About to go get a 2L from summit, also need a consult

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You should get temperature and vacuum gauges ASAP, you can get some results without them, however they are some of your best friends for operation and troubleshooting. And do you mean specifically you dont have an instrument for reading vapor temperature?

Edit: Bullseye vacuum gauges are very popular, easy to use, affordable and accurate for the industry. Some type of thermocouple with quality fittings for vapor temp

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I have two alcatels can I run them together for a 5L?

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i asked that same question and was told no i believe by @Roguelab

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So I would have to give up the key to read head temps? I should I just buy the summit controller?

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They make keys that are thermowells. And you should see if you can get a GL-KF connector and use a bellow after the cold trap. You’ll have better vacuum, as well. Which will be very helpful

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@Dred_pirate seems to think that a single will do fine

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whats the cfm on that?

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it looks like thats 12.95 cfm, i know @Roguelab suggests 4cfm per L of BF
if it works let me know!

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I’ve seen that pump run a 5l full bore summit kit. And under 50 micron. I believe. I would definitely run it on a 2l. I use it to pull vac on my collection, my whole cls, and vac my nitro. With regular vac changes she still pulls my 100lb tank under 20 micron(empty). And that’s after being used for spd, multiple times. They are die hard little pumps.

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So, if you add the swing arm mono cow piece. You won’t have to break vac after heads and you can can drop a swing arm down for main body and keep your system under vac. You could change your oil right then to keep micron low. Especially because you don’t have a second cold trap.

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How would you change your oil with the pump running?

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You wouldn’t leave it running, obviously. You’d have to stop the system, but not break vac at least

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So you can change the oil while it’s under vac? Or do you have to blank the pump off?

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It has a check valve. It will slowly lose micron, but won’t suck back oil. If that’s what you are asking. The dude that ran that pump with the 5L kit I have, would change the oil right then. Start back up and start to pull thc again, and swing down the arm. Because when you stop, you’ll start to pull heads again, “apparently”.

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How’s your wiped film distillation recovery thing thing going? It didn’t blow up and kill you, or take too many fingers. What’s the progress on it?

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Mix of chemglass and Chinese glass

Am I insane ? This is for hot condenser tek.

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looks dope @Rowan

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I like the doohikee. This is a pretty sweet setup.

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What’s a doohickey also thanks

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I will definitely look that piece up. Thank you for the responses.