In this space, visitors are invited to post any comments, questions, or skeptical observations about Philo T. Farnsworth's contributions to the field of Nuclear Fusion research.Subject: Re: Few fusor questions...
Date: Mar 27, 4:29 pm
Poster: TheMakerOn Mar 27, 4:29 pm, TheMaker wrote:
>Welcome to the fold! Glad to have another active person chime in.
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>As for a list of materials suitable for vacuum, glass, stainless steel, and copper are the better materials. It is those unseen or un-thought of items that kill you like solder, epoxy, fluxes, greases, waxes, etc that can kill you pumps efficiency through outgassing.
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Thanks, its quite an honour to meet you, as I became interested and began this project as a result of your postings to the hvlist mailing list :)
Anywho, turns out I don't have cast iron plumbing, but black iron. Does that outgas as much? (sorry for the stupid questions, I just can't seem to find ANY data on this on the WWW)