The Master..

If this does not leave you speechless, there is something wrong with you..
click on la video...
enjoy:

http://paillard.claude.free.fr/

http://paillard.claude.free.fr/photos.pdf

please realize he built the pumps, too.

Steve

im speechless... (when have you ever heard me speechless?)

I personally would have gone to Radio Shack (kidding aside)

he is an artist of the highest degree, and this art will be lost in the future, how does anybody figure it out first, that is what blows me away.

I've had the materials since I was 18, but my hand pinched stuff never looked anything like that.... Because I had no tooling. I was trying to use refrige compressors in reverse. Then I tried charcoal based sorption pumps with dry ice. I could get things to glow, but steady operation was out of the question. I was 22 before I got my hands on a real roughing pump. It took me till I was 30 just to get my hands on the turbopump...

Still, Wow..


Steve

I posted that about a year ago. Totally amazing. Looks like he made most of the tools himself, vacuum pump included!

Oh, If you think that's cool.... Check this guy out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUMDY01uUA

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Originally Posted by 300EVIL

I posted that about a year ago. Totally amazing. Looks like he made most of the tools himself, vacuum pump included!

Oh, If you think that's cool.... Check this guy out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUMDY01uUA

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I knew I had seen that before, yes I want a glass lathe, and full lab! Too bad I don't even have a place to even setup my torch and kiln at the moment (in time, in time). Thanks for the link Steve it was worth watching a second time!

-Adam

yes, well-known artisan (artist would also fit here)

sadly I had the opportunity to get hold on all the tools and materials for that kind of work (quartz tubes, electrodes, everything you may find in such glasswork) but I never had time to arrange on that :(

anyway, I wouldn't have the time needed to practice...

he would be able to make some pretty HeNe tubes (or small argons)

he would be able to make some pretty HeNe tubes (or small argons)[/QUOTE]

His tooling is for soda-line, and the seals are dumet. IT would be a really short lived hene..

You also note he does not put getters in his tubes.. Short life..

Steve

maybe he is not aware of that, or just want to make some nice artefacts

he still has skills for glassworking

i saw this video a while ago, was linked from one of the many audio boards, cant remember which one... its a beautiful video, sure they are not commercial grade, but to see someone make something like that from bits of metal and glass, its quite awe inspiring... I personally love tubes, working on a tube amplifier for my electrostatic headphones

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Originally Posted by shrad

yes, well-known artisan (artist would also fit here)

sadly I had the opportunity to get hold on all the tools and materials for that kind of work (quartz tubes, electrodes, everything you may find in such glasswork) but I never had time to arrange on that :(

anyway, I wouldn't have the time needed to practice...

he would be able to make some pretty HeNe tubes (or small argons)

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I would love to have a tiny argon, even if it only makes a few mW (if even) it would be such a cool toy to have on my desk lol