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- From: danube@dirac.physics.sunysb.edu (Dan Koller*)
- Subject: High Vacuum Epoxy
- Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:46:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.154626.20676@dirac.physics.sunysb.edu>
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- Does anybody know the absolute ultimate lowest obtainable outgass
- rate of Varian's "Torr-Seal" high vacuum epoxy? Varian Spec. sheets
- only list confusing figures, after short 130 degree bakeouts. I would
- like to know if baking out for a week or so at 130 deg. C will help
- bring the outgass rate below 10e-8 Torr-liter/cm^2/second.
- I would like to use the epoxy to seal sapphire windows to a small
- (1 cm^3) glass chamber, pump it down to better than 10e-7 torr, and then
- seal it off. The problem is that the epoxy seems to be outgassing at
- a rate high enough to bring the pressure to 1 mTorr in a minute or so.
- This is to be expected from Varian's published outgass rates, but my
- question is, can I do better?
- Finally, if epoxy won't work, is there a better way of attaching
- sapphire or Silicon windows to glass?
- Thanks in advance.
- Danube
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