Question about filling voids in pressure chamber

[Raif Harik]

Hi, when filling voids in pieces of wood in the past I have had some crazy adventures. Build up bizarre dams and so on. More often then not, when I get to turning I end up with a big old air bubble right at the surface level I need. It's pretty much always a debacle. So I started thinking, what about using a pressure pot to make sure the epoxy gets all the way down into the void and there isn't an epoxy void in the middle. So in thinking about that, I wonder, do I need to put my whole bowl in a vat of epoxy and pressurize that? Or can I do it in a more targeted manner. It would kind of suck to half turn a bowl notice some voids, and then end up with a bucket sized blank when I'm done. Just wondering how folks do it.
Thanks,
Raif

 

[Richard Coers]

I assume you read this? https://www.aawforum.org/community/threads/epoxy-fill.21946/#post-231681

 

[Raif Harik]

Yes, I did after my post. Sorry. But was wondering if when you use the pressure pot, do you need to engulf the entire piece or, is say the whole is on the bottom half can you just submerge that part.
Thx

 

[Russell Nugent]

Yes, I did after my post. Sorry. But was wondering if when you use the pressure pot, do you need to engulf the entire piece or, is say the whole is on the bottom half can you just submerge that part.
Thx

I think you'd be fine just doing the bottom if that's where the void is. The other thing you can do instead of having a big block of resin is fill up most of the space inside with scrap wood.