OK well some amazon and ebay and Home depot later and I give up....
I took the Gauge off the clear lexan and placed it on my casting pot. I have 2 Vacuum gauges that are for Cars now one from ebay and one from Amazon, neither of which will go on a pot so I took the gauge off the one I can look in and put it on the one I cant.
Here is my plan:
I vacuum degas in the Lexan pot. I watch for rise and burp as needed. once degassed (ceases to fall) I then remove it from my lexan pot and pour my mold.
I then transfer my mold to my Casting pot. I then draw 28-29 mB vacuum for several seconds (20-30??) and release vacuum and start with pressure. I pressurize it for 3-4 hours until it "gels" or so and allow to cure.
I now have a mold to cast in using the split mold method.
when casting I plan to pull 28-29 mB vacuum on the part, allowing bubbles to leave the mold, for a few seconds (again 20-30) and then switch to pressure for the remainder of cure time. then remove my new part.
My plan for casting is some shoulderpads, heads, legs and torsos for my Monkey Marines. From there doing some red scorpion stuff for my army.
NOW with this plan should I have problems (I really dont need anymore of them!!) or am I actually going into overkill??
Here is my setup currently
pot with pressure and vacuum gauges
Lexan pot with ball valve to close off missing gauge hole
vacuum
vacuum connected to lexan pot via quick connect
Vacuum connected to pot via quick connect
Notice I had to remove my Handel to allow the gauges to go on and the odd placement of my connections are to allow the closures room to spin AND more important to make the hook ups fool resistant (side is vacuum and straight is pressure)
Im hoping this goes well as I have STILL not cast a mold yet......