
What’s up y’all, I’ve recently gotten back into casting after about a decade hiatus, so I’m shopping around for gear and have most of what I need on the way.I thought I was set, but then I read something that gave me cause for concern.I was a broke college kid last time I did this so I made My chamber and found a Craigslist pump. This time around I’ve gone pre fab and bought a 2 gallon acrylic top aluminum chamber for starters, and Bezos has got the resins and some molds/silicone showing up tomorrow. Check, check.But now we get the the crux of the matter dear friends. I admittedly have a bit of a caveman brain and so in purchasing the pump I may have gone a bit wide of the mark... 1/4hp and 3cfm hmmm okay that’s what everyone else has got... 1hp 8cfm *caveman brain engages HM *grunts BIGGER PUMP BETTER, aaaaand place bid.Now I’ve never seen an implosion, but whenever they are referenced in science they are usually the beginning to a cataclysmic event or a nuclear reaction about to pop off, so I’m not exactly thrilled at the prospect of one happening in my second bedroom.I have had no luck what so ever finding any sort of guidance or parameters for sizing the pump to the chamber or what the upper limits might be as far as CFM per volume of chamber. Also my second thought was: okay if 4cfm is sufficient for one and I have 8, could I just split the line and draw down vacuum in two chambers - again nothing. All the posts are about attaching two pumps to one chamber, not the other way around for in situations like these where someone (me) wins a $300 dual stage pump for $40 lol.Anybody have any advice what so ever? Did I make a bomb? Will I be okay? Should I just say f*** it and film it so we find out together?Thanks for your time_DCP via /r/ResinCasting https://ift.tt/2UuJBGE
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