Progress... or lack thereof
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:09 pm
Hello everyone,
Around six months ago I stopped working on the fusor to pursue other projects, so everything has pretty much just been boxed up and placed out of sight. Yesterday through I decided to get off my lazy ass and do something, so I can get this project moving forward like it should. In the meantime, the only thing I've accomplished is to get more vacuum gauges and turbo pumps, two of which are too big to be of any use (even if I could get my hands on their elusive controllers). Other than that, I managed to catch the x-ray transformer on fire. Funny enough it still works (with some minor burn marks).
At the moment I'm mounting the main chamber to a temporary wood frame with some industrial pipe clamps. After the rest of the parts are installed and the design finalized I'll change that to a square steel frame:
Moving forward, it should go something like this:
1. Temp frame, rest of vacuum chamber parts
2. Vacuum testing, making sure everything functions as it should
3. Test grid installed, testing reactor as demo fusor w/ 3kv supply
4. Finish & test the xrt supply, assemble the dueterium electrolysis assembly
5. If electrolysis doesn't work well, I'll try to get a lecture bottle through my college.
6. Fusion testing w/ xrt supply and deuterium
I'll have more updates in the coming days and weeks as I put this thing together.
Joshua Turbyfill
Around six months ago I stopped working on the fusor to pursue other projects, so everything has pretty much just been boxed up and placed out of sight. Yesterday through I decided to get off my lazy ass and do something, so I can get this project moving forward like it should. In the meantime, the only thing I've accomplished is to get more vacuum gauges and turbo pumps, two of which are too big to be of any use (even if I could get my hands on their elusive controllers). Other than that, I managed to catch the x-ray transformer on fire. Funny enough it still works (with some minor burn marks).
At the moment I'm mounting the main chamber to a temporary wood frame with some industrial pipe clamps. After the rest of the parts are installed and the design finalized I'll change that to a square steel frame:
Moving forward, it should go something like this:
1. Temp frame, rest of vacuum chamber parts
2. Vacuum testing, making sure everything functions as it should
3. Test grid installed, testing reactor as demo fusor w/ 3kv supply
4. Finish & test the xrt supply, assemble the dueterium electrolysis assembly
5. If electrolysis doesn't work well, I'll try to get a lecture bottle through my college.
6. Fusion testing w/ xrt supply and deuterium
I'll have more updates in the coming days and weeks as I put this thing together.
Joshua Turbyfill