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Re: neon tubes

Posted By: JOHN ANDERSON
Date: Friday, 17 June 2011, at 5:13 p.m.

In Response To: neon tubes (Mal)

Sodium deposits on glass left over from manufacturing. Rinse the glass in water (preferably warm or hot) and the problem should go away.

(Sylvania investigated this a few years ago)

> Now I must be getting old because for the
> life
> of me I can not remember the solution to the
> following. Pumped 15mm clear red
> units.pumped
> each unit twice adn they came of the bench
> red
> from one end to the other. 10 minutes later
> some of them have gone pinkish in the middle
> of the unit. I have had this problem before
> in
> the past , but I can't remember what cause
> it.

Messages In This Thread

• neon tubes -- Mal -- Friday, 17 June 2011, at 5:50 a.m.
  • Re: neon tubes -- JOHN ANDERSON -- Friday, 17 June 2011, at 5:13 p.m.
    • Re: neon tubes -- Don Miner -- Saturday, 18 June 2011, at 11:16 a.m.
      • Re: neon tubes -- Mal -- Tuesday, 21 June 2011, at 10:19 a.m.

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