Saturday, March 3, 2012

Bausch and Lomb Mercury Arc UV source and monochromator

This is a Bausch and Lomb High Intensity Monochromator with an SP-200 UV Mercury arc source.

Monochromator is catalog # 33-86-75.  Grating has 2700 lines / inch.

Operating, output set to 170nm, flash photo

 Lamp operating full intensity, output set to 300nm
 Output set to 300nm
 Operating full intensity 300nm
 Power supply SP-200
 Power supply SP-200
 Interior of source, showing lamp and choke assembly
Choke / concentrator has quartz optics, two elements
to concentrate beam from Lamp.
 Closer up to Lamp
Lamp envelope.  arc starting electrode is
on opposite side of the envelope.  There is only
the high voltage connected to the top and
bottom.  Other arc starting electrode on
opposite side has no connection, but is
open to air to allow arc at lower starting
voltage (I think)

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Lindberg GT-200 model kit

These are photos of both the kit I have, and one previously on epay.

first, the box with my kit


Partially built up kit
following are a partially built model, not as far along as the one I got

 the bottom left part usually has the top part of the molding broken due to an injection molding problem.  of the SC100's I have 2 are broken two are not.
 interior parts




 the sprue's have a lot of parts still mounted on this kit from epay




Another kit, even more pristine








 why do they alwasy mess with the engine
more GT-200 material