Re: magnetron tubes?

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Original poster: "Matthew Smith by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <matt-at-kbc-dot-net.au>

Hi Peter, All

There are a couple of small, cylindrical ferrite cores just inside the 
"box" where the two terminals are; these form the centre of a couple of 
chokes on the heater supply.

The main "treasure" from MO magnetrons is the magnets themselves - nice, 
strong, ferrite ring magnets.  Be careful not to chip or otherwise break 
them when removing.

For disassembly, I tend to angle-grind the lugs that hold the "business" 
end together.  It will then all pull apart with care.

If nothing else, they make the strongest fridge magnets that you'll get 
without forking out for rare earth magnets ;-)  Of course, you could 
experiment with them with magnetic gap quenching.  (See recent posts on 
this subject).

I would advise against using magnetrons as magnetrons unless you know 
your microwave construction techniques really well; HV may be dangerous, 
but microwaves are far more subtle and insidious.  The first thing that 
you could know is that your corneas are cooked and you can't see any more...

Cheers

Matthew Smith

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Peter Lawrence by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Peter.Lawrence-at-Sun-dot-com>
> 
> 
> OK, now that I have some Microwave Oven Transformers for a TC power supply, I
> also have some magnetron tubes, isn't there anything we can use these for
> (besides generating microwaves), I hate to throw out something potentially
> useful?
> 
> -Peter Lawrence
>