Category Archives: Tools

Boiling Water in a Vacuum at Room Temperature

My Vacuum pump and chamber arrived! I went for a Bacoeng 3 CFM Single Stage Oil Filled Rotary Vane Pump (BA-1) and a slightly more expensive tempered-glass-topped 6.8L vacuum chamber. I could have got the slightly cheaper perspex topped vacuum chamber, but this wasn’t that much more expensive. The glass one is safe against variousContinue reading “Boiling Water in a Vacuum at Room Temperature”

My Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus 3D Printer Upgrades

This is inspired by the “Prusa i3” range of 3D Printers. Even though its cheaper, this one still has a solid metal structure. I’ve heavily upgraded it: It would probably have been cheaper to simply buy a slightly more expensive printer, but I’ve gained an awful lot of knowledge on maintaining 3d printers doing itContinue reading “My Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus 3D Printer Upgrades”