It was hard to give you details of the progress made on this cell as I am doing everything on my own. I worked as fast as possible to bring it up but I didn't posted as much as I wanted. Sorry for that.

After reception of the faulty glass tube I tried with a local glass blower to flame polish the ends. I found one in Anduze, a very nice man that does artistic glass blowing.
Unfortunately, the tubes broke during bake out.

So I had to reorder two new tubes to my "lab-grade" glass supplier and beg for better flame polishing, anyway.

In the mean time I cooked the mica into an oven. I wanted to do so because the previous quartz tube I was using before had crystallized silicon on the edge, close to the flanges. During the first run of it, the mica used by Ryan released silicon from the binder used in the process of mica fabrication. I wanted to avoid this. So I baked the mica at 300C for 20 min, a little bit more conservative than what the English supplier told me to do.

I received two high-end power supplies units from England. These are directly paid by your donations. They are amazing and very easy to use. This supplier is good, they ask you to send back the shipping foams for reuse, this is amazing! The brand is Thurlby Thandar Instruments provided by Test-Measure.co.uk. We had very good contacts because of the interest they had in Pons and Fleischmann Effect since 1989, very lovely people... ;)
Thank you everyone for your donations, these PSU will be immensely useful during the run.

More to come very soon, EDS-X spectrum, calibration procedure and data, etc...