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HOW TO - Make Polaroid X-ray Radiographs

Rob writes in with how to make radiographs on Polaroid film - "The neat discovery is not that you can buy x-ray machines off eBay. The neat discovery is that you can use Polaroid film to image x-rays!" That pretty much says it all. " - Link.

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Posted by: Cathaholic on May 1, 2006 at 1:31 PM

Thank you so much for this info. I actually emailed someone concerning radiography recently. This is awesome.

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Posted by: mrChew on May 1, 2006 at 4:22 PM

you might be able to buy the machines on e-bay, but all states require that you have a permit for an x-ray tube(yeah yeah, feign ignorance when the govt. comes knocking, i know.).

if your tube blows, i don't know how easy it will be to get another one, unless of course those are for sale on e-bay as well.

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