Re: A simple way to MAKE x-rays????

[lavelyp@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Paul Lavely)]

As I remember the article on how to build one of these home-made x-ray
units was in the "Amateur Scientist" section of Scientific American in the
1960's. It used an A1A tube to produce the x-rays and a TV high-voltage
power supply as the source of HV.

It looked easy, but I never built one.


Paul Lavely
RSO UC Berkeley
510-643-7976

>Good afternoon,
>
>Another posting regarding a simple way to measure X-rays has prompted me
>to ask
>a related question.
>
>I recall that several years ago, I ran across a reference to a simple
>device to
>create X-rays as a demonstration.  Apparently, one used a certain type of
>vacuum tube that would generate X-rays rather handily (at detectable, but
>relative low levels).
>
>Such a device would be very useful to us in our training program, but alas, I
>have not been able to find any detailed instructions on how to construct
>such a
>demonstration unit.
>
>Do any of you remember working with such a device, and if so, where can I find
>the assembly instructions for one?  (This is the type of thing one would find
>in Popular Electronics in the early 60's, I would think).
>
>Jim Barnes, Certified Health Physicist
>Radiation Safety Officer
>Rocketdyne Division; Boeing North American