Vacuum bagging help
10-24-2002, 11:52 PM
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I am borrowing my friends vacuum bagging accessories and have wanted to get my own system. He got a used vacuum pump from a hospital. The only place I know is ACP but I hate paying that price when one of you know how to get a setup cheaper. Appreciate suggestions for attaining a system, private emails are fine at [email protected] thanks in advance, Jeff Williams
10-25-2002, 02:19 AM
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10-25-2002, 11:13 AM
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I built a very versatile system very cheaply. I had to buy a vacuum switch, a vacuum gauge and a tank. One of those tanks you keep in the trunk for emergency flats. I scrounged an old refrigerator compressor free, a few fittings and some tubing. The whole lot cost me about $70.00.
I purchased the gauge and switch from APC. With the switch is a circuit diagram for the whole system.
I can adjust the vacuum from zero to about 26hg.
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I purchased the gauge and switch from APC. With the switch is a circuit diagram for the whole system.
I can adjust the vacuum from zero to about 26hg.
Ed s
10-25-2002, 11:31 AM
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You can even save a couple of bucks by making the tank from a piece of large diameter PVC drain pipe with a pair of carefully glued on end caps.
10-25-2002, 03:11 PM
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Ollie, thanks for those links. I might try a refrig pump and get the other stuff from ACP. I like the vacuum bagging now that I have done it once. My buddy did the pvc with end caps and a mercury gauge in the middle it works great. Jeff W.
