I may be missing something (as I often do) but why not just buy some cesium? About ten bucks a gram for high-purity metal in glass ampoules.
On Wednesday, November 2, 2016, Peter Reilley <[email protected]> wrote: > Just throwing this out: would it be possible recover the cesium by heating > the tube but cooling it near where the reservior is? This might cause the > cesium to migrate in that direction and some of it end up in the reservior? > > Pete. > > On 11/2/2016 11:38 AM, paul swed wrote: > >> Oh yes and guess which tubes we find? The 40 year olds at ham prices. :-) >> At least thats what I have. >> Like your comment as so far what I have learned is that seems like other >> things going on. >> I sort of believe its C pollution of things like the ionizer and even the >> photo tube elements over time. Its a curiosity without much of a way to >> prove it. >> >> Regards >> Paul >> WB8TSL >> >> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> This has probably been covered here before, but, at least going >>> to the 5071A, now 25 years ago!, all CBT's, whether high >>> performance or not, have the same amount of cesium inside. >>> This means that the standard performance (never call it >>> "low" performance) CBT has enough cesium to last 30 years! >>> Thus for those tubes, we can rule out cesium replenishment >>> even if it were possible. >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> >>> On 11/1/2016 8:38 PM, Mark Sims wrote: >>> >>> You mean I can't just drill a hole in, wash out the old cesium with some >>>> tap water ;-), toss in some new cesium, suck out the air, bung a cork >>>> in >>>> the hole, and call it a day? Drat! foiled again... >>>> >>>> --------------- >>>> >>>> Because it's not that easy. We are talking about a high vacuum system >>>> >>>>> here. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m >>>> ailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>>> and follow the instructions there. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m >>> ailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m >> ailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m > ailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- If you gaze long into an abyss, your coffee will get cold. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
