Slow progress

Just to break the silence.
Have been repairing the bake out heating with heat-conducting high-temperature epoxy.
Started this weekend with the aluminum ground plate, but my pillar drill was not big enough to reach the center of the plate. Tried to hard-solder the stainless hemispheres to fix two holes, but didn't have enough power to reach the desired 600 deg. C.
So, lots of activity, little result....
But, I did buy a second-hand bigger pillar drill, and I bought the "Siever MetalJet" which can reach 2400 deg. C.
A 40mm viewport is also on it's way, and I polished the weblog.
On the left you can see a 3D drawing of the octavio core, just the core, explanation about the core, the 8 focus coils and 8 electron guns will follow.