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Originally Posted by Crex
Save your lips - go to Harbor Freight and buy one of those cheap brake bleeder pump kits (coupon is good to use here). Simple to set up and you can get a nice easy vacuum pull with just a couple of squeezes. Plus you don't have to figure out how to get the red epoxy off your teeth.....
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Ha! Yeah, I guess the wording in the original post was a little vague on that point: but yeah, I used (and still use) a little hand held vacuum pump that came with a brake bleeding kit.
Grainger is a great source for the tubing too. For small diameter nickle silver wire, you can find spools for pretty cheap online.
Hitting a slow cure epoxy with a heat gun to thin it works really well too (picked that one up from Sandy Jack). I think the reason that original experiment worked well is the addition of the ink accelerated the cure, which in turn increased the heat and thereby thinned the epoxy. Heat gun works the same way, but in reverse.