Original poster: "D.C. Cox" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>Pay the price --- get it down professionally --- your eyes (flying debris from sharp tungsten) shards are just not worth the risk. Your eye is certainly worth more than the few hundred dollars it will cost to get it done right the first time. A high speed RSG is simply no place to take unneccessary risk of injury.
Dr. Resonance
> Original poster: "D.C. Cox": > > For rotary sparkgaps press the 1/2 dia. x 1.5 inch long brass rod > axially thru the G-10 by having a machine shop do it. They use a > precision reamer than reams .0005" undersize and then the press fit > using an arbor press is very tight. How about putting the electrodes in the freezer (or on dry ice) to contract them up enough so that they fit into the holes while they are cold? Jon