When bolting-up the tube sockets for the GU-84b’s

I could tell they were some doozies.

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Cleaning the silver metal without removing

it from plated instead of solid metal contact

areas required a toothbrush and a pile or two

of Kool-Amp silver plating powder to get the

‘low hanging fruit’ acceptable.

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The big surprise for me were these green glazed

oblong-shaped capacitors with silver metal flat

contacts on each end. They formed a circle around

one of the concentric parts of the sockets.

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The grid port, going back through the neutralizing Breuhne bridge

is bypassed, or perhaps better named as “loaded” with a non-inductive

450 ohm, 50 watt 1% resistor that can easily be replaced

or removed as the neutralizing process is analyzed on the bench.

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With the cost of all these little specialized pieces taking longer to

agree with myself that the purchase will probably be useful has

gauged my efforts in getting this project ‘hot’ and making satellite

contacts on 10m.

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This is why, looking at the 500MW nuclear reactor experiment

elsewhere, I wonder who performed the calculations for each

and every component, and how did the design choice fare on

a peer review for viability, feasibility and reasonability?

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Hal

W4HBM

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