method of inserting
> mercury into a unit and talk about heating
> the mercury in the trap to boiling with a
> hand torch while the tube pumps down after
> bombarding. I can just imagine the mercury
> contamination in some of the older shops
> that used this or other questionable
> practices.

> If anyone else has this book, its on page
> 100 under "The Side-tube Method".

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I have an original 1935 publication and it's on pg. 191 in that book.

There did not seem to be many safety concerns with Mercury then.

Yes, there's some pretty interesting stuff in that original book. A lot of the info. is actually useful, but some of it is definitely outdated practices. It's like a "NEON time capsule" to the 1930's. An interesting read.

Tony D.

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• mercury batcher -- Vazgen -- Tuesday, 18 May 2010, at 8:06 p.m.
  • Re: mercury batcher -- stampeder -- Tuesday, 18 May 2010, at 10:57 p.m.
    • Re: mercury batcher -- SVP Neon Equipment -- Wednesday, 19 May 2010, at 1:21 a.m.
      • Re: mercury batcher -- neontek -- Wednesday, 19 May 2010, at 4:16 a.m.
        • Re: mercury batcher -- GB -- Wednesday, 19 May 2010, at 5:51 a.m.
          • Re: mercury batcher -- SVP Neon Equipment -- Wednesday, 19 May 2010, at 12:48 p.m.
          • Re: mercury batcher -- neontek -- Wednesday, 19 May 2010, at 3:02 p.m.
      • Re: mercury batcher -- stampeder -- Wednesday, 19 May 2010, at 4:41 p.m.
        • Re: mercury batcher -- Don Miner -- Thursday, 20 May 2010, at 12:10 p.m.
          • Re: mercury batcher -- SVP Neon Equipment -- Friday, 21 May 2010, at 12:03 p.m.
            • Re: mercury batcher -- Don Miner -- Friday, 21 May 2010, at 5:07 p.m.
  • Re: mercury batcher -- stampeder -- Saturday, 22 May 2010, at 1:39 a.m.
    • Re: mercury batcher -- neontek -- Saturday, 22 May 2010, at 4:20 a.m.
      • Re: mercury batcher -- stampeder -- Saturday, 22 May 2010, at 4:50 a.m.
        • Re: mercury batcher -- Dana -- Saturday, 22 May 2010, at 7:14 p.m.
  • Re: mercury batcher -- Dana -- Saturday, 22 May 2010, at 4:44 a.m.

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