Vintage

Vintage (circa 1944) Victoreen 6107 / BS 212 GM tubes & HV PSU I picked up these little gems (and they are!) along with a (matching?) power supply, crystal earpiece and instructions on using them to make a rudimentary Geiger counter. I got them for £26.20 shipped, which I think is great price for these pieces of history, although they were sold as parts and unknown if working/no way to test. As it happens, both tubes work great! One tube came wrapped up in vintage fluff in it's original box and the other tube was loose. The loose tube was in worse condition than the boxed one. The boxed

I have just picked up a couple of Mullard MX-124 GM tubes on ebay for a song! I originally bid a fair amount that I immediately regretted, but when the auction finished I got them for a really good price! There were two tubes in the auction and one came with original datasheet and Mullard guarantee . They are quite unusual in they are designed to detect radiation in liquids. Their construction is like a glass walled GM tube inside a test tube, with a stopper on the end. They are to be used in a vertical position and the liquid poured into the top of the tube and the liquid will run down to