<VV> Engineering VS Fact

[Harry Yarnell]

Yup, my Snap-On A/C vacuum pump, sure looks like a refrigerator compressor.

Harry Yarnell
Perryman Garage and Orphanage
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Smitty Smith" <vairologist at verizon.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:48 PM
Subject: <VV> Engineering VS Fact


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>
> From: FrankCB at aol.com
>
> All good points, except that I would be surprised if a refrigerator
> compressor could "pull" a deep enough vacuum to remove nearly all the air 
> from an A/C system.
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>  Smitty Says:  Here's one of those cases that shows that bumble bees can 
> fly Frank.  I have been using my evolved and modified Frigidare 
> refrigerator compressor for at least 20 years.  It will pull an indicated 
> 30 inches in about 30 seconds.  I have hand valves fitted to hold what the 
> compressor draws.  As a side note the only lube it has ever received is 
> what gets into it as a function of drawing down to reclaim freon from 
> systems.    So There   gg
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