On 4/3/2011 5:29 AM Geoffrey S. Mendelson spake thus:

William Sommerwerck wrote:

That isn't quite so stupid as it sounds. Even though I had a good grasp of
electronics as a teenager, I didn't understand this.

I can understand this, but anyone born after 1970 probably had their bottles
heated in a microwave and have grown up with one. That makes it likely
that they were taught as infants you never put metal into a microwave,
and although there are some exceptions (they probably don't know them)

So--and this is completely out of left field, I know--what would happen
if a guy put a vacuum tube--say a biggish octal one, like a 5Y3 or a
6V6--into a microwave and nuked it?

I've nuked CDs and derived many seconds of amusement from that ...


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