A couple cheap argons

[GooeyGus]

[quote author=GooeyGus link=1222013014/0#6 date=1222124111]I also have a nice blue strobe light that looks like an argon laser. It flashes with every click of the starter  ;D ;D

You do know you're blowing off a small chunk of the cathode with every click, right?  :-/[/quote]

Yeah... but I'm pretty sure the tube is toast anyway, so I figured I don't have much to lose

The hour gauge doesn't have a reading, and the ones I've seen that are at 0, you can see that the marker is at zero. So, I think this tube was maxed-out, off the scale.