In reply to Jack Cole's message of Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:23:05 -0600: Hi, [snip] >It's very difficult to make this type of seal. When the cement is wet, the >hydrogen easily passes through. I use a dangerous gas detector as I heat >it up, but as yet, have not achieved a seal in experiments I've tried. A >lot of the cement requires heating to fully cure, but heating causes >hydrogen release. Your hydrogen escapes before the seal is made. Maybe >Parkhomov figured out how to do it.
Why not heat the seal before hand with an external heat source (e.g. welding torch)? The hydrogen is then still chemically bound to the LiAl at low temperature inside the reactor. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
