
Originally Posted by
BillC
The electron gun is upper left. The hot thing is a half of a single cell 1492MHz superconducting cavity. This operation was an experiment in remelting the cavity inner surface with the electron beam circular raster and under focused. This is Niobium - melting temperature is 4474° F.

Very interesting. To get an idea of scale, what size is the 3 jaw chuck on that positioner?
Long arc, short arc, heliarc and in-the-dark!