[time-nuts] Dead 5061B

[jimlux]

On 11/8/19 2:25 PM, paul swed wrote:
> Hello to the group.
> A few years back Skip took apart a 5061 CS tube. Took the best pictures
> with detail that has ever been posted. I really learned about the internal
> details from his effort.
> Tom kindly found the links re-posted here.
> 
> http://lists.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts_lists.febo.com/2016-October/083806.html
> 
> The entire thread is interesting:
> 
> http://lists.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts_lists.febo.com/2016-October/date.html#end
> 
> In a off thread email we discussed the possibility of reattaching the
> ionizer. Please look at the ionizer picture and you will see why that will
> not work. Unlike a classic light bulb with tight coils of filament and
> droop for expansion and contraction the ionizer is a straight tight ribbon.
> When it pops material gets vaporized or simply falls away. There is no
> material to by chance reattach.
> 
> Granted there is nothing to lose by tinkering around its dead and in
> reality thats what a Time-nut does.
> 
> The very best of luck to you Jim and though your CS may be dead its been
> great to read others help and guidance.
> 

Totally ignorant of how these things work inside, but is the "ionizer" 
just a heater, or is it more like the cathode of a vacuum tube?