HHG & Krypton/Xenon Instructions

To make your own HHg, the directions can be found at educate-yourself, or metatech under the cloudbuster link. Just scroll down about halfway and you'll find the directions.

To make a krypton or xenon HHg, start with the basic HHg components (metal particles or bb's, five quartz crystals, and polyester resin (or Aqua Resin). To this, you will add the inert-gas device. To make the inert-gas device (or "power pack"), you need:

1.one small krypton light bulb (the ones they make for MagLites)
2.one small xenon light bulb (used in cars)
3.one small but strong neodymium (rare-earth) magnet, gold plated is preferable but not necessary
4.one quartz crystal
5.copper shavings (or copper foil)
6.one small square of aluminum foil or paper (disregard if using copper foil)

Simply take the bulbs, magnet, crystal, and enough copper shavings to cover them up, and wrap this all up carefully in some aluminum foil or paper into a small little pack. Wrap carefully so as to not break the bulbs. The krypton/xenon gas is what is important, not the bulbs, but you don't want them broken. After making the pack, wrap it in a little scotch tape to help keep the resin out of the device when casting your HHg. The copper chips are crucial, aluminum or other metal shavings will not suffice. The magnet excites the gas in the bulbs; this interacts with the copper to cause the desired effect. Alternatively to the copper shavings, you may wrap the bulbs, magnet and crystal together in some copper foil.

Place the completed inert-gas packet about midway in your HHg before pouring the resin. Place the vertical crystal in the tip, cover with metal, then place the packet, cover that with metal, then place the final four crystals and cover that with metal. (You will have a total of six crystals in your HHg.) Then pour the resin. (If you are using a thicker resin, you will need to pour it in stages. I use Synair Por-a-Kast because it pours like water and is easy to use.)