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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut
I wonder if someone once called it the "ion-trap magnet" (as in "the magnet associated with the ion trap"), and that quickly got shortened to "ion trap?"
(Just as people refer shortly to a transistor radio as a "transistor.")
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I hadn't thought about that. When I when back to look at the service manual, when they don't call it a beam-bender they call it an "Ion trap magnet." They always included magnet. It does make more sense.
John