Make A Glove Box

Save considerable expense because they build your personal glove box.

A homemade glove box could be built from components that are simple to locate at the local home improvement store or perhaps a welding shop. You may create an inert and moisture-free atmosphere that's effective to handle both air-sensitive and hygroscopic substances. You are able to assemble your glove box in under each day, giving your cost-effective and space-efficient option to the big industrial boxes. Homemade glove boxes are fantastic products to possess in chemistry labs.

Instructions

Box Construction

1. Bore two glove holes using the drill saw fitted having a screw pilot around the front side from the acrylic box roughly three inches up in the base. Drill a clean-out hole around the right box panel despite the glove holes.

2. Seal the glove holes and clean-out hole by mounting the male plugs and clean-out adapter within this area and pushing the connector finishes out with the holes. Use silicone adhesive to secure them in position.

3. Measure 2 " in and a pair of inches up in the back and bottom sides from the box around the left panel and mark a drill hole. Drill a gas/vacuum outlet/inlet. Place the needle valve in to the hole and secure with silicone adhesive.

4. Glue this area walls together and bore an opening using the screw pilot each and every intersection corner. Fill each hole with silicone and secure with screws.

Finishing this area

5. Install draw hasps on top panel in front and rear from the box, 3½ inches in from each edge.

6. Attach weather draining on the top from the frame. Adhere bumpers towards the bottom side from the box each and every corner.

7. Apply vacuum grease between your test plug and clean-out adapter to close. Screw within the test plug.

8. Place mitts with the PVC male plugs. Cut these to the right length and wrap outdoors finish from the glove within the connection finish from the adapter. Screw the feminine plugs in to the male plugs to carry the mitts in position.

Ensure an Inert Atmosphere

9. Purge this area with argon for just one hour.

10. Conduct a 72-hour chemical moisture test to make certain all water is absent.

11. Perform an oxygen test. It ought to prove that polyethylene mitts are semipermeable, permitting oxygen to enter the atmosphere.