[time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 184, Issue 13

[paul swed]

Hi Dan at least the pictures I have seen are that the ionizer is a thin
ribbon. I have not seen a filament style ionizer for cesium beam tubes.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:16 PM Dan Kemppainen <dan at irtelemetrics.com>
wrote:

> So,
>
> If I'm interpreting the pictures correctly, It appears the hot wire
> ionizer wire is spring loaded. It would probably take a significant
> impact to spring that back enough for the wire to weld back with any
> sort of discharge.
>
> It may be possible, but most likely not very easy to do. Although these
> pictures give an indication of what direction one would have to try hit
> it...
>
> Dan
>
>
> On 11/9/2019 12:00 PM, time-nuts-request at lists.febo.com wrote:
> > Message: 7
> > Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 17:25:55 -0500
> > From: paul swed<paulswedb at gmail.com>
> > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> >       <time-nuts at lists.febo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Dead 5061B
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> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > WB8TSL
>
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