<VV> Engineering VS Fact

Ron ronh at owt.com
Thu Aug 10 13:17:00 EDT 2006


It may look like it but is it the same inside?
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Yarnell" <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>
To: "Smitty Smith" <vairologist at verizon.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Engineering VS Fact


> 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
>
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>  -----------------------------------------------------
>>  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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