THE MICROWAVE OVEN You can usually get a throw away microwave oven for free. If you did a search on repairing your microwave oven, you'd find out that the transformer makes about 2000 VAC. The circuit effectively doubles that with the help of the capacitor, and makes it 4000VDC and less than .4 amps.
Ground each terminal of the capacitor to the chassis with a screwdriver to ensure it's bled of power.(CAVEAT: danger-high voltage) Unhook the magnetron. 90% of the time that is the part that fails in the oven.You can remove it if you want to get two good magnets for magnet therapy. Now you have 2 wires. Thread your electrode set wires back toward the circuit. You may like to wrap some tape around the wire where it goes through the hole (safety against mechanical damage). I also removed the stirrer housing from inside the oven and threw it away. One wire, the one that leads from the transformer, is the preheat wire for the magnetron. Ignore it. The wire that leads from the capacitor goes to the silver maker, the side you don't want to use up. Your GOOD silver electrode wire gets joined to the chassis. That's the side you'll be using silver from. It seems strange at first, that the electrode you want to use up is the side hooked to chassis. Disconnect the fan because you won't need it any more. I left everything else as it was and turned the microwave on its side. Here's a great clue...buy 9999 silver as a 1 oz. INGOT and get someone to roll it out for you. Then it's long enough to use in a jar, and cheap enough too. The silver ingot is about $10. The rod doesn't even have to be silver as it's only receiving DC. THE SILVER MAKER You must hold the electrodes apart with plastic parts. Cut a 3" ellipse from a junk plastic lid and make 1/4" notches for the silver ingot in one side, and properly spaced hole in the other for the rod. I used about 2" for spacing. Cut 1/4" notches in both ends of the silver ingot about 1/4" from each side. Cut a similar slot and hole pattern onto the cut off bottom of a cottage cheese or plastic honey container. Slide the ingot through the slot and bend it over your electrical wire, crimp with pliers. You can bend the 'lid end' of the ingot so it lies flat against the lid. Slide the rod through the hole, bend an inch about 90 degrees and connect with a marrett from the hardware store. Bend the center section of other end (you previously slotted) of the ingot back to expose the tabs to bend over that oval piece . Slide the other end of the rod into the other side of the oval piece. Tape the "lid" so things don't move around. I used clear box tape. Now you have a secure and evenly-spaced holder for the electrodes. Have at 'er. The timer still works and you can literally churn out several gallons per hour. It took about 30 min to build it bercause I'd never looked inside a microwave before. ****************************** -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
