Jim, The filament is a hot wire ionizer that functions to ionize the atoms in the beam so that the mass spectrometer will be able to steer them to the electron multiplier. It is a thin ribbon and not likely to be reattached once it burns open.
Cheers, Corby _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
