Hi Robert, that looks similar to an old vacuum tube furnace I used for generation of endohedral metalofullerenes and other novel nanoscale materials. You wouldn't happen to have an Nd-Yag laser sitting around do you, we can get you hooked up doing some pulsed laser deposition experimental physics work!
You could make a pretty good living making and selling purified C60 and higher fullerenes!
-Darren