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Good price on the isopropyl alcohol, but hazmat shipping could be expensive. Note, however, that it is out of stock there; zero quantity available for shipping.

This is a bit off topic, but if it is possible that any good might come from the pandemic, a lot of people will be confined to stay home and need something to do. We might expect this to lead to people having time to get back to long neglected fusor projects, so we might see a flurry of new activity...

LDS says on their web page that they have free ground shipping for orders over $75. If they charged you for a $100 order, you should call them on it. They formerly offered free shipping to a university address, but changed it a while back to the same $75 minimum order. I’m not happy with their shipp...

Hotta's group in Japan did considerable study of this subject in a cylindrical fusor and reported their results at the US-Japan IEC Workshop in College Park, MD, in 2012. Unfortunately, the web site where the presentations at that meeting were posted has since been taken down. They used mutiple coil...

A batch of the Universal Voltronics XRC-60-60N -60kV, 60mA power supplies appeared on the used market several years ago when Panalytical switched to using Spellmann supplies in their x-ray equipment and sold off their spares. Being negative polarity supplies with voltage and current suitable for fus...

Richard, LDS has your needed adapter for $84.00.

You can buy a refrigeration pump at your local Harbor Freight in Warwick. You are not going to get 10-5 Torr with a mechanical pump.

Any success on achieving this polarity conversion?

The last time I bought deuterium (about two years ago), Cambridge Isotope Laboratories had the best price. They currently list their lowest purity deuterium (98.8%) at $314 for 50 liters. They also offer a 25 liter size for $167. This does not include the shipping charge.

When I click on the link, it takes me to the University of Maryland Authentication Services and asks for a U.Md. password.