MetalicaRap
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| Description | documenting an electron beam sintering tool head and high vacuum chamber.(early development phase).
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MetalicaRap Working Notes
This has 5 elemets; electron gun, High Vacuum chamber, roughing pump, oil diffusion pump and metal powder dispenser.
Design Discussion Electron gun 3KW hot cathode gun
High vacuum chamber Stainless steel High vacuum ten to the minus 5 Tor / (mm mercury) NiCr Alloy (10-16) Hexagonalx40 halfhexagonalx16 endpiecesx16 384 bolts copper wire, future ; airlock so print while repump, main door Viton O ring (Euro ).
Roughing pump Vane pump ( initially purchased)
Oil diffusion pump using existing EBS build design
metal powder dispenser options include ; screw/ trough design; feed chamber build chamber; others
A rough sketch made in Blender of a vacuum chamber made from hexagonal parts printed in a MetalicaRap. Anders
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Current status
Electron gun test repstrap vacuum chamber including pumps and gauges maintenance. Current tech team; 3 software developers, Ultra high vacuum metal deposition specialist, High voltage system designer. We are particularly looking out for experienced electron gun designers (accelerator/electronmicroscope).
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Files and Parts
Sub Assemblies and Related
EBS=Elcectron beam sinterer.
sequence - electron gun parts repstrapped EBS. Assembled tested in repstrap vacuum chamber. Metal powder deposition mechanism parts repstraped EBS . Gun depoosition assembled tested. MetalicarapVacuumChamber parts Electron beam sintered by our system. MetalicarapVacuumchamber assembled tested. 5 Elements assembled and tested.
