PennedDown
Member
In the last couple of months I have tried various methods of stabilizing some spalted, punky blanks and have also delved into the pr casting using a unisonic cleaner to be bubble free. I've also reserached the use of HF vaccum pumps, and also looked around for a refrigerator compressor that would pull vaccum.
Well, on my sometimes typical Saturday morning trip to the hardware store to purchase some threaded rod for a draw bar, I thought I would check out the garage sales in the neighborhood that was going on. On the last one, not expecting much, I spotted this under a table from a half-block away.
http://www.activeforever.com/p-5338...px?cm_mmc=shp-_-medical-supplies-_-na-_-13795&
When I leaned down to check it out the man there said "Son (I'm 51
) that ain't no compressor, that's a vaccum pump. It sucks, it don't blow" Well when I told him I was looking for something that sucks (got a weird look out of that),
the wife siad "we'll take 3 dollars for that", and I said if it runs I'll take it. Ran like a champ, and as I put my finger over the tube the gauge drew down to 27hg..I believe that's more than enough...., and this unit looked like it was brand new. The only thing missing was the collection jar (thank goodness), but I won't use that anyway, however I was thinking later that the collection jar itself could possibly serve as a small vaccum chamber itself...hmmmmm
I came home, and looked up the specs and what these would sell for. The cheapest ones I could find was $252.00
Now I'm going to build my vaccum chamber out of the 7" PVC pipe that is on a thread here, and hopefully be in business.
Any thoughts or has someone used these before?
Well, on my sometimes typical Saturday morning trip to the hardware store to purchase some threaded rod for a draw bar, I thought I would check out the garage sales in the neighborhood that was going on. On the last one, not expecting much, I spotted this under a table from a half-block away.
http://www.activeforever.com/p-5338...px?cm_mmc=shp-_-medical-supplies-_-na-_-13795&
When I leaned down to check it out the man there said "Son (I'm 51
) that ain't no compressor, that's a vaccum pump. It sucks, it don't blow" Well when I told him I was looking for something that sucks (got a weird look out of that), the wife siad "we'll take 3 dollars for that", and I said if it runs I'll take it. Ran like a champ, and as I put my finger over the tube the gauge drew down to 27hg..I believe that's more than enough...., and this unit looked like it was brand new. The only thing missing was the collection jar (thank goodness), but I won't use that anyway, however I was thinking later that the collection jar itself could possibly serve as a small vaccum chamber itself...hmmmmm
I came home, and looked up the specs and what these would sell for. The cheapest ones I could find was $252.00
Now I'm going to build my vaccum chamber out of the 7" PVC pipe that is on a thread here, and hopefully be in business.
Any thoughts or has someone used these before?
