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HowlingWizard

2:54 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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This week's gizmo [howlingwizard.com] comes in a couple sizes.

DaveN

3:46 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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vacuum chamber

DrDoc

3:52 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Is it a filter?

HowlingWizard

3:52 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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>>vacuum chamber

no, but right industry

DrDoc

3:54 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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So, a "vacuum something else"? :)

DrDoc

3:56 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Perhaps an air pressure switch?

HowlingWizard

3:57 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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vacuum something - yes

bigger than pressure switch

DrDoc

3:58 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Bigger? Well, there are some mighty big pressure switches ;)
So, does it have anything to do with air pressure or switching? :)

DrDoc

4:00 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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A vaccum dryer system

HowlingWizard

4:01 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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vacuum is is just negative pressure.

big one is 8" diameter, little is 6" dia.

DrDoc

4:07 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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vacuum pump filter?
vacuum gauge?
vacuum valve?

SuzyUK

4:09 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Is that a guage on the side?

DaveN

4:12 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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ok it uses compressed air, the guages on the side are either to regulate the pressure going in or the pressure inside?

HowlingWizard

4:21 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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The only gauge visible is on the black section of the big one.

no compressed air

not gauge, filter or valve.

DrDoc

4:22 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Actually, both the big and small one have gauges

What about the vacuum dryer system?
...and the pump idea?

...or is it a Vacuum Meat Tenderizer/Marinade Tumbler?

HowlingWizard

4:26 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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not dryer

pump is the right direction

HowlingWizard

4:31 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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correction each has gauge on black section.

hint - no moving parts in these.

DrDoc

4:42 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Used in a household? or pure industrial use? or neither?

HowlingWizard

4:42 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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industrial

bunltd

4:45 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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>no moving parts

so it's not a valve?

LisaB

SuzyUK

4:50 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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[ricor.com...]

Cryo Pump

HowlingWizard

4:50 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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You got it.

bunltd

4:54 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Congrats! SuzyUK

Good game HowlingWizard.

darn, I saw cryo stuff in my search and didn't pursue it ;)

DrDoc

4:56 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Congrats SuzyUK ;)

SuzyUK

5:16 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Thanks.. Good Game

Now what is a Cryo Pump? ;)

does this mean I have to do it next week?

Suzy

defanjos

5:34 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Sharks, I was late, I would have gotten it right away. I used a cryo pump as my first gizmo quiz.
Actually, I would have not solved it - would not be fair :)

HowlingWizard, do you work in the semiconductor industry?

defanjos

5:40 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Now what is a Cryo Pump? ;)

Basically, a cryogenic pump is used to obtain very high vacuum by cooling down the remaining molecules in a chamber, so they slow down and get trapped on the charcoal surface of the pump.
Lack of molecules moving around, means lack of pressure, which equals high vacuum.

requiem

6:00 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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... ...

HowlingWizard

7:00 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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HowlingWizard, do you work in the semiconductor industry?

I spent just over a decade doing engineering (controls) for a company that designed and built vacuum (and pressure) furnaces.

Cyro-pumps fun. Simple device, just freeze the air solid in the chamber to make a better vacuum.

Comment I leaned from this industry: Vacuum sucks and Pressure blows

[edited by: HowlingWizard at 7:08 pm (utc) on Jan. 3, 2004]

HowlingWizard

7:07 pm on Jan 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

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does this mean I have to do it next week?

Suzy, yep you are on for next week.

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