pressure cooker for stabilizer?

[jawilder]

with the recent talk about building equipment to stabilize wood, I've found many will use a pressurized paint pot. HF has them for $80 but I wonder if an old pressure cooker with the wing nuts would be just as good assuming it still holds pressure.

Similar to the one seen here

What are your thoughts?

 

[cdent]

Even regular pressure cookers can be modified to work. I just wanted to add that if your cooker doesn't hold pressure, replacement gaskets are normally easy to get and inexpensive online.

Good luck with the project, Craig

 

[Shaughnessy]

I would not. I started with the mason jar, then the pressure cooker, and finally the paint pot. I would go with something thats rated for high pressure like the 80 PSI and can withstand the vacuum.

That said.....Theres guys still using pickle jars wrapped in duct tape in case they implode or explode.

The paint pot goes on sale all the time at HF, I think mine was $50-60. Its worth the peace of mind to me and the extra few bucks IMO.

Larry

 

[69_knives]

Those national pressure cookers don't use gaskets, just a metal to metal seal. They're rated to 'pop' the safety valve at about 20 PSI but you 'could' circumvent the safetys but I don't recommend it.

I just remembered reading in the literature for mine, although yours looks to be an older unit, my documentation says there are like 3 safety measures, one being the metal will distort at a certain pressure letting pressure escape.

 

[marekz]

ok so you get the paint pot- then you need a vacuum pump with atleast 6 cmf--right? then you connect the pump to the pot and get a guage to watch the pressure while inside the pot the is yet another pot filled with your wood and the resin-right? then you wait how long? or to what pressure? then you take it out and your ah done--is that kinda how it works-thanks marekz