ABLAZE 1.5 Gallon Upgraded Tempered Glass Lid Stainless Steel Vacuum Degassing Chamber and 3 CFM Single Stage Pump Kit

was not sure if I made the right choose, but after receiving and setting it up I was surprised. I have never stabilized wood before but this seemed easy. setup was quick and easy no problems, pump came with oil already, I was surprised. I turned out my first batch of Buckeye is just a few hours. I am pleased with this purchase and would recommend this as a first start up to wood stabilization .

Nice heavy lid without the gauge drilled tree the top so hopefully no spider cracks I've had under vacuum for 24 hours and happy with pot and lid pump comes without oil so make sure to buy a bottle.

Both air valves are mounted to turn into the pot and cannot close fully. Tried the quick idea to just swap them myself but it appears whatever thread sealer was used has cemented them in place and I didn't want to push it and break the warranty.Should have been easy to find the error at the factory, but clearly zero quality control. The Facebook page that the instructions point me to is a closed group of a few people, the vendor webpage chat kicked me out after ten minutes ("please enter your email and we'll get back to you"), and tried an email to the vendor for resolution more than a week ago - no response from the vendor. Returning the product.

Used this to degas epoxy resin and silicone. After two months of regular use, it just started humming and stopped working. - While it did work, it took quite a while to degas the resin. Always felt like it should have pulled harder, put eventually it would get the job done.

This degasser is easy to use, however I wish it had come with directions. I kept having to look back at the sellers video. I’m still learning to use it but so far so good!

It works amazing wont lie. Whipped upside down oil spilled everywhere had to go buy oil. I dont think it works that great on epoxy resin.

This review is for ABLAZE 1.5 Gallon Upgraded Tempered Glass Lid Stainless Steel Vacuum Degassing Chamber. The kit includes the vacuum pot along with the gauges and fittings you need, the sealing lid, a silicone circle to put inside your pot, and the vacuum pump itself. It has everything you need to get started right our of the box after assembling the unit. There is one additional item I would suggest your purchase though. The silicone mat is nice but in order to make sure this thing stays super clean I would purchase a plastic container to place your silicone or resin container into. This way if there is any overflow you catch it in the bucket that can be tossed and not in the pot.First off my pump came already filled to the max with oil. The box states you must fill it with oil beforehand but in my case it was already done. The only thing you need to do is remove the yellow sealing cap and screw on the exhaust filter that is included with the unit. Be sure to check this for yourself though. It has an oil viewing window on one end that easily allows you to see the level. I expected the pump to be loud but it is actually really quiet. Quiet enough that I could totally see using this inside an apartment even, no kidding. It isn't soft like a whisper by any means but it isn't going to make the neighbors dog bark either.The only real issues I had was that the inlet hose was very difficult to screw onto the pump. It could not be done by hand and I had to resort to a wrench. I triple checked that it was threaded on correctly and it was. I think mine was just poorly threaded. It took a lot of muscle to get this thing together. Also I was not able to get this to hold a firm vacuum for long periods of time. It always slowly dropped down. This was not an issue for my use case so I didn't explore it further but there may be a solution.The pot feels sturdy to me. It isn't super thick but it doesn't need to be. It has the gauges in the side of the pot rather than in the middle of the lid like so many other pressure pots. I really like this design as it means the lid is kept as strong as possible without any holes in it. You don't have to worry about spider cracks with this one. The pot comes completely assembled too so you don't have to do anything.At first I could not get this thing to pull a vacuum for anything. I tried adjusting everything I could and tightening things I thought were already tight. Nothing helped. Eventually I pressed down hard on the glass lid and it suddenly kicked into gear and started pulling a vacuum. So if you have any issues try pressing down on the lid or flipping it over even. It pulled up to maybe 25 hg on the gauge within a matter of seconds but did not make it to 29. I didn't give it much time though as I didn't need that high of a vacuum for my purpose.At one point the pump started smoking, or so I thought it was smoke. I did some research and it turns out new vacuum pumps will generally emit oil vapor when it starts working hard which it was at the time. This will go away with some use. Figured this was important enough to include and hopefully it helps someone out.I used this to pull the bubbles out of some resin because I was working with uv resin and it has very few bubbles to begin with. It worked okay for this but it could have done a better job. That's fine because I got it for silicone for the most part and not resin.A vacuum chamber is great for making silicone molds and can technically be used for resin as well just with less success usually. Don't expect to get the same results as a pressure pot would give you. For silicone it pulls out 99% of the air and then the rest will come out when the mold is curing. The reason resin is difficult to work with is most of it has a pot time of 10 to 40 minutes which does not give you a lot of time between mixing it, adding colors, degassing it several times. That is a lot of work in a short time.For resin there is a technique to it and you need to degas the resin in a large container first then pour into your molds carefully trying not to introduce any extra air or bubbles. Then put that back in the vacuum chamber and pull a vacuum until the resin starts to rise and overflow and then let off a little bit and allow it to build up again. Repeat this several times until you are happy with it. Always be considering your pot time though as I said. You need to work with a resin that has a long pot time. The one caveat I have here is that the silicone mold you use must have been created using a vacuum chamber and have zero or near zero bubbles. Any bubbles in the mold can pop or deform the mold in the vacuum.

I was really excited when this was offered to me through the Vine program. Unfortunately, two different problems prevent me from using it. First, the O-ring necessary to seal the pump/hose connection was twisted into an S shape and crushed. Without it, the pump can't establish and hold a decent vacuum. Second, the vacuum chamber was shipped in a box without any "this end up" label (or anything that would give an insight to orientation). As a result, it was stored upside down and oil, necessary to keep the glass from cracking, leaked out of the vacuum gauge. An email to the vendor requesting assistance has gone unanswered.I'm not happy...