If you want to make your own x-rays, look for a book called "The Amateur
Scientist" by C.L. Stong.  This is a book of reprints of the old
"Scientific American" "Amateur Scientist" columns.  It was printed in
the early sixties.

In one of the articles, Stong shows you how to make an x-ray emitter out
of a diode vacuum tube.  The tube used would probably be hard to find
nowadays, but the information in the article should help you find a
substitute.

Other articles let you build an atom smasher (a small linear accelerator
powered by a van degraff generator) and a working microscope, which is
made from a glass rod melted in the flame from a kitchen stove.  It's
the same type of microscope van lewuenhook(spelling) used.  I built one
when I was  in high school and it works!  You can see microbes with it.

Just think, with one book, you can find microbes, mutate them and then
see what kind of damage they do to your innards!

And the X-ray source might erase your OTP PIC chips!

Dave Mullenix