#1 Making a Sputtering Magnetron 

wow. great job. very refreshing to see a machinist making something other than more tools. actually making something with the tools.

great build, very interested in this series. thanks for sharing.

This is very great lesson

Looking forward for next video

Excellent work

nice video i also like the retro sounds in your intro

This is amazing. Fantastic work!

As always, very cool project. Thanks.

Absolutely brilliant video

i like this. Great technic!

Your boring timelapses are always exiting

Nice !!

You know, I was just trying to decide if it was worth it to buy a junked out 40 year old electron sputtering machine on ebay. But fuck it, I think I'll build my own now

Nice intro blondiehacks 😄

To make a dielctric mirorr you need to control the thickness of the coating.

It is an amazing work! Please, tell me if your equipament could be used to aluminizing telescope mirrors. I'm a physicist but I don't have 10% of your technical knowledge and tools to make that sputtering equipament. Nevertheless, my great motivation is produce telescope mirrors by myself. In Brazil, the amateaur astronomers can count on a few professionals to aluminizer glass blocks. But the Brazil is a huge country and in my state I don't know anyone to make it by sputtering technique. My initial intent is learning to use the lathe, but I don't know the next steps. Could you give-me some advices?

Could you tell us more about your glass dome? What material is it made from? Did you buy a commercial part? Did you make the seal on the bottom of the dome--if so, what from?

Wow

Thank you for your video!! How large is the gap between the stainless steel anode and the sputtering copper cathode, and why don't you run in to a problem with a plasma forming in between the stainless and copper on all sides since the copper is sheathed by the stainless? How large is the gap between the copper and stainless on the sides and bottom? Thanks again!!

Hi, what is the machine you're using to measure the vacuum?

Do you have cad models or technical drawings and a materials list for this design? I’d like to replicate it if allowed for an educational/research project and I have all of the equipment minus the milling machine which will be built or bought beforehand.

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Hello my name is Branden I also build lasers I am not privileged enough yet to have a lathe to help assist my endeavors, I just do as the universe wishes and for some reason things seem to always work out as long as I don't fight the universe! Right now I'm experimenting with yag crystals and I have one I already made with a bit of test substrate I made with chemistry and electrolysis I also scraped electronics for some high end material like gold. Anyways maybe you sputtered bizmark cause I need mirrors made of bizmark I would love to send you yag crystals if you would be interested in sending me mirrors and beam splitters. My end goal is to make a laser in Wich no electricity is needed simply put two materials in contact and lasing occurs. I plan on looking into verious proteins like bioluminescent fungi because fungi I can take nearly as much samples from as I need without having to harm a living creature, that is very important to me as stated before I live by the universe.

Thank you so much for sharing this great job, i have questions.you connected the + wire to the copper but where did you connect the negative wire? Do you have a diffusion pump as well or just a mechanic vacuum pump?