[time-nuts] R&S XSRM Rubidium

[paul swed]

Did you use a large heat gun or the smaller ones for heat shrink.
I might guess the smaller one
Thanks

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Magnus Danielson <
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Paul,
>
>
> On 11/01/11 19:57, paul swed wrote:
>
>> Crazier question could it be baked in an oven or must you be able to
>> carefully visually watch it?
>>
>
> I guess you could do that if you only can oriented it there. However, I
> just wanted to play a bit safe and not overheat it... and then I did warm it
> up quite a bit anyway. Contaminating my lab with rubidium and glas splitter
> seems easier to handle than the oven and kitchen... but I don't think it is
> much of a danger anyway...
>
>
>  On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:53 PM, paul swed<paulswedb at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>  Magnus
>>> Crazy question. Though the small rb references are difficult to
>>> disassemble
>>> they can be. I believe I have seen what you describe. Might this
>>> technique
>>> be used on those also. I have a flaky end of life old telco reference
>>> that I
>>> would open up to try it on. Though no heat gun.
>>>
>>
> Well, a heat gun isn't a huge investment but it came in handy for this. If
> you seem the same thing, then try it and see if you get it operating again.
> I did actually learn this trick from a description for a smaller rubidium
> than I tried it on.
>
>
>  Does the RB really become exhausted or does it plate to the glass like you
>>> describe?
>>>
>>
> Well, it did not escape from the glas ampule, so it is still safe there.
> Rubidium by itself doesn't need to be a lot in there to work, but Xeon might
> escape. However, temperature and trimming of the RF source should be checked
> first... before giving up on the lamp.
>
>  Thanks for the thread.
>>>
>>
> Well, I tough that someone would get inspired. Seems to have triggered two
> so far.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
> _______________________________________________
> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
> To unsubscribe, go to
> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
> and follow the instructions there.
>