[sdiy] Positron my ass

[Ian Fritz]

At 12:27 AM 9/10/2003, metasonix wrote:
> >http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrniell/cyc1.html
> >http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrniell/cyc2.html
>
>That kid needed a lesson in vacuum systems.
>
>One thing you just don't do:
>use brass or aluminum in a cyclotron chamber.
>Degassing those metals is a nightmare.

Degassing is difficult, yes, but it can be done, as he demonstrated.


>Nor do you use plastic tubing....

Nonsense. Tygon tubing is used all the time in experimental lab work.


  Ian