vacuum tables

[Romey]

Bill , you mention using the vaccum for wood, do you happen to be stabilizine wood under vaccum?

[Skipknives]

Romey I have tryed to stabilize using a vacuum and kurrs jars that will hold the vacuum for weeks.

I was using "spur-resens" because of the very thin viscosity and mixed a dye agent into it so i could map the progress.

after a week under 25inches of vacuum i only got 1/16" inch of penatration (except at faults/checks)

it would pull the air out of the wood in about an hour (no more bubbling). not much sucses.

I am trying to get a pressure chamber made from a hydrolic cylinder that will hold 5,000 + PSI (safely) and will do more tests.

[Romey]

I built a really heavy duty stablizing unit a few years ago that would take up to 6000 psi, ofcourse a three hundred gallon air compressor would only push it to about 120PSI and the vaccum part of it was a 2 piston suction run my a 2 horse motor. It would get up to 29 inches and then hold as 28. Great stablizer. the issue was the material. I exsperimented with everything except what K and G and the other stabilizing pro , that stuff is 100$ a gallon IF you can get it. But i tried everything else readily available from Minwax to pentacrel and non of it worked every good as the stabilizing matrix. In the end the hours i put into that unit, hours and money I put into using it and not being happy with it i realized i was saving money buying the block from KandG or where ever, professionally stabilize. Just my 2 cents. Its a really neat machine i bit, and just sits in a corner now...