Nombex Type 62 Cap/Res Bridge.

[Yorkie]

A good EM34 is probably worth more than the Bridge David.

Alan

Yes indeed!

[AlanBeckett]

It's the same with Advance Counter/Timers which I watch. I'm sure people pay what is in essence silly prices simply to get the Nixies etc

Alan

[Nick]

Most nixies are quite cheap - its only very specific ones that are silly money... of the 150-odd types I have in stock, only maybe 10 cost more than USD 50 each and only 4 are more than a USD 100 each, and then only because they are very large and rare.

CD47/GR414s can go for euro 500 each as they almost never appear and are pretty much the largest nixie ever made (thought there is an incredibly rare French one that, technically, may be bigger).

Z568s are now very expensive - over USD 250 - as they are just extremely rare and very beautiful. I bought a load of these about 20 years ago when they were reasonably cheap (USD 25 ea.) and built clocks with them, e.g. the one below...

There is no real need to rip nice test kit apart to get at the displays... (generally!)

   

[AlanBeckett]

That may well be so Nick, but it doesn't stop people paying silly prices for them.

Alan

[Refugee]

I have got a frequency counter with a nixie display and now it is restored I will keep using it. I also have an early 1970s industrial batch counter with a nixie display that is being built into a transformer winder as it features a relay that switches when a preset count is reached. There will be no laying arm for the turns and the counter takes care of the numbers as the turns are laid manually.
I also own an AC resistance bridge that was once used for measuring the resistance of liquids in a chemistry lab. It has got a mint magic eye. It has front panel terminals that allow it to do inductance or capacitance with an external decade box.
Anybody got a spare decade box?