Hello, Tom.

-=> TOM WALKER wrote to JIM HOLSONBACK <=-

 -> I probably won't hold that one against you - - after all, lots of  "all
 -> American five" radios worked ok with only a single wave rectifier.
 -> BUT -  I still would like to know how these bulb rectifier things with
 -> only two leads work.

 -> With a little research, I see that there was another kind, with
 -> tungsten filament and Argon gas, but I still haven't found how any of
 -> those may have worked with only two leads exiting the bulb, or if that
 -> is what is/was here.

 TW>  The only thing I can think of is that the Kathode was made out of a
 TW> Beta Emitter. Rembember in the "Old Days" we used
radioactive materials
 TW> for a lot ot things.

Like those "glow-in-the-dark" wristwatches from about 1950 which used
actual compounds of Radium?  Heck, I got one of those glow in the
dark wristwatches right now, from SEIKO, and I wonder what they now use
to make them glow.

AWWW! Now I've had the thing sitting down here between my knees on the
floor with its protective metal cover off for a couple of weeks.  I
think maybe my cajones have been exposed to some RADS or sumpin - -
who can I sue? who can I sue?

ROFL  - - -  JimH.

... Inquiring minds want to know. - Bubba
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