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Subject: Re: A heretical thought
Date:
Poster: Jim Lux

On , Jim Lux wrote:

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>BTW is creating a hard vaccum in a large sphere more difficult compared to a smaller sphere?.

yes.. more surface area to outgas.. Other than that, and once baked out, large chambers aren't particularly harder. You'll need a bigger pump.
I work about 100 meters from a chamber that is 30 meters high and 10 meters in diameter with the most gigantic diff pumps I've ever seen.