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title: "Extract Fumes In Midcentury Style With Nixie Tubes And Military Surplus"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/extract-fumes-in-midcentury-style-with-nixie-tubes-and-military-surplus-xefvpnesx
source_url: https://hackaday.com/2026/07/05/extract-fumes-in-midcentury-style-with-nixie-tubes-and-military-surplus
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source: "Hackaday"
published: 2026-07-06T05:26:27.919Z
updated: 2026-07-06T05:26:43.650Z
reading_time: 2
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# Extract Fumes In Midcentury Style With Nixie Tubes And Military Surplus

**[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A maker built a beautifully crafted solder fume extractor using Nixie tubes, a custom PCB with an ATMega microcontroller, and MOSFETs to drive the display. The enclosure is 3D-printed from Wood PLA, stained to convincingly resemble real wood. Two Nixie digits show the fan's RPM as a percentage of maximum, and a salvaged READY/NOT READY indicator from a Panavia Tornado aircraft signals when the fan reaches its set speed.

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