X-Ray Equipment

it's a simple subject, but the picture is fabulous!

Can't believe all this equipment was left behind

these machines give me the creeps ....

Toxic ,radioactive, waste zone, if they left the isotope in the machine.

be carefull my friend, i imagine you dont hang around tooooo long..

No radioactive isotope in x-ray machines, only x-ray tube (non radioactive) . . . . . listen to me . . . I'm a radiologist, I know what I'm talking about.

chris:

Thank you for all the invaluable information you have given us about these machines. I hope you don't mind that we changed your name to the first one you typed in so people could see that ALL the information was from the same person who obviously knows his or her stuff. One reader became confused, not knowing that you were from Europe, and when you used random letters as a name s/he apparently thought something s/he shouldn't have. In truth we are VERY appreciative of your information.

Please continue to contribute to this site. It's information like yours that helps enrich the value of these photos and better educates us all.

To aleviate fears. Diagnostic Xray Machines have absolutely no radioactive material in them, PERIOD. The way an XRay is produced is by firing highly excited electrons traveling past the range of visible light and into the range of XRay where they are fired across a vacuumm tube inside the round metal canister. These strike an anode and are deflected through a glass port in the bottom of the tube. The box at the bottom with the knobs is a collimater which decides the size of the field of electons passing by using adjuxtable lead sheets. The electrons pass through the body and the table and into a film cassette. The inside of this cassette contains specially treated sheets on both sides that glow when bombarded by the electrons, thereby exposing the film.

The only hazard is when the machine is actually shooting an XRay.

This is a photo of a Machlett tube. Machlett has since gone under and now the tubes are made by Varian, Dunlee and Toshiba. You can tell by the highly textured finish and the shape of the federal connector ports. They used to build these in Connecticut and Massachusetts when Machlett was owned by Raytheon

Man I sure want this machine. Especially the tube and collimator unit, as they don't make them like this anymore. Is the power supply still there, and what about the film processing unit? Is it a kodak or fischer. I just started learning how to repair x ray machines within the last yr, and they are a very simple machine, you just have to be careful with the high voltage anode and cathode ends.