Toxic magnetrons?

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Scott Hanson" <huil888-at-surfside-dot-net> 

"Moon" (do you have a name?):

Can you elaborate on the "highly toxic pink bead" you referred to?

What is the actual material the pink bead is made of?

Where is it located in the magnetron?

Are you referring to a microwave oven magnetron, or a high power radar
magnetron?

Regards,
Scott Hanson

What is the
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 7:14 AM
Subject: RE: Is there a magic guass?


 > Original poster: "Black Moon" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > Ohh, iv played with arcs and magnets, only small ones tho with super
 > powerful hard drive neo magnets. Beware the pink bead in a magnatron, its
 > highly toxic...
 > neo magnets do cool stuff to arcs
 > in a xenon tube, iv made arcs do compleat loops with an external neo
magnet
 > when arcing to the magnet, i made the arc look like one half of a jump
rope
 > being spun, every strike would make a bright spot on the magnet, and the
 > next strike was right next to it, not sure why on earth it did what it
did,
 > but the strikes would spiral around, quite fast (as a flyback is a few khz
ac)
 > iv also heard that with a Y tube, and a magnet placed at the joint, you
can
 > use it to rectify ac by directing the arc down either side of the Y
 >
 >
 > >From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > >Subject: RE: Is there a magic guass?
 > >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:00:24 -0600
 > >
 > >Original poster: "Mudford, Chris by way of Terry Fritz
 > ><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chris.mudford-at-agresearch.co.nz>
 > >
 > >What is the effect of having a magnet in the vacinity of a streamer?
 > >Does it attract or repel it?
 > >
 > >Building a mot supply has left me with several magnitrons which I've
 > >dismantelled and got the magnets out of them.  I wondered about stacking
 > >up several of them and having them where a break out point would be
 > >directing the streamer to.  Perhaps it may make the streamer longer, or
 > >it may of course disrupot the ion pathway and diminish streamer length.
 > >
 > >Any thoughts or experiences?
 > >
 > >Cheers, Chris (NZ)
 > >
 > >-----Original Message-----
 > >From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 > >Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2003 11:27 a.m.
 > >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > >Subject: Re: Is there a magic guass?
 > >
 > >
 > >Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz
 > ><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bunikllr-at-bellsouth-dot-net>
 > >
 > >Tesla list wrote:
 > >
 > > >Original poster: "John by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > > ><fireba8104-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 > > >
 > > >Seeing how there are "Magic k's" and that coupling is related to flux
 > > >is
 > > >there a magic Gauss? Anyone with a hall-effect? I only have a fuzzy
 > >idea.
 > > >I'm still kind of a newbie.
 > > >John
 > > >
 > > >
 > >Hi John...
 > >
 > >Gauss and flux are somehow interconnected    they are both magnetic
 > >(IIRC)
 > >
 > >I had recieved 2 AWESOME neodynium magnets from ebay ( 2.4X1.6 round...
 > >almost impossible to take them apart when accidentally placed together
 > >but thats another story)    and I am planning to see what effect they
 > >have
 > >on streamer "control" they will have. Of course I will use a break-out
 > >point to "confine" the streamer but  that will be seen when it is
 > >done.....    conjecture and ideas......
 > >
 > >Ive been doing T- Coils for a few years now ( maybe about 5-6) AND IM
 > >STILL
 > >A NEWBIE :)
 > >especially since all the new stuff has been added ( SSTC etc...)   but
 > >hey  thats what keeps this hobby so interesting    just need the time to
 > >
 > >play with the new stuff..
 > >
 > >Scot D
 >
 >
 > ---
 > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Surfside Internet]
 >
 >