Coil under electron microscope

[opticruby]

Very interesting post @Alien Traveler. Very cool pics too.

 

[dbrandt01]

More cool pictures @Alien Traveler! THANKS!!!


Perhaps you missed @Alien Traveler's other cool thread: Cotton Under Electron Microscope

You're right I did miss that one. Thanks for posting it.

 

[HauntedMyst]

This is my blood when I get angry.

 

[Racehorse]

Awesome stuff, AT!

how old were you when you got your first "childs" microscope?

I sure remember mine! I think the first slide my brothers and I did was, of course, skin cells. LOL Of course, those science kits were pretty elementary back in the "olden days" .

 

[Alien Traveler]

Awesome stuff, AT!

how old were you when you got your first "childs" microscope?

I sure remember mine! I think the first slide my brothers and I did was, of course, skin cells. LOL Of course, those science kits were pretty elementary back in the "olden days" .

I saved from my allowance, bought microscope and said I found it on the street. Do not remember my age, but hope it was less than eleven - otherwise I should admit I was too dumb at older age.

 

[nancybout]

This bugged me out the coil one anyways lol yikes

 

[caramel]

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I saved from my allowance, bought microscope and said I found it on the street. Do not remember my age, but hope it was less than eleven - otherwise I should admit I was too dumb at older age.

Such a nice guy. I remember being busy inking the school's microscope eyepiece. Classmates with blue circles around their eyes -> priceless.

 

[Robino1]

But very often I think I should put a wire brush to it.

I don't know how much good it does but I use a dental brush on my coils after dry burning them.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Amazon.com : Dentek Easy Brush Interdental Cleaners, 16 Count (Pack of 6) : Flossing Products : Beauty

 

[Iffy]

Amazon.com : Dentek Easy Brush Interdental Cleaners, 16 Count (Pack of 6) : Flossing Products : Beauty

And I use the Sunstar G-U-M Soft-Picks. Both good products!

 

[FlamingoTutu]

AT, thank you very much for posting, interesting stuff.

For the rest of you, if you're curious, I stuck Alien Traveler under an electron microscope.

 

[Maiar]

Awesome pictures! I've always thought that you can measure the advancement of human civilization best by looking at the things we create to see what can't be seen normally. From these microscopes to see the very small to the observatories to see the very far away.

 

[nebulis]

Wow, fascinating pics. Thank you Alien Traveler.
You wrote that it was:

... a coil that worked for 20 days, 3 times it was dry burned

I wonder how it looks like before the first dry burn?

 

[WharfRat1976]

That contamination on the surface almost looks like the surface layer laminating off. Or it could be something deposited on the surface by use. It also looks like it could be removed by brushing or pushing a wick through, or it could be hard and firmly attached. Maybe it's what's left after most of what was there previously was removed by the dry burning. In other words it raises a bunch of questions.

Whatever it is, thanks AT for opening the door on this. I sure would like to know more.

It's both.

 

[DejayRezme]

Oh wow thank you! This is awesome. Could you please do more? How does the x-ray analysis work? Can you do that from inside the electron microscope? And how come you get to play with such nice toys???

I'd love to see how nickel or especially titanium wire holds up! Could I do this with a cheapish 800x USB microscope?

Also did you rinse the coil after the dry burning? (Quenching it?) I wonder weather that helps get rid of contaminants or not. It would be very interesting to find the "best practice" for dry burning. Is water good? Or does tap water deposit more stuff like calcium / minerals?

Or would it make sense to use a spray duster?

Or maybe a miniature ultrasonic cleaner with distilled water?

BTW is the silica in the spectrum graph coming from dust you suck through the atomizer?

 

[BigEgo]

Someone give this guy some gold.

EDIT: This isn't reddit. Too bad.

 

[skoony]

cool pictures for sure.
now what is the point? we get build up on our
coils no mater what we use or how we use it.
the $64.00 dollar question is,how much transfers
to the juice if any? have any of these compounds
been found in vapor in comparable amounts?
still there good pictures.
regards
mike

 

[Bunnykiller]

I wonder if the iron would help out those with anemia?

 

[KingOhms]

if that much debris is left behind, im wondering what a sub-ohm coil at say .5 would be like. I think if we could get that test done, we could see what the electron microscope sees in the difference between the structure of both coils. it wouldn't give us many answers, but it could show us the supposed "more damage" to the coil at sub-ohm levels.

 

[Alien Traveler]

Wow, fascinating pics. Thank you Alien Traveler.
You wrote that it was:



I wonder how it looks like before the first dry burn?

Take a look on the very first picture, it was not dry burned.

 

[Papillon61]

Take a look on the very first picture, it was not dry burned.

I don't know since I didn't post the question, but he might have meant after the coil being used but not dry burnt, meaning with all the gunk on it. If that is not what he meant that is what I would like to ask. Might be gross but I would love to see what all the accumulated gunk looks like before it is burnt off.