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    Nice vacuum chamber. Simple and effective. What wall thickness on the pot? Thanks!
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    Thanks for the flip John.

    Richard, I believe the thickness is a few milometers past just thick enough.

    I have no idea. It's a stainless steel pot that's 5" deep, and 10" in diameter. Tonight I was pulling a full -30 of mercury, but usually I'm around -29. Not sure why it's different tonight. Done a few dozen vacs now and the pot is still in perfect shape.
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    I tossed one of those old pressure cookers a while back.
    Thought of this as soon as it hit the bottom of the barrel!

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    Ya, if it was a thick walled pot, could have made a nice little chamber. Can't hang onto everything tho Tom. Ever seen Hoarders?? Sometimes I think my unfinished basement might end up on an episode. It's scary down there

    I think this pot I have may have been off an old pressure cooker. It's pretty heavy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by aaron1234 View Post
    Paying off a truck
    Making a box
    Processing some burl
    Fixing my broken grinder
    ....... I know there's more somewhere......[emoji53] [emoji53] [emoji53] [emoji36] [emoji54]

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    That burl is gorgeous!! Would love to see what you do with it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY View Post
    That burl is gorgeous!! Would love to see what you do with it.
    Thank you!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sharptonn View Post
    I tossed one of those old pressure cookers a while back.
    Thought of this as soon as it hit the bottom of the barrel!
    Than you!.One of the first places I worked at a real job, built one with a canner 16" in diameter.
    Like a pressure cooker. For thin wall, as long as the rim can't wrinkle, it should be good to go. Usually made a disk to fit tight inside under the top and attached to it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
    Than you!.One of the first places I worked at a real job, built one with a canner 16" in diameter.
    Like a pressure cooker. For thin wall, as long as the rim can't wrinkle, it should be good to go. Usually made a disk to fit tight inside under the top and attached to it.
    ~Richard
    Mine has a good roll bead on it. Found it at the thrift store for $4. The 1/2" piece of polycarbonate I think almost cost me the same as the vac pump. That vac pump sure gets hot after 1.5 - 2hrs of straight pulling. No doubt it'll eventually burn out on me. Next one I may drop a little more $$$ on.
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    Took the Frederick Reynolds as far as I want to go...for now.
    Maybe someday down the road, but for now, this is as far as I would have went if he wouldn't have "CLEANED" it up.

    Sanded with 600 wet dry with oil, till the scratches were gone.

    Then Emory on a rag wheel and the dremmel. [emoji57]

    Then red rouge, rag wheel n dremmel, then a hand rubbing of 3M [emoji6]
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    Nice work Mike. Looks a hell of a lot better than the initial pic.

    Just pulled my block out of the oven after 1.5 hours of baking at 250 degrees. Looks promising. Seems the black dye has worked and I've easily doubled the initial weight, maybe even more. Hard to handle right now so tomorrow i'll belt sand the excess resin away and see what I've got.
    I was planning on weighing this before and after but forgot. hopefully I can remember to do that for the next blank to see how much mass I'm actually adding.

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