God damn...I WANT that turbomolecular pump I've been eyeing on ebay. Would be perfect for the main vacuum chamber pump for the cyclotron I want to build.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyclotronLol when I mentioned my wanting to build this to my old man, he was like 'what would you do with it/why would you want a particle accelerator'
Seriously....LMAO! who on earth WOULDN'T want their very own particle accelerator. X-ray generation, nuclear transmutation, generating very high energy proton/deuteron/triton/antiproton/electron/positron/neutron beams....perhaps electron beam welding, pumping plasmas (I would just LOVE to try one day, to build a spheromak reactor) for instance. The possibilities are endless, at least when one has an autistic brain on the task, with the accompanying creativity to be vented