[time-nuts] Fw: Rubidium Lamp PIX

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 14:38:23 UTC 2012


Chuck hit the nail on the head. Thats what I have done and it restores the
bulbs nicely.
I have seen both the darkened area and actually a silver-ish glob that when
heat moved around and finally evaporated.
Paul
WB8TSL

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Chuck Harris <cfharris at erols.com> wrote:

> Should be easy enough for you to figure out.  The idea is to
> evaporate any rubidium that is blocking the light from leaving
> the bulb and making a straight path to the filter cell, and
> ultimately the detector end of the package. Look at the bulb
> on the side where the light must exit, and if it is shiny
> and black, heat it there until it clears.
>
> -Chuck Harris
>
>
> Don Latham wrote:
>
>> this would be even better with some arrows showing where to put the heat
>> to heal the lamp!
>> Don
>>
>> cdelect at juno.com
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is a PIX of various Rubidium lamps.
>>>
>>> >From the left top,
>>>
>>> Tracor  EG&G  LPRO   5065A   R20   FRS   PRS10
>>>
>>> bottom two are FRK
>>>
>>> I'll see if Tom Van Baak will add them to his site
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