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#1 8 February 2012 - 07:09 PM raghav raju

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i have a plasma ball. but accidently the glass is broken so can i repair it?

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#2 8 February 2012 - 07:28 PM insane_alien

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not really. you'd need to pump out the air and slightly backfill with a noble gas.

at the very least you'd require a vacuum chamber.

easier to buy a new one.

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#3 8 February 2012 - 07:36 PM raghav raju

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can i buy a new one and use it on the old one

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#4 8 February 2012 - 07:47 PM Phi for All

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raghav raju, on 8 February 2012 - 07:36 PM, said:

can i buy a new one and use it on the old one

No. insane_alien meant buy a whole new plasma ball. I don't think they sell just the vacuum chambers by themselves.

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#5 8 February 2012 - 08:31 PM the tree

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raghav raju, on 8 February 2012 - 07:36 PM, said:

can i buy a new one and use it on the old one

Phi for All, on 8 February 2012 - 07:47 PM, said:

I don't think they sell just the vacuum chambers by themselves.

Though if you were to able to assemble one, presumably the filament would still be undamaged enough to work?

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#6 8 February 2012 - 11:41 PM Phi for All

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the tree, on 8 February 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

Though if you were to able to assemble one, presumably the filament would still be undamaged enough to work?

I don't know enough about plasma filaments to tell you. It depends on how... enthusiastically the glass got broken, I suppose.

Could you assemble, fill and reattach the filaments to a new vacuum chamber for a lot less than $50?

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