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    Default Do I want this?

    Someone please talk me out of this:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/LASER-IONICS-IND...d=p3286.c0.m14

    But the gas cylinder intrigues me...

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    I wouldn't , Anything from 1986 is just a little too old for me. If you could get it for 50.00 yes but try talking the guy down a bit. Even then who knows if the tube is any good or PS. See if you can have the guy fire it up for you !!
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    I'd say go for it !!!

    it's a coherent innova-type long argon tube

    plus it is an ophtalmic system, so you might have low hours on low power use

    if you happen to be able to check the tube yourself, that might be a win!

    psu, tube, gas bottle, etc... I'd be near that beast I'd try to get it

    but be sure the tube is intact

    EDIT: long tubes like that one, even from end of the 80's or early 90's, when properly reworked, are worth more than $5000 in the scientific equipment surplus

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    its a laser ionics head.

    Does like 13 watts when they work, but it is a tungsten disk quartz and glass tube. VERY fragile, and there is glass underneath the laser for the fill system. The glassblower litterally made the tube around the resonator, they are not removable. Get the excellent coherent fieldmaster power meter that is attached to the system. The attached tank is nitrogen. It fires into a cheap fiber mount. The power supply is a monster SCR based switcher.

    But that laser has to haul air ride, lifted by hand, or the glass breaks,. DO NOT SHIP IT ON THAT CART.

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    It is a laser ionics 50XX series

    Does like 13 watts when they work, but it is a tungsten disk quartz and glass tube. VERY fragile, and there is glass underneath the laser for the fill system. The glassblower litterally made the tube around the resonator, they are not removable. Get the excellent coherent fieldmaster power meter that is attached to the system. The attached tank is nitrogen. It fires into a cheap fiber mount. The power supply is a monster SCR based switcher.

    But that laser has to haul air ride, lifted by hand, or the glass breaks,. DO NOT SHIP IT ON THAT CART.


    If you go after it, take a pickup truck and a sheet of plywood and some strapping, the black part of the laser setting on the red cart frame has exposed glass in its bottom.

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