Original Factory Aflas O-Ring Supply to Australia

Aflas based synthetic rubber, reinforced with carbon black and peroxide cured. Has good rapid gas decompression(FGD) resistant properties, which making it suitable for many high pressure gas applications. Temperature capability for this type compound is +5~+200℃.

Technical Data Sheet

I built a physical deposition chamber, for now it’s just evaporative deposition but I plan on adding a few other variants. The thin films created can be used in many ways.
The chamber still has a ton of space leftover and I have some more equipment coming so hopefully I can do more interesting things.
Sorry there’s no footage of lathing the feedthroughs, they worked nice with a cut o-ring and some heat shrink. Make sure you cut a slot down the holding screw threads to vent behind em. The 2 copper feedthroughs allow (with a center tap) 2 tungsten boats with different metals so I can avoid opening the chamber in a multi layer coating.
The pump down takes about 45 min. to get to 10e-5. I can use a small steel hemisphere with a kf40 hose on the top for use with a secondary high vacuum chamber. The shutter was aluminum flashing with some steel stuck on one side so a neodymium magnet on the outside of the bell jar could move it around without a feedthrough.
This build was really fun

I got everything from mcmaster, K.j lesker, ebay and what I already had

This did cost a bit to make:
diffusion pump- $160
mechanical pump-$140
plate- $270 (ouch!)
valves- $90
gauges- $200
misc vacuum stuff -$120
bell jar – $140 (stupid)
other stuff – maybe $100?

I recommend you check out https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333
he has done some neat stuff with his setup and a bunch of other things

Warning: Something might be dangerous

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Can’t find a replacement for that torn ribbon cable; don’t want to pay for a new one – solder splice the two bits – did you save them ?

PLEASE NOTE: In the making of this video my efforts were necessarily clumsy because I could not take advantage of any magnification directly, especially using the microscope; I had to concentrate on aligning the cam to get a picture, so I was constrained to watching the screen of the VCR, it being too low resolution for productive effort. I would like to have used an eyepiece adaptor that fits both the camcorder and the ‘scope; then I should have been able to peer through the other eyepiece. So be assured it is a great deal easier than I make it look here. I have to admit that relatively few people have access to a stereo microscope; I paid around £180 ( ebay ) for this Russian made Lomo MBC-10, so at least it has been useful apart from being a toy.

I use a Yihua [ goes under several trade names ] workstation that has a heater blower – like a hair drier but hotter and more concentrated flow of air – and a soldering iron that has, as an accessory, a very fine, needle point bit, allowing you to make a good job of such tiny amounts of solder, almost too small to see with the naked eye.

The VX1000 mic/remote/cp flexiboard cable is about 1cm wide; with only a “normal” fine point soldering bit 40 joints were made in the space of approx 0.9 sq cm. The much finer bit was/is available as an optional accessory.

See this video for demonstration of USB microscope: “ToddFun.com: USB Microscope Review”.

Mario Parodi [ Guitar ] plays:-

Albeniz: Rumores de la Caleta; SE-Op 165 – Malaguena
Brahms: Cradle Song Op 49 no 4
Debussy: Arabesca No 1; SB – Clair de lune