Philips
“METALIX” Tube
Philips air-cooled
fixed anode, hot cathode line focus tube, 12”
(30 cms) long, made in The cooling is by
forced air: A noisy suction fan is in the black section on the left end
of the housing, and the air input is through a filter behind the perforations
on the right end. As in other Metalix
tubes this tube has a metal waistline of steel-metal alloy (ferro-chrome) fused on either side to the glass tube wall,
surrounded by a protective layer of lead, and covered exteriorly by what
looks like brass, visible under the removable black bakelite fixings. |
Picture
of the “Philips METALIX Junior - 1928” as seen in “Mit Röntgen begann die Zukunft”
1981, by Werner
Fehr of “CHF Müller-Philips - |
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A Metalix tube, highly similar to the one above, is in a thick
bakelite housing protected in its central part by a thick cylinder of heavy
lead-containing material. Like the tube pictured below, this tube was made by
the Philips Metalix Corp., |
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Pictured here is another
large size American made Metalix, about 18” (45cms) long cooled by a huge
metal radiator about 6”(15cms) in diameter. The tube is particularly heavy and
did not withstand transport from |
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