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I made a half-arsed attempt at replicating this a while back. The stuff I noted for my next attempt: As your vacuum increases, the hand/wrist will be pulled f
by dlytle 15y ago
I made a half-arsed attempt at replicating this a while back. The stuff I noted for my next attempt:
As your vacuum increases, the hand/wrist will be pulled further into the chamber. You have to have something to hold inside the chamber that is anchored to the chamber, or a container where having the fist jammed up against the back wall is reasonably comfortable. (My original attempt: using juice concentrate cans rather than flowing water through a handle. I wanted to avoid flowing water if at all possible.)
Due to the whole "arm getting pulled inside" thing, the wrist seal is more troublesome than I hoped. My next try is going to use a dry diving suit wrist-seal.
You want as small an interior volume as possible if using a manual air pump. It's much more time consuming than you'd think to hand-pump the air out and achieve the desired vacuum. I wouldn't want to risk using an automatic air pump in this case, myself, so I'm sticking with the hand pump while reducing the interior space of the container.
Let me know if you have success with this; or, heck, even if you don't, because you'll probably have some good advice as a result.