new stabilizing vessel

Boatbuilder

Boatbuilder

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Just finished setting up my new "bigger" vessel for stabilizing wood. This vessel will hold about 125 blocks of wood for knife handles. The old one will only hold 25-30. I will be able to stabilized more wood now in same amount of time. Only trouble with the vessel this big is that it holds more than $1000.00 worth of juice.

Jim

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Holly Cow , thats some serious iron there , are those 600# flanges. How much vacuum do you pull on the vessel ?

Nice job.
 
Those flanges are 150 lb. I pull as much vacuum as possible here, which is about 27.5". Once I'm done pulling vacuum(approx 1-2 weeks) I will hit it with about 400-500lbs of pressure for 1-2 weeks as well. (just to make sure the juice is completely through the wood). The engineers from the place I buy my juice thinks I'm really overdoing the vacuum/pressure. I would rather overdue it and be sure than have 1 bad batch. I was also informed that the juice is going up in price starting feb 1/2011 so I am going to have to order more as this vessel holds lots of it.
Jim
 
Wow! Now that is my kind of shop equipment! No messing around with paint pots!
- Mitch
 
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