Very interesting post @Alien Traveler. Very cool pics too.
More cool pictures @Alien Traveler! THANKS!!!
Perhaps you missed @Alien Traveler's other cool thread: Cotton Under Electron Microscope
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.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" data-source="post: 15984624" class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeBlock--expandable bbCodeBlock--quote js-expandWatch">alien Traveler said: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.
I don't know how much good it does but I use a dental brush on my coils after dry burning them.¯\_(ツ)_/¯But very often I think I should put a wire brush to it.
... a coil that worked for 20 days, 3 times it was dry burned
It's both.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.
Take a look on the very first picture, it was not dry burned.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.