Tube Demo Cell Pictures

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I have gotten alot of emails asking about the tube cell being tuned or matched for mass.IMHO the tube cell was just a lot of radom length pieces thrown together.I have stated this before.So here a a couple of pictures that just prove my point.
Don

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Thanks Dynodon, always great to see the original stuff.

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Looks like a junkyard of tubes to me as wel, Dynodon!
Nothing special calculated tubes over there.

Thanks for posting!

Steve

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it is 30 years old remember, and the special stuff is in the vic

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each outer tube has 2 slots thats odd
 

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Two slots is intriging....

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Also intriguing is the yellowish color that is already perceptible in the old videos...And Interesting that inside the inside tube too, I think is a kind of resin water resistant to enclose the electric field only in the middle between the tubes. I tried to do here but i used transformer insulation liquid, they became yellow too but in the water its color changes become white brown.


The other cool thing is that he made it in such way that he could disassembly it.


I noticed a tube of the diameter of the outer tubes under the base of the inner tubes.. whats that?


I heard that some one said it was a piezoelectric oscillator or something like this...


Thanks a lot Don

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sebosfato,
that isn't a tube in the center under the plate,it's a piece of stainless bar stock that is used for the negative wire hook up.It has a hole drilled and tapped in the center.There was an "O" ring that went between it and the bottom of the cell,to seal the bolt that went out the bottom.I took it apart because it was leaking,so I replaced the "O" ring.Thats why I took it apart,just took pics while I was at it.
The color of the tubes is from the brown scum that comes out of the water when runing it.Over time it discolored the tubes.It does come off if you rub it.
Don