After researching I keep seeing it brought up for use in distillation. Is this a sufficient pump for my oven? Im planning on doing bho and hopefully diamonds. I am new to all of this but I have worn myself out trying to figure out what setup is best for me.
noise is somewhat of a concern and from what I understand this should eliminate the need for a cold trap, I may be completely wrong so am just looking for some educated advice at this point…
and if this isn’t the one if y’all could please steer me in the right direction for a sufficient quiet pump. Thanks in advance guys.
For your vacuum oven and if your vacuum oven doesn’t have a valve for being able to control the vacuum then put a gate valve on the vacuum pump and you can regulate the vacuum.
And for disty look in the f4200 classifieds for the alcatel 2021i vacuum pump or use Google and look for a used one that’s been freshly rebuilt. Sometimes you can find them as low as 750+shipping or even free shipping if you look hard enough.
Thank you for the suggestions. Seems like the Rocker 300c would suit me better than a traditional pump that uses oil. I am hoping to make making shatter and or diamonds.
Definitely don’t want an oilless pump if you’re not looking to spend a lot of money. An oil sealed rotary vane pump is the way to go. They do make very good oil less vacuum pumps but they are very expensive.
That chemically resistant pump linked earlier wouldn’t build a deep enough vacuum and chemical resistance isn’t needed in this instance.
That’s why I stated the oiless is for vacuum filtering and listed all three pumps at the cheapest option for all three applications that are usually done.
Vacuum Pump for the oven which is the 1HP 12 cfm 2 stage.
Then I said the pump for disty is the alcatel and to look on the classifieds
Then I said the oiless is for vacuum filtering and rotovap.
Those aren’t two stage meaning there’s a risk of oil back flowing into the oven. And those are also only 3cfm, it’d take forever and you couldn’t get away with a good amount of purges before you have to change the oil.
@franklin6 is better off going at the very least a 7cfm 2 stage or a 2 Stage rotary vane vacuum pump in general just so he doesn’t have to deal with the oil contamination risk.
Though it is highly recommended to change the oil after every time you compete purging out a single slab or a run of slabs.
You’re also gonna want one of these. They used to be 50$ flat…
I’m pretty sure you can find a way to adapt the outlet into a kf fitting so you can use full bore filters… You can do a Google search for the 12 cfm 2 stage vacuum pumps and it’s cheaper than the 7cfms and the 9’s
My posting on this thread is done my spoons are dropped all over the floor
Two stage pumps can back flow just the same that has absolutely nothing to do with it. What spoons? You say things you don’t have real world experience in and then come off as a lab and give people advice that could cost them alot or possibly hurt someone. @GroovyOctopusLabs
