Clean out @ work

[John Futter]

Pity to see this stuff going to the recyclers. Not alot of metal in there but plenty of glass.
pic 1 A new one thats going home with me
pic2 a bunch of old racks from our control room and dumped spare new and used accelerator tubes

[Steven Sesselmann]

John,

You are not seriously throwing out all those accelerator tubes ???

Can you keep one for me?


Steven

[Dennis P Brown]

Just wondering what all those short/long and in between size accelerator tubes were used for? Looks like you could have supplied a few dozen builders of ESLA projects. Some of us building ESLA (such as me) are in shock looking at that picture - just cruel (lol.)

[John Futter]

Dennis
each tube weighs around a hundred pounds or more due to the glass.
Shipping from here would be prohibitive.
There was an assortment of electron and ion type tubes in the mix, all were aluminium / pyrex glass construction with each tube designed for around 3MeV.
all gone now recyclers picked up the skip this morning.

I sympathise but there were no takers when advertised.

[Jeroen Vriesman]

shocking.... why not just sell them?

[Jeroen Vriesman]

I see your answer crossed my question... it still hurts.

I recently made a complete spot welder from things which were thrown away at my work, everything for free

[George Dowell]

Everywhere I worked had registered "trash". It was shreded.
Papers were shreded on the site. More like pulverized to dust.

George Dowell