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CRT book by Keller
John Griessen
The coketron, a CRT made from a coke bottle, made me smile her in Albuquerque...
-- John Griessen -- building lab gear for biologists
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Glydeck
I had to get my copy of the book and check it out. On Page 24...
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"To illustrate the extremes in materials that have been used for CRT envelopes, almost every CRT lab has at one time or another fabricated a "Coketron" made from that one glass envelope that always seemed to be present in any lab, the Coca-Cola™ bottle. A little phosphor settled in the bottom and an electron gun sealed to the neck results in an operable CRT that never ceases to amuse lab visitors."
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Roy Thistle
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:49 PM, Glydeck wrote:
There is a bad photo of Peter's artifact... and as Peter claims... '... results in an operable CRT..." [pg. 24] But given that it was "operable," what did it do? Peter doesn't say?
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Tom Lee
Your question baffles me, Roy. If someone were to hand you a non-Coke bottle crt, would you ask, "Yeah, but what does it do?"
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It's a crt. Made out of a Coke bottle, yes, but a crt nonetheless. Tom -- Prof. Thomas H. Lee Allen Ctr., Rm. 205 350 Jane Stanford Way Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4070 http://www-smirc.stanford.edu
On 1/14/2021 12:09, Roy Thistle wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:49 PM, Glydeck wrote:check it outThere is a bad photo of Peter's artifact... and as Peter claims... '... results in an operable CRT..." [pg. 24]
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Tom,
I actually have the same question as Roy. There are "CRTs" that merely illuminate the entire face of the tube, and others that have some limited amount of control over the illumination (e.g. the 6E5 tuning eye, or DM160 "Magic-Eye" indicator tubes). It is not clear from the description that the "coketron" was able to scan the beam, or whether it merely caused the end of the tube to illuminate like these Russian ILD3-K tubes (https://www.ebay.com/itm/ILD3-K-P590-ULTRARARE-VINTAGE-CRT-VFD-INDICATOR-TUBE-for-DIY-and-education/112031678404). My copy of Peter Keller's book has not arrived, so I am speaking from a certain depth of ignorance. -- Jeff Dutky
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Chuck Harris <cfharris@...>
Originally, the cathode ray tube, was a device to project
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"cathode rays" at a phosphor screen... possibly with some object (Maltese Cross) in between. As I understand the description of the Coketron, it has something like one of the ubiquitous 5UP1 gun assemblies in the neck, and no internal deflection plates. So, you should be able to focus the beam, and with a magnet do experiments with magnetic deflection of said beam. -Chuck Harris Jeff Dutky wrote:
Tom,
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Chuck,
That's what I figured. The neck of a Coke bottle is pretty narrow to get much of a mechanism through. -- Jef Dutky
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Tom Lee
The Coketron actually has no components inside the Coke bottle. It takes what I believe is a 1EP1, sans screen, and mates it to a Coke bottle. It actually has deflection plates (at least, that’s what I recall from visiting Vintagetek, where they have one on display), so it has all the guts of an electrostatically deflected scope crt.
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I never saw one light up, though. —Cheers, Tom Sent from my iThing, so please forgive typos and brevity.
On Jan 14, 2021, at 3:47 PM, Jeff Dutky <jeff.dutky@gmail.com> wrote:
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n4buq
Maybe a dumb question, but did they pull a vacuum on the coke bottle?
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Thanks, Barry - N4BUQ
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From: "Tom Lee" <tomlee@ee.stanford.edu> The Coketron actually has no components inside the Coke bottle. It takes what I never saw one light up, though. —Cheers, Sent from my iThing, so please forgive typos and brevity. On Jan 14, 2021, at 3:47 PM, Jeff Dutky <jeff.dutky@gmail.com> wrote:
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Tom Lee
Not a dumb question at all! These were (supposed to be) working crts, so they pulled a vacuum. In the picture in Pete's book, though, there's no visible close-off nipple. I also don't see a getter, so the cathode didn't have a long life. But I would still want one (lit up and showing a trace, of course).
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--Tom -- Prof. Thomas H. Lee Allen Ctr., Rm. 205 350 Jane Stanford Way Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4070 http://www-smirc.stanford.edu
On 1/14/2021 19:01, n4buq wrote:
Maybe a dumb question, but did they pull a vacuum on the coke bottle?
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Roy Thistle
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:20 PM, Tom Lee wrote:
No... but if it was claimed to be an "operable" Coketron, I would. (... a topic which is apparently broached in subsequent posts.)
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Harvey White
so if you make one, and it doesn't work?
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is it a coketron zero? Harvey
On 1/14/2021 11:05 PM, Roy Thistle wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:20 PM, Tom Lee wrote:If someone were to hand you a non-Coke bottle crt, would you ask, "Yeah, but what does it do?"No... but if it was claimed to be an "operable" Coketron, I would. (... a topic which is apparently broached in subsequent posts.)
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Dave Seiter
Groan........
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On Thursday, January 14, 2021, 08:29:24 PM PST, Harvey White <madyn@dragonworks.info> wrote:
so if you make one, and it doesn't work? is it a coketron zero? Harvey On 1/14/2021 11:05 PM, Roy Thistle wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:20 PM, Tom Lee wrote:If someone were to hand you a non-Coke bottle crt, would you ask, "Yeah, but what does it do?"No... but if it was claimed to be an "operable" Coketron, I would. (... a topic which is apparently broached in subsequent posts.)
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