I purchased a Gast rotary vane pump years ago from Surplus Center online for $60 and it was clearly new old stock. I took it to a local distributor to get a check valve, filter, and some other stuff and the own said he knew that pump was built for IBM for a computer system and it was built for continuous duty for 20 years. He said IBM's bulk pricing was around $800. I've recommended to several folks Surplus Center for vacuum pumps as they usually have surplus Gast pumps. The last few times I've looked there they only had 220V pumps. There are also always many Gast pumps on Ebay. Mine is 3/4HP and draws my vacuum bag down quickly...joe
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--- In felder-woodworking@..., "Cliff Rohrabacher, Esq" <rohrabacher@...> wrote:
I have a never-used brand new when I got it, twin stage rotary vein
Sargent Welsh high performance vacuum pump that I've been letting sit
idle for years while I dither with ideas like that one as well as
vacuum veneering.
On 5/9/2012 10:53 AM, Richard Selwyn wrote:
I use a Festool Vac Sys kit which I attach to a Festool bench or sometimes to my very low tech, height adjustable cart.
I know the VACS is not available in the US (yet) but there are many similar things around. Cost me about $2,000 all in with the pump, two swivel bases and 6 different vacuum heads. Probably the best investment I've ever made in the shop. My cheapo cart was about $400 - not so good - I'de prefer a hospital bed style arrangement.
I think if I had the money I'd be tempted by one the Vakuucars, but I agree that with the ingenuity of the FOG it should be easy to go the home-made route.
Richard.
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