Quote Originally Posted by eesakiwi View Post
Those little coils inside the magnatron. What are they made of?

Thats probably where the "Theres silver & gold in a magnatron" came from. Its looks silvery & sometimes goldish compaired to the copper.



I think the little metal disc right inside the magnatron is Tungsten, maybe the same with the two metal rods. Thats not going to do a lot of good to the sawzall blade.....


The other way I ground the end parts off is using a bench grinder.
Held the magnatron at 45deg & spun it around slowly while grinding off only the weld & flange part.
Because stainless is hard & coppers soft & absorbs heat. The thing got really hot after grinding one end off. So I went thru & did only one end, then went thru again & did the other end.

Doing it this way left the metal disc still inside the end of the bobbin. So I had to go thru again & 'pop' the metal disc out with a metal rod (punch or screwdriver)
Read my post on the gold forum,

I'm perhaps the laziest man alive, if there's an easy to way to accomplish a job this is the route I take. The copper crumples up in the lathe chuck then ruins the bit, the sawzall with a 14 TPI blade zips through like a hot knife going through butter.

I would venture to say using the sawzall I can cut twenty magnetron's to your five.

Below is the gist of the V-Block clamp, for this one I'm going to use an old door hinge at one end of the upper board not yet shown.