On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:02:09 +0100 (BST), ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony
Duell) wrote:
Oh, I have one, but it's only a little 1cm radius one, designed mainly
for detecting the helium peak when looking for leaks. What I don't have is
a suitable vacuum pump (yet...)
You might be interested in this site (sorry it's a Web site with
pictures and so on, some of it will probably be readable using Lynx, and
it's in French to boot, I'm sure it would interest you however):
http://paillard.claude.free.fr/
He makes his own triode valves (or tubes, for those of us who speak the
other language known as English ;-) ) and in order to do that he has
designed and built among other things his own high vacuum pumps. I'm
sure you would be able to make one like his.
/Jonas