An absolute emotional rollercoaster. We've been back so many times, I've lost count
The first reaction to make Lanarkite (PbO + PbSO4) is running in the furnace! We opted to do 80% in an open air alumina crucible and 20% in a sealed quartz tube
PbO + PbSO4 from Sigma. Thanks for the fast shipping!
Take it to a very fine powder. A little bit of clumping.
This was a great test run of the quartz vacuum sealing rig. We were at 3e-3torr when we sealed off. It went smoothly enough for a first effort. I gave it 5min at vacuum to flash off any moisture in the powder.
Oxy torch. Notice the tube collapses and pinches off due to internal vacuum.
Safely in the oven. As requested, we're doing a live stream. It's bring your own audio.
For 5 minutes before the wifi went down, we were top ten on Twitch with 16,000 viewers.
Please follow @zebulgar. We need to help him boost his metrics. Can't monetize until 15mil views.
DAQ says we've been holding steady all night. Surpringly low ripple on the furnace. For the nerds out there, the stack is Codesys, Ethercat, Beckhoff, OPAUA, Docker, Influx, Grafana.
Livestream going down for a few hours. The engineer needed his laptop back.....
Copper phosphide stuck in customs in Poland
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Made good progress on the list of to-dos. I'm doing this all after-hours, so it's been a long day. Since we're gated by the delivery of the PbO + Pb(SO4), which should be tomorrow, we're working on infrastructure first.
Getting the DAQ set up. Will do multi channel thermocouple probes in furnace to ensure best control. We verified 930°C with our small 6"x6"x6" furnace. All data logged to Influx so we can verify ramp rates.
We're taking over the deep storage corner of the warehouse. Some other hobbies are visible in the background. Still trying to get Elon to send it up on Starship.
Our TVAC chamber (Sucky McSuckFace) will provide the 1e-5torr vacuum source we need. Dry multistage roots + turbo.