HOW TO - Build your own Vacuum pump

Here's how to make a vacuum pump from a fridge compressor unit. Thanks Bf5man! - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Apr 18, 2006 08:20 PM
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| Posted by: mister.joshua on April 18, 2006 at 7:50 PM |
I came across this simpler version:
http://www.berkut13.com/sucker.htm
It may turn out you need the switch mechanism, but I would at least try something easier first.
| Posted by: mutz on April 19, 2006 at 2:43 AM |
My father has made a pressure pump out of an old fridge engine together with a 'vessel' from the break system of an old truck... it can deliver upto 10 bar. you can airbrush with shoot staples, etc...
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