Hi Folks!
Went out to the fabulous PA yesterday to meet up with NoL and drop off my busted ss and cascade for repairs and upgrades. NoL has very kindly agreed to take on the work....this is essentially clean-up work of the poor job done by sdumper (the original build log for the cascade is here). Both units are completely dead atm, not sure what the issue is with the ss, the cascade has a stage 2 leak.
NoL's going to start tearing down the cascade in the next week and figure out where the leak is and take care of it. He'll also be working/looking at different ways to improve the load handling and temps on both. After having been essentially dead in the benching water these past bunch of months, I'm super excited so figured I'd create this thread to give updates, bounce ideas, post pics, etc.
Early days but NoL has provided a couple of ideas already. The first is something like what's described here. Another is setting the ss and/or cascade up so that the evap temp can be controlled (ie- variable temperature control). Besides repairs/mods to the ss and cascade, he also mentioned the possibility of modifying (adding a device) to the top of my dewar (thanks Witchdoctor!) that'll allow me to set a target temperature and the device will automatically control the flow of ln2 to the pot to hit and maintain a specific temperature.
VERY excited!!! Will update this thread as I get updates, pics, etc as NoL starts to work his way through.
HUGE thank you out to NoL for agreeing to take on this effort!!!!
Went out to the fabulous PA yesterday to meet up with NoL and drop off my busted ss and cascade for repairs and upgrades. NoL has very kindly agreed to take on the work....this is essentially clean-up work of the poor job done by sdumper (the original build log for the cascade is here). Both units are completely dead atm, not sure what the issue is with the ss, the cascade has a stage 2 leak.
NoL's going to start tearing down the cascade in the next week and figure out where the leak is and take care of it. He'll also be working/looking at different ways to improve the load handling and temps on both. After having been essentially dead in the benching water these past bunch of months, I'm super excited so figured I'd create this thread to give updates, bounce ideas, post pics, etc.
Early days but NoL has provided a couple of ideas already. The first is something like what's described here. Another is setting the ss and/or cascade up so that the evap temp can be controlled (ie- variable temperature control). Besides repairs/mods to the ss and cascade, he also mentioned the possibility of modifying (adding a device) to the top of my dewar (thanks Witchdoctor!) that'll allow me to set a target temperature and the device will automatically control the flow of ln2 to the pot to hit and maintain a specific temperature.
VERY excited!!! Will update this thread as I get updates, pics, etc as NoL starts to work his way through.
HUGE thank you out to NoL for agreeing to take on this effort!!!!
