Automatic Vaccum Testing Pot Needed

Hi, that's not GSK in Harlow England is it? I work in a small company just across the road from a BIG GSK complex!

If you put it in a V small chamber and pumped it down (wouldn't need to be a very hard vacuum) and left it for a few sends would that do it? Would it be obvious that the seal was intact? E.G Presumably the sachet would be flat and deflated?

Del (I'm the one waving out of the window)

Hi, Budgie,

Don't know of anything off-the-shelf (someone else here may), but maybe folk here could hash out a few ideas for a design - you'd then have to find someone (you'd have to pay!) to do the detailed design & make it. (Sorry, I'm out of that - I'm at full capacity for the next 6 - 8 months).

Why not register & come back - we'll see what can be done?

Can the visual inspection be replaced by a mechanical inspection?

For example: Loss or gain of weight. Material on filter. Absorbing of light etc.

What you need is called a bombing station. In this technique, the part is pressurized with helium or a mixture of helium and air, and tested by one of the following methods:Measuring Leaks To determine the total quantity of leakage (but not the numberor location of leaks), the part is pressurized with helium(or a mixture of helium and air or nitrogen). This can be doneby bombing or backfilling small hermetically sealed parts.Larger parts can be actively pressurized using a hose or tubingto deliver the helium. The part is placed in a volume that isthen evacuated by the leak detector. All the helium escaping from the part is captured and quantified.

Rather than type this, I admit i lifted it from the Varian catalog. Go here...

http://www.varianinc.com/image/vimage/docs/products/vacuum/leakdetect/shared/leakdetect-catalog.pdf