Ice Tube clock - VFD tube

Iv-18 vfd

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Vacuum fluorescence display.

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Ice Tube clock - VFD tube

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Ice Tube clock - VFD tube

The dark spot is normal. Google for 'getter material'.

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Ice Tube clock - VFD macro

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Ice Tube clock - VFD macro

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Ice Tube clock - VFD macro

Getter material evaporated and deposited on the glass. In physics sometimes a so called "titanium sublimation pump (TSP)" is used for ultra high vacuum systems. Titanium has a high "sticking coefficient" and gas just sticks to it. There's also ion getter pumps being used for just holding the pressure.

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Ice Tube clock - VFD macro

The filament wires. They're heated up by current and some electrons are 'cooked out'.

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Ice Tube clock - VFD macro

A Filament wire again.

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Ice Tube clock - VFD macro

A single digit.

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Ice Tube clock - VFD macro

Interference fringes of a thin film. I guess some of the getter material (e.g. Barium) deposited there.
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