How To Build an Oil Sprengel Vacuum Pump

In this video, I'd like to show you a sprengel pump I made, using oil instead of mercury, and pipe-fittings instead of glass. I'll walk you though how I made it, and how you can make one for your own small-chamber, high-vacuum projects, in my typically exhaustive and dryly humorous fashion.

Hope you enjoy it! Comment if you have any questions.

Chapters:

Intro: 0:00
Drilling the Air Vent Hole (Optional): 3:02
Assembling Pipe Manifold: 5:25
Flame Polishing, Flaring, and Installing the Dripper: 10:29
Fluxing and Reassembling Pipe Manifold: 14:45
Soldering the Pipe Manifold: 16:54
Cleaning the Pipe Manifold and Cutting Out the Stand: 20:12
Cutting Holes for the Pump and Switch: 24:54
Installing the Pump: 28:40
Soldering In the Switch and Power Supply: 29:26
Bringing It All Together: 32:00
Moment of Truth: 35:11
Conclusions and Outro 40:40

Instructable:
https://www.instructables.com/Oil-Spr...

Parts list:

Pipe Manifold:
1x 1/4" Brass Plug:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-...
3x 1/4" Brass Tee-Fitting:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-...
2x 1/4" Brass Needle Valve:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/JONES-STE...
2x 1/4" x Close Brass Nipples:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-...
1x 1/4" x 4" Nipple:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-...
1x 1/4" x 3" Nipple:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-...
1x 1/4" x 6" Nipple:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/STZ-1-4-i...
3x 1/4" x 1/8" Barb Fittings:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/LTWFITTIN...
1x 1/4" Elbow Fitting:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-...
1x 1/4" NPT Vacuum Gauge:
https://www.grainger.com/product/20TV...
1x Glass Medicine Dropper
https://www.homesciencetools.com/prod...

Stand:
1x 1/2" x 1ft x 2ft Birch Plywood Project Panel
https://www.homedepot.com/p/ProWood-1...
3x 1/2" Copper Pipe Straps:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Oatey-1-2...
6x #8 x 1/2" Wood Screws:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/8-x-1-2-i...

Pump:
1x 6V Peristaltic Pump:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3910...
2x #4-40 Nuts and Bolts:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/4-40-x-3-...
4x #6 Washers:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-...
1x Rocker Switch:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/d...
1x 6V 1A AC/DC Power Supply:
https://www.newark.com/pro-elec/28-19...

Oil:
(Cheaper than I used) Vacuum Pump Oil, with an Actual Rating for less than 0.0001 Pa!
https://www.vacoil.com/vacoil-20-grad...

Credits:
Writing, Audio Narration, Audio/Video Compositing and Editing, and pretty much everything else unless stated otherwise:
Gabriel Wolffe

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Music composed by:
Mykola Sosin:
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https://pixabay.com/users/mfcc-286277...
Ivgen Poltavski:
https://pixabay.com/users/hitslab-473...
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https://pixabay.com/users/lnplusmusic...
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Mykola Odnoroh:
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Grand_Project:
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Video Editing Performed with:
Movavi Video Editor 24:
https://www.movavi.com/