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Richard, Have you considered a thin layer of rhodium plating? There are various rhodium plating services available for jewelry at affordable prices.

I looked at this listing out of curiosity. It appears to be a ferrite core transformer with four independent sections that are wired in series. Building a fusor supply from this transformer would not be a trivial undertaking.

The seven papers in the special issue of the Journal of Plasma Physics are available online with open access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/collections/status-of-the-sparc-physics-basis Much of the content of these papers is beyond my level of understanding, but t...

If you read the NYT article carefully, you will see that they just published seven peer reviewed papers in the Journal of Plasma Physics that support their design. I am painfully aware of the difference between a computer model and real hardware, but they have gone much further than most fusion comp...

This is a very interesting description of this early fusor. Something I’ve not seen before was his use of the secondary of a neon transformer as a high voltage inductive filter.

This has been discussed previously at length. Search “water as a neutron shield.”

Frank
The paper you list is a 2005 report by Taleyarkhan and others. The Purdue investigation which found him guilty of misconduct was in 2008. The sonoluminescence effect is real; one can see that, but I’m not aware of any substantiating evidence for sonofusion.

It is my understanding that the claims of sonofusion have been found to be false. An investigation of Taleyarkhan at Purdue found him guilty of research misconduct and his funding agency (Office of Naval Research) barred him from further funding. Is there something more recent that suggests this can...

Loctite Hysol 1C. It has been discussed at length on this forum in the vacuum FAQ’s.

Vac-Torr is a high vacuum epoxy seal that is designed for high vacuum use. There is a less expensive Loctite product that is an equivalent formulation, but the number escapes me at the moment. Anyone else remember?