Re: capilary tubes

[Charles Crummer <ccrummer@cats.ucsc.edu>]

> Does anybody know where very thin capilary tubes can be purchased?
> As thin as possible, down to microns. Any dielectric material. For
> a research project.
>                                           Ludwik Kowalski

They are pretty easy to make by heating glass tubes and quickly drawing
them out until they come apart.  Break the capillary threads at different
distances from the ends.  We did this the other day for a grad student and
got down to a few microns.

	Charlie