[Boatanchors] Crystal sets

[Glenn Little]

When I made a crystal mount for a friend, I used a spent .45 
cartridge that I cut down as a container.
I bought some Wood's metal and used that to mount the crystal
I used some flux and a soldering iron to melt the Wood's metal in the 
cartridge case.
While still hot, I placed a piece of galena in the center.
When the Wood's metal cooled, I cleaned the excess flux in the container.

I found the lower melting temperature of the Wood's metal to be the 
recommended holder for the crystal as the crystal has less chance if 
fracturing from heat.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV




At 10:13 PM 7/30/2014, Al Klase wrote:
>Gang,
>
>Solder work just fine if you have enough heat to do it quickly.
>
>See my site:  http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/Detectors/Mounting.htm
>
>Build a crystal set!  It's good four your soul!
>
>Al
>
>Al Klase -- N3FRQ
>Jersey City, NJ
>http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>
>On 7/30/2014 9:51 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
>>actually I  hear  solder can kill the galina      I head something 
>>about woods  metal to  sink it in?
>>All ledgend...   as  mine   came imbeded already
>>In a message dated 7/30/2014 5:54:13 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, 
>>flowertime01 at wmconnect.com writes:
>
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