TPP Vacuum Chamber 3 Gallon Vacuum Chamber with Polycarbonate Lid Silicone For Sale
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TPP Vacuum Chamber 3 Gallon Vacuum Chamber with Polycarbonate Lid Silicone:
$119.95
Thomas Performance Parts
Vacuum Chamber Degassing Urethane, Silicone, Epoxies Two Part Systems
Thomas Performance Parts Vacuum Chamber 3 Gallon Vacuum Chamber with PolycarbonateLid
Please readbefore purchase
We have pushedVacuum Chamber technology to the edge. This allows you to take your products tothe next level and set yourself above the rest of the pack.
Why useyesterdays tired and outdated chambers. Your customers demand the best fromyou. How will you do this without state of the art production?
Our new line ofVacuum Chambers
We give you achoice of Three New Lids:
PolycarbonateLid: This is good for use in a low solvent process.
When the chamberis under vacuum, the lid stretches and solvent fumes can work their way into the plastic surfacecausing crazing.
SolidAluminum Lid: This is good in a high solvent environment.
Solventsthat eat into plastic have no effect on the Aluminum Lid. Down side is it is not see through. You must timeyour vacuum pull. This is not a difficult process. You can relive the vacuum in30 minute increments and check for surface bubbles.
AluminumPortal Lid: Gives you the best of both. You have an Aluminum lid that won’t becompromised by solvents and a smaller portal that doesn’t flex under load. Thislid also has a built-in LED light and comes with a power supply.
All ourchambers come with an auto shut off on the vacuum hose. What this means is whenyou shut off the vacuum pump the hose valve automatically closes. If you losepower or your pump breaks the auto valve will close. Saving you from oil orsolvent vapor back flowing into your chamber ruining your product.
No other companygive you the freedom to achieve your goals. From our front-line designs to ourCNC machine shop we offer only the best products in the industry.
Others follow thepack and never ask their customers what they need to be the best.
We are different,our success is guided by our customer’s success.
We are the onlycompany that designs and builds our own parts.
Others useoff-the-self parts you can find at most hardware stores. Why buy a product youcould build yourself?
Because we are aperformance company we are never satisfied with the easy way out. If you wantyour products to rise above the rest and are never satisfied with peoplethinking of your work as average.
Join ourperformance team and push your products to the limit.
We are investedin your success. While other sellers are going backwards in the market we aresetting new levels of product quality.
Many sellers’ claimthat their products are the best. Their promise is only as good as theirresearch and manufacturing.
Most of ourcustomers are new to vacuum chambers. There are a few factors you shouldconsider before your purchase.
Design: Is their design specific or off the shelf parts made into a chamber?Others call their chambers Custom. Their designs are as custom as the plumbingsection of your Hardware Store.
Safety: Did the seller research what materials to use so you are safe using aVacuum Chamber? Using products with Acrylic Lids or Thin Stainless Steel WalledChambers can cause severe personal injury to the user. Does the seller saythings like “Use at your own Risk”? Some seller’s say their products can bedangerous.
After Sale Support: Can you purchase parts to support a long-termsafe and proper use of this chamber?
Our research hasshown that when you purchase an untested or poorly designed Vacuum Chamber itcosts you money, time and personal safety.
Vacuum Chamberswork under extreme negative pressure so it is imperative to buy from a trustedmanufacturer. When you pull a full vacuum on a 5 Gallon chamber the negativepressure on the lid is 1,665 pounds of force. Something to think about when aseller uses poorly selected materials or drills holes in the lid to mountvalves or gauges.
Never Use aVacuum Chamber that has
AcrylicLid
ThinWalled Stainless Steel Chamber
Holesdrilled in the lid for Gauges or Valves.
Glass Lidor Glass Base Chamber
Threadingin the Lid for components
What I have seenin the new sellers is they are turning chamber technology back two years. Theolder sellers know that using Acrylic Lids doesn’t work. The problem iscleaning the lid. Most users clean with Alcohol. This will destroy the Acrylicand lead to implosion. Now I even see sellers threading the lids again. Whenyou pull the vacuum the lid flexes. This will cause the threads to fail and thecreate leaks. These will be hard to find, as you wouldn’t expect the threads toleak.
Product Description 3-Gallon Vacuum Chamber
Aluminum Chamber: Strong and easy to clean 3/16-inch wallthickness. Solvent and heat resistant. Won’t implode like thin Stainless Steelpots. 9-inch diameter and an 8-inch height give plenty of space for yourprojects. Degas in any vessel or degas in moulds.
Our Chamberdimensions: 2 Gallon 10 x 6 ½ inches, 3 Gallon 10 x 9 inches, 5 Gallon 12 x 10½ inches. This will help you find the size you need for your projects.
MAKROLON® Lid: ½ inch thick see-through Ballistic GradePolycarbonate. The same material use for bulletproof windows. Built in handlesso you don’t have to use the manifold as a handle. The handle edges of our lidsare rounded for comfort and safety. We install a one-inch wide Neoprene sealtwo both sides of the lid. This gives you twice the life of the lid. Won’tshatter like Acrylic lids.
* Please read whywe don’t use Acrylic.
Neoprene Seal: We install two one inch wide Neoprene sealusing 3M 1357 Scotch Weld. Neoprene has a high chemical solvent resistance.Neoprene has twice the tolerance to heat as Urethane and doesn’t soak up Butanelike Silicone.
* Please read whywe don’t use Silicone seals.
CNC Delrin Manifold: We use Delrin because it is a superior plasticto machine and thread. It machines like Aluminum providing high tensilestrength and dimensional stability with superior resistance to solvents. Manufacturedin our CNC machine shop.
Vacuum Gauge: Our gauges calibrate from 0 to –30 Inches ofMercury. We test all our gauges prior to assembly then the entire unit istested and because we care about your product. We include our exclusiveinstructions on how to calibrate your gauge. This ensures your accuracy andconsistency at the altitude you are working at. We don’t use liquid filledgauges.
* Please read whywe don’t use liquid filled gauges.
Shut Off Valve: Nickel-plated Ball valves with Teflon seals andNylon Hose Barbs. We test all our valves before and after final assembly.
* Please read whywe don’t use Brass Hose Barbs.
Vacuum Pump: Our Pumps are 3-6-12 CFM Two Stage 15 Micron.We have tested many pumps and found this model to be superior to all others.Our pumps are shipped with your chamber and setup for easy use.
* Please read whywe don’t use Single Stage Pumps.
Hose: We include four feet of Amflo hose with our custom shutoff valve.
What You Will Receive
One fully testedVacuum Chamber
1: 3 GallonChamber, With Mounted Manifold, Gauge, Valve and Vacuum Inlet Port.
1: PolycarbonateVacuum Lid with 2 Lid Seals.
1: 4 Foot 3/8-inchID Vacuum Hose with auto-shutoff valve.
1: Set UserInstructions, Quick Setup Guide, Gauge Altitude Calculation Guide.
Reasons to Buy From Thomas Performance Parts
First: Will you be degassing a liquid that expels solvents? Examples arestains, glues Urethanes, Epoxies and some paints. Our Polycarbonate lid is farmore resistant to solvents than the Acrylic lids. Even simple cleaning productslike window cleaners have Alcohol in them. Just Google Alcohol and Acrylic.Products like wood stabilizers will crack this lid.
Second: Will this chamber be used for Essential Oils? Remember all parts in avacuum chamber must be cleaned with Alcohol. Our Polycarbonate Lid and all theparts of our chambers can be cleaned with Alcohol. Acrylic lids can’t becleaned with Alcohol, it causes stress cracks. Something to think about whenthe vacuum chamber lid is pulled down withover a Thousand Pounds of forceat –30on the gaugeand your face is 18 inches away.
Third: Flat seal verses O-Ring type. Our 1-inch wide flat Neoprene Seal isadhered with 3M 1357 Scotch-Weld cement made just for Neoprene giving a solidconnection and ample room to move the lid around and obtain an easy vacuumseal. The O-ring type is 50-75% smallerand is poured into a groove cut into the lid. There is no adhesion other thanthe Urethane to groove walls. With repeated use the O-ring is compressed andbreaks apart from the groove. Remember Urethane isn’t an adhesive. The nextpoint is the groove. It must be cut into the lid deep enough to make room forthe seal. Right at the point of greatest pressure the lid is cut and weakened.The seller may say their lid is ¾ inch thick but it’s as thick what’s leftwhere the groove is cut. That’s the pull and pressure point of the lid.
Fourth: Installation of Gauge, Vacuum Inlet and Shut Off Valve. You can see weuse a machined Manifold. Polycarbonate and Acrylic are too fragile to hold athread under the continued lid flexing under vacuum. Consider the depth of thepipe thread 3/100 of an inch. About the thickness of Three Business Cards.Softer materials require coarser threading. This leaves more material tosupport the pull stress that the screw or pipe puts on the threads. Pipethreading in plastic is usually a one-time use. The heat and tension put on thethread fractures the threads and when the pipe is removed the plastic threadingcomes with it.
If you think this is all about design andexperience your 100% right.
We test eachcomponent and final assembled chamber goes through a 24-hour test. This sectiongives you and understanding of why we chose the components in our chambers.
Vacuum Pumps: This is the most important part of thissection. Some people are selling Single stage pumps claiming they work todegas. This is not true and the Manufactures of the pumps say so. The pumpsthat are being sold were mostly made for the HVAC trade. Single stage pumpswill pull a vacuum. They won’t pull what is known as a deep vacuum. The deepvacuum is what removes VOC’s (Butane) and water from your product. We sell pumpsthat pull to 15 Microns. I work with local Essential Oil processors and theylab test their product. Don’t poison yourself.As you may have noticed we do things a little different. The other guysput the pump shutoff valve on the lid because it’s easy. We put the shutoffvalve as close to the pump as possible. Why? When you pull a vacuum, the pumpgets hot. Since the pump, itself is in an oil bath the oil gets hot. If youconsider that at a full –29.91 vacuum water boils at -70F. The pump oil hassolvents and stabilizers but the older it gets the more contaminated itbecomes. When this hot vaporized oil hits the cool shutoff valve and plumbingassembly on the lid it condenses. Where do you think, it will go next? Myquestion to you is. Do you want the contaminated oil in the lid or 4 feet awayfrom the lid where it isn’t under vacuum and doesn’t have a chance of gettinginto your chamber?
Acrylic Plastic in very reactive to solvents like Alcohol. Someuser process oil with Alcohol. Other know that in essential oil production youmust clean your chamber with a disinfectant to maintain a healthy product.Acrylic can’t be cleaned with Alcohol. Alcohol causes stress cracks that willultimately lead to catastrophic failure.
Silicone in your processing. If you haven’t heard the producer onsilicone-baking sheets that were used for oil production have been changed fromSilicone to PTFD ( Teflon ). The Silicone sheet was delaminating from thefiberglass support sheet inside and components from the Silicone were transferredinto the oil. Silicone soaks up Butane like a sponge and while it is undervacuum may release chemicals into your oil.
Liquid Filled Gauges: Some seller call them custom liquid filled. Themanufactures designed these gauges to be used in an environment of quickpressure changes. The liquid is used as a shock absorbing agent. The problem isvacuum chambers don’t have this kind of rapid vacuum change. The real problemis that the liquid makes the gauge very susceptible to altitude and temperaturechanges. You must acclimate the gauge to your altitude and maintain a stabletemperature for the gauge to read accurately. The manufacturer goes to thepoint of saying “Once mounted remove the gauge plug and don’t move the gauge”.This is why I feel the gauge is not a proper fit for our products.
Brass Hose Barbs: While some people think that Brass is best. Ourresearch has shown Nylon to be superior. Once again Brass works fine when it isnot moved. Brass also requires a hose clamp. Nylon doesn’t require a hose clampand has a better seal that allows you to rotate the connection without leaks.
Threading into Plastic: Some seller’s thread directly into to lid. Thisis a bad idea on many levels. First Acrylic and Polycarbonate Plastics don’thold threading. The NPT thread is tapered. When a valve or pipe is installedthe threads are crushed to make the seal. The installation also acts like acork. When torque is applied, it pushes out on the threads and hole. Whenvacuum is applied, the lid will be pulled into the chamber with great forcecreating a stress point. Some seller’s bad design even has the vacuum gaugehole in the center of the lid at its maximum stress point. We use a manifoldand backing support plate that spreads the stress load. It is positioned farfrom the center stress load.
I have includedsome illustrations to show you why our designs are superior to all othersellers.
I have included apicture to illustrate this design difference.
First: I willaddress the manifold placement, as this is confusing until you see how movingit can make such a significant change in the Chamber’s use. We do many studieson design and material uses. I concluded that moving the Manifold to theChamber was a necessity. When the manifold is in the lid the air blast fromrelieving the vacuum blows straight down onto the product. If you open too fastthe blast flips the product over. Now you have a huge mess.
Second: this ismost important. The lid when under vacuum is under as great amount of stress.To put this in perspective a 5 Gallon lid is pulled down with over 1,600 poundsof negative force. The main stress load is concentrated in the center of thelid so drilling holes is not a good option. This is the main cause of lidcracks but the seller won’t tell you this because they don’t have the machineryto mill a Manifold that fit on the Chamber.
Third: Thesellers of Stainless Steel Chamber are telling you they are induction ready.First things first. There is no available Induction cook top that can be usedfor Essential Oil manufacturing. I have one and it has 7 heat ranges they startat 100F. The unit increases temp by 10-degree increments. So, start at 100F andnext level is 110F one is to low and the next too hot with nothing in between.Worthless but the sellers don’t read the product instructions. They let youlearn the hard way by ruining your product.
Next is theimplosion problem with Stainless Chambers. The wall thickness on StainlessSteel Chambers .06 Inches or commonly known as 1/16 Inch. Too thin to take theinward pressure that a Vacuum Chamber must withstand. Aluminum wall thicknessis .1875 Inches or 3/16th Inch. This can withstand this crushingpressure with no problems. We have shipped Thousands of Chambers with noImplosions.
Essential oilfinishing can’t be done with any Induction Cooking Elements. Even the bestInduction Cook Tops have only 7 heat levels. After you set the level the heatincreases in 10 Degree increments. Start at 100F your next level is 110F. Tolow or too high to process Essential Oils. Induction doesn’t act like a hotplate. You can’t just put towels between the top and pot to lower temp. Oncethe induction coil locks onto the pot there is no way to slow it down.
Stainless SteelChamber is a thin wall design. They are not built to take an inward load of14.7 pounds per square inch. Sellers use cheap Steam Table inserts, which arepaper-thin. Therefore, they implode and some seller tells you they will implodebut still sell them. They use words like Danger in their product description.
We moved theManifold to the Chamber Pot. We are still the only seller to use CNC cutManifolds. Others drill a hole and use a flimsy nut setup. We found that whenyou drill holes in a flexing lid you invite failure. Holes are the main causeof lid cracks.
I hope this hashelped you understand our products. I look forward to earning your trust andbusiness. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to email.
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