Video: Making a Vacuum Tube By Hand
Here's a fascinating video of a man who hand-makes all the parts of these triode vacuum tubes set to a becalming piano soundtrack. Wonderful stuff!
FABRICATION D'UNE LAMPE TRIODE [Dailymotion.Alice.it]
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I watched the whole thing in awestruck fascination. Possibly the coolest video I've ever seen online, ever.
Yeah, but can he make a transistor?
That is pure art. I love watching stuff like that
pure porn, for makers
You guys might also like the glass blowing projects documented at Teralab.
The guy is definitely quite old (*), he learnt to do this at a time when you HAD to wind your own filaments - and you were happy about it! :)
I guess nobody learns this complete skill set today
(*) Old = Look at the hands, but also the guy's homepage, in French, http://paillard.claude.free.fr/, he became ham-operator "F2FO" in 1959, radio geek amongst others re-creating radios from the 1920s
http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaillard.claude.free.fr%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8
Does anyone know what the old-fashioned welding tool he uses is called?
Beautiful, abso-smurfly cool!!! Was I mistaken, or did he inject mercury at the tail end of the video? Nice X-tal set as well. Thanks for the link!
The tool I believe you are referring to is a spot welder.
Thanks Anonymous. I found an article in French on his website about the design of the spot welder: http://paillard.claude.free.fr/triodes/soudage/soudage.html . He made it himself using the structural components from what I think is a small 1920's riveting press ('nous avons reconverti une petite presse à sertir des années vingt'). It looks rather neat!
Coincidentally, that video is Ted Stevens' notion of an ISP.
The most beautiful thing I have ever seen. The genesis of all I hold dear being born before my very eyes.
I'd like to think he's an electrical engineer.