04-01-2026, 12:59 AM
Mr. Fix;
A bit off topic but a few years ago I was watching some videos of home experimenters who would go to scrapyards, around London England, and but old X ray machines, not to generate X rays, but for the high voltage power supplies in them some more then 100 KV. It was interesting to see how they were put together, it was through watching those that I identified a mystery tube I had that I got in a box of junk from a HAM auction.
Speaking of radiology, what do they use for the large coils in an MRI machine? Is it copper wire inside that donut or aluminum? They look like they are quite heavy, like large machine tool heavy.
Regards
Arran
A bit off topic but a few years ago I was watching some videos of home experimenters who would go to scrapyards, around London England, and but old X ray machines, not to generate X rays, but for the high voltage power supplies in them some more then 100 KV. It was interesting to see how they were put together, it was through watching those that I identified a mystery tube I had that I got in a box of junk from a HAM auction.
Speaking of radiology, what do they use for the large coils in an MRI machine? Is it copper wire inside that donut or aluminum? They look like they are quite heavy, like large machine tool heavy.
Regards
Arran




