New IBM ETEC LaB6 Cathodes Cheap

From: Jeff Miller <cornheadorama@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:05:22 GMT

Hi,

I recently found a cache of LaB6 cathodes for an IBM ETEC scope. I haven't bought any yet and don't have full details, but each comes in a container pressurized with dry N2. They have large (3-4") flanges about 1/8" thick. They seem to have Wehnelts attached.

They'd be about $75 each. Maybe less if interest is high and I make an offer on the whole lot.

I'll be buying a few and trying to adapt them for use with my scopes: likely cutting out the center of the flanges and clipping them onto a dead filament.

Come to think of it, given the elaborate packaging they might be FE sources.

Let me know if you'd like more information.

-Jeff
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