[sdiy] OT: Today's toxic mess

[Glen]

At 05:08 PM 2/22/01 , KA4HJH wrote:
>Well, hopefully not. Today I finally got around to disassembled that X-ray
>head that's been sitting around here for ages. Surprise! The housing is
>full of HV oil! Good thing a jar was handy. Good thing a plastic tub was
>handy when it turned out to be just over a quart.

What I want to know is, why did you feel compelled to dismantle it in the
first place? Were you just curious as to what the insides looked like? I
assume yours had a motorized rotating anode, and the tube was surrounded by
a heavy metal housing?. I have no idea  if your tube was still functional
before you took it apart, but those are very expensive items. They cost
several thousand dollars to replace. I'm not sure what sort of amateur
purpose one could use such a tube for, unless you wanted to construct your
own X-Ray machine and flirt with getting cancer in the process.

Perhaps Eric Barbour knows of some way to use one of these tubes in a
synthesizer application?  :)


Later,
Glen

P.S. I used to install and repair X-Ray machines in the past, but I've
never personally owned an X-Ray tube.