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Electron Valve

@electronvalve.co
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Mostly neon. Sometimes old computers. Occasionally photography, fountain pens, and nixie tubes. Brooklyn but slowly migrating to Palm Springs/Joshua Tree. AI is not art.

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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 28/07/2026
Ok, that is scary - No boots on the tubes? Super thin wiring? (also, where do the wires exit the channel letters? Like, it may illuminate, but that seems more than a little sketchy.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 09/05/2026
easily one of my favorite signs in the Twin Cities
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Bob @actualbob.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
📱| Minnesota State Fair (2025) #BlueSkyArtShow #Soft
Neon soft-serve ice cream cone sign glowing in white, purple, and yellow behind a glass block window at night.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 27/04/2026
something like this? I had this one for a full week before returning it www.manualslib.com/manual/41637...
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E.DIGITAL TREO 10 USER MANUAL Pdf Download
View and Download E.Digital Treo 10 user manual online. Digital Music Jukebox. Treo 10 mp3 player pdf manual download.
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PólMac @polmaccarthaigh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Yurakucho, Tokyo. The sign promises. The pipes don't. #documentaryphotography #tokyo #japan #streetphotography #nightphotography #leicam
The side wall of a small Tokyo restaurant at night, a red neon sign reading Yakitori and Sashimi Beer glowing above. Below it the functional infrastructure of the building is exposed — air conditioning units, gas pipes, a ladder, electrical boxes. A small kitchen window reveals a cook working inside. Through a plastic sheet to the right a crowd of people is visible. Colour.
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Susan @smocarski.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
By the time the concert in Kenosha was over last night, it was super foggy and the neon sign was crazily lighting everything red. Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode.... "KENNY!!!!!"
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 15/04/2026
www.westsiderag.com/2026/03/25/w...
A refurbished old channel neon sign reading “Murray’s STURGEON SHOP” - the Murray’s is filled with yellow tubes in a script font. the sign is mounted on a white board.

Below the sign is a small shop with a display window and a roll down gate.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 15/04/2026
What am I going to do with 8lbs of uranium glass tubes? I have no idea. That's a problem for future me.
a bundle of small, green glowing, glass tubes, arranged in 6 bunches and wrapped in bubble wrap. There are random packing peanuts and a brown cardboard box next to the packet of tubes. On the bottom left is the edge of a UV flashlight and a purple glow coming out from the front.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 12/04/2026
I'm guessing I got the hard kind. It wasn't labeled on ebay. The good news is that I can make it stick to borosilicate - I just needs to buy some appropriate electrodes.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 11/04/2026
I’ll need to use a different kind of electrode - something like this taminglightning.net/store/produc...
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Electrodes Archives - Store | Taming Lightning LLC
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Plognark @plognark.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I don’t know enough of the basics here, but I think it’s probably “thermal broadening”, where the silicon dioxide molecules, when hot, now block a broader range of the normal room-temperature bandwidth. It still looks transparent to us since we can’t see in the affected wavelengths.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 11/04/2026
Good find. Thanks for sharing.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 11/04/2026
I ran in to the same AI problem :-/ The other prevalent metal element in the the glass I *think* is boron but I purchased this on eBay with no technical specifications. Apparently it was made by Corning but I can't seem to find any spec sheet.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 11/04/2026
Me: Will it stick? Narrator: It would not stick. No matter how many times he tried. The difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion was too great between the glasses and he didn't bother to google it before trying.
A think green-ish tube of glass with a neon electrode on the end. The background is a shop floor with some plumbing below a table. There is a chair in the background. On the right hand side it a metal pipe with a few flexible gas lines leading up to a torch which is not in the photo.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 11/04/2026
Yes, actually. This is actually a pretty forgiving glass to work with. It doesn't expand/contract as much as soda lime so it's less likely to crack when you heat it. Subjectively, it felt more fluid than the same diameter soda-lime glass. But it's also only 5mm OD.
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Bob @actualbob.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
📱 | St. Paul, Minnesota (2026) The Doctor is in and the prognosis is full steam ahead. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNonsense
A picture a cluttered model train repair workshop. A man with white hair, beard, and glasses, wearing a blue shirt and apron, sits at a workbench working on a small locomotive. Above him, a large, glowing red neon sign reads "ELECTRIC TRAINS." The walls are packed with Lionel Train memorabilia, including vintage signs, diagrams, and shelves filled with miniature train cars and parts. To the right of the man, a large monitor displays a high-definition, top-down view of the delicate components he is repairing. A small sign hanging near the center is titled "The Train Doctor," inviting observers to watch him at work. The atmosphere is warm and filled with organized chaos.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 11/04/2026
1) Yea, I need to proofread. 2) If anyone can point me to an explanation of the chemistry of why this happens, I'd love to learn more.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 11/04/2026
Weird discovery about uranium glass today - when you heat it, it looses it's ability to fluoresce. The dark spot in the tube was held in a flame for just a second. After the tube cools, the bent portion glows the same as the unbent glass. Does not adhere to soda-lime glass. Does to boro.
A thin glass tube in front of a black beanbag and on top of a dirty workbench. The tube is hit with UV light and most of the tube is glowing green - except for one dark spot in the middle of the tube.
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Thein (he/him) @theinarro.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent #Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 DC, #Nikon #D5500 #nightphotography #citylights #businessnights #neon #theatre #Kelowna #BC #Canada
A night photograph of a neon sign for the now-shuttered Paramount Theatre in Kelowna, BC jutting diagonally across the frame
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AIC: Contemporary Art (Bot) @aiccontemporary.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Human Nature/Life Death www.artic.edu/artworks/147513
Regarded as one of the most innovative artists of his generation, Bruce Nauman has produced an oeuvre of stunning diversity, encompassing works of film, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. He creates profoundly aesthetic experiences that are often aimed at disrupting viewers’ habits of perception. In the mid-1960s the artist adopted the medium of flashing neon in order to critically examine the role of language in visual art. Inspired by its hypnotic aura and non-art aesthetic, Nauman began using this quintessentially commercial medium in an ironic way, as a vehicle for wordplay, puns, and jokes. The artist created this neon sign for an invitational sculpture exhibition held in Chicago in 1985. Three pairs of words, antithetical in their connotations, line the six-foot circumference: life and death, love and hate, and pleasure and pain. In the center, human, animal, and nature are repeated in stacked sets of two. Each word blinks independently, ordered so that over several minutes all possible permutations are displayed. Juxtapositions of colors produce optical illusions that create a jarring, visceral effect. This work ultimately insists on language’s inability to deliver a fixed or stable set of meanings, conveying a deep suspicion about what constitutes truth, especially in the public realm.

Acquired from City of Chicago Public Art Program Collection, through prior gifts of Florence S. McCormick and Emily Crane Chadbourne
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 03/04/2026
Every time I get a blueberry muffin I think of this movie
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Crymcn | Unaffiliated Simracing vTuber @crymcn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I love this photo. One of my best, so far, I think.
A picture of a neon sign, saying "Town Topic Hamburgers" at night, illuminated in red, giving off a soft blooming glow. The building the sight is attached to is grey, with a rounded triangle protrusion acting as a pylon.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 01/04/2026
Love this thread. Thanks @highway62.bsky.social
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Neon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We have some exciting news: NEON DEUTSCHLAND, the book, is coming soon. Published by Prestel Verlag, the book contains over 350 images of neon signs from some 45 cities throughout Germany. It is available for pre-order now, and should be in bookshops by mid-April. www.penguin.de/buecher/jess...
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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Downtown signage
Bradbury Building in period typeA sign reading Arcade in front of a columned facadeRoxie Theater marquee and facade. No it's no longer a movie theater.Ghost Sando Shop neon sign
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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 7 of many. Fuji X-T5. Everett Motel, which included a smoke shop, closed in 2012 and was demolished in 2015. The site is now a vacant lot, and only this broken neon sign remains. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa
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Thoeni @thoeni.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#GreenSat #neon #streetphotography Neon signs are my weakness!
New Haven, CT
A neon sign lettered in green called Claire’s Cirner Copia. cute pan by Claire in the middle of the letters is a cornucopia in yellow with a orange carrot and I think some apples the sign is transparent so you can see through to the inside of the store
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Matt Hucke @matthucke.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Neon of Everett, WA, Part 5 of many. Fuji X-T5. Totem Family Dining, since 1953. The sign, painted to resemble a carved totem pole, alternately lights the two "TOTEM" words; these are composite photos to show both lit together. The message below changes often. #neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A friend is on vacation in Austin, TX and sent me this. I'm gonna need one of those neon signs for sure.
a red neon sign that says the owl. an owl is perching on the upper left of the "o" in owl. Also an owl pictured on a poster that says cucamonga owl brand.
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Ric Blessing’s Photos @blessingx.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Heart, Route 66 (2026.02.15 | Kingman, AZ | Leica SL2 & Voigtlander 50mm f/1.0 Nokton) #route66 #kingmanaz #photography #neon #neonsign #roadsign #roadside #roadtrip #americanwest #leica #voigtlander
Kingman sign
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 28/03/2026
Thank you!
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 27/03/2026
It’s a little on the thin side - but let me see if I can attach electrodes to this uranium glass tube. (I only have soda lime electrodes - may need to order some borosilicate ones.)
A bundle of thing glass tubes in bubble wrap sitting in a counter. They are being illuminated with UV light and glowing bright green.
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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Photo thread from LA. I'll try to keep it all in one place. If I miss an alt text, please don't yell. I'm tired.
The Safari Inn neon sign, lit in red and blue.
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Riss @galaxiesgone.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Hadn't really said much here but long story very short: got surprise laid off a couple weeks ago, but took a job in another position in the company and have to move. So, saying goodbye for now to VA soon. Took some pictures of favorite local signs today as a little farewell.
Front of a sandwich shop at night illuminated red, with neon signs in the shape of train cars that say "Subway Station"Front of a local store at night with someone standing in the illuminated entrance next to a rack of canoes, with a neon sign overhead that says "Wilcox Bait & Tackle" and underneath that, "Guns"Unlit neon sign in the day on a brick wall that says "Fine Furniture"Antique furniture brick storefront and parking lot in the daytime, with a retro sign on the left that says "Center Avenue" and then below it, "Total Image Beauty Salon"
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 26/03/2026
Here is another one. Base44 whatever that ai slop is
A logo for a company called base44 - the logo is a circle with horizontal stripes cut out of the bottom like all of the other logos in the thread. The text reads “Base 44”
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 26/03/2026
I'm kinda digging all of the Aperture Science rebranding that is going on. It's not about why. It's about Why Not?!
A 1970s version of the Aperture laboratory logo - it is a circle with a gradated orange to yellow with horizontal stripes cut of out the circle. To the right of the circle is the word "aperture" written in a soft round font. (I think this is a version of the "Cooper Black" font) It is a black circle, with stripes cut of of the circle on the bottom half. The circle is rotate 45 degrees.A logo for Dawn. No idea wtf that is. But it also has a circle logo, with horizontal cuts taken out of the bottom half of the logo.
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Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Neon Museum, Las Vegas, NV
A neon sign at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. A bright yellow duck, at least as tall as 2 people, stands next to a sign reading "La Concha."Neon signs in a pile at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. The signs read, "Home of Lido," "Dunes Entrance," and "Silver Slipper."A neon sign at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. A red martini glass that says "Red Barn, Open."A neon sign at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pink swooping letters say "Moulin Rouge." The Hard Rock Cafe guitar is far in the background.
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Typographica @typographica.org · 25/03/2026
Two signs from @sfneon.bsky.social’s Mission tour last week: 20 Spot and Cherin’s Auto.
Photo of a neon sign at night. The sign reads “Records” in red tubing with a blue tube frame. Photo of a neon sign at night. The sign reads “AUTO” in white tubing on a red reflective background.
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Chris Freitag @freitag.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Seriously Though #photography #leica #denver
A brightly lit bar exterior at night, featuring a neon sign that reads "SATIRE LOUNGE" alongside "MIXED DRINKS." The building has a brick façade and a prominent entrance with red accents. Nearby signage promotes food and fun.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 25/03/2026
Real Neon Shops use Stazon Blockout paint to block out light from tubes. www.brillite.com/products/pai... I’m cheap. I like Rustoleum latex paint. And egg cartons.
A white neon tube with the end bent in to a U shape and dipped in black paint. The whole thing is tenuously balanced on an egg carton. Next to the tube is a small can of black latex paint. A close up of a red circular neon tube with both ends forming a straight line. The straight parts of the tube are tickle coated in black paint and also perched precarious on a home made stand of cardboard and waste plastic.
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Eve Hoyt @eveningneon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Mental Loop. This "neon" tube is actually filled with krypton gas. This one was tricky to bend, as I wanted the tube to line up right above the circular shapes of the doily. My favorite part of this piece is the side eye expression of the doll.
Found object artwork using neon (krypton filled) tube bent into circles over a doily with an old porcelain doll in the center. It is mounted on a circular background, inside an antique frame.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 23/03/2026
50% re-sharing for the Badger Liquor sign 50% because it's Madison
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 22/03/2026
Eye placement and blockout paint aside - I’m excited with how this is turning out. Next up: measure and laser cut acrylic backing
A pigeon shape in neon - the body is in a sky blue, the eye is a deep red, and the neck stripes are a coral pink and green.

The tubes are just laid out on a workbench and connected with random wires. At the top of the frame is a random white neon tube that is not illuminated.

The whole setup looks a little sketchy.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 22/03/2026
Ok the neck bands are looking pretty awesome. They still need some blockout paint but I love the colors.
A small u-shaped neon tube. The top is glowing a coral pink and the bottom one is glowing a green with a blue tint.  On the left side of the tubes are electrodes.
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Dazma Photography @dazmaphotography.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
#omsystem #photographersofbluesky #neon #neonsign #photography #m43 #yqr #sask #regina
Neon sign on a busy street
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 19/03/2026
Ok, just got notice from the shop that the units were successfully pumped. I’m excited to see them glow.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 17/03/2026
Looks more Stuart Semple 😆
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iamkosmonaut @digitalcosmonaut.com · 14/03/2026
Spotted this fantastic GDR-era neon sign today. It's from the now defunct VEB Orbitaplast - which specialized in producing semi-finished plastic products.
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Electron Valve @electronvalve.co · 13/03/2026
I tend to like simple solutions
a sign mounted by a street encouraging pedestrians to "Be seen. Grab a brick!" Below the sign is a small box holding a few red bricks.
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