HOW TO – Build your own Vacuum pump

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HOW TO – Build your own Vacuum pump

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Here’s how to make a vacuum pump from a fridge compressor unit. Thanks Bf5man! – Link.

4 thoughts on “HOW TO – Build your own Vacuum pump

  1. mister.joshua says:

    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.

  2. mutz says:

    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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