 | | From: | jeff feehan | | Subject: | vacuum bagging - question for Eva | | Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:03:11 -0500 |
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 | Eva,
i really like your web site - the repairs are quite incredible.
anyway, i have a question: are you familiar with the electric pumps
tha women use for saving breast milk? would one of those pumps
be suitable for vacuum bagging?
the pump is exactly the one in this aspirator, without the collection
thing, and without a gauge. in other words i have the pump only.
http://www.dremed.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/265
thanks.
jeff
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| | From: | WillowBeach2 | | Subject: | Re: vacuum bagging - question for Eva | | Date: | Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:40:05 -0500 |
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| Eva,
I have looked through your repairs and am in awe....keep my eye out for a
hollmann on yachtworld...!
I have a question and its about the polystyrene I have seen in your
pictures..It was my understanding that better boards were made with 2psi, B
or C Grade styrene which I gather differs greatly from the Blue or White
styrene one sees at hardware stores....But in some of your pics, some of the
boards do seem to have the white styrene with large 'bubbles' similiar to
hardware grade?
What are our boards made out of and what is reasonable to expect?
Thanks!
Ben
"jeff feehan" wrote in message
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> Eva,
> i really like your web site - the repairs are quite incredible.
>
> anyway, i have a question: are you familiar with the electric pumps
> tha women use for saving breast milk? would one of those pumps
> be suitable for vacuum bagging?
>
> the pump is exactly the one in this aspirator, without the collection
> thing, and without a gauge. in other words i have the pump only.
>
> http://www.dremed.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/265
>
> thanks.
>
> jeff
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| | From: | superkraut | | Subject: | Re: vacuum bagging - question for Eva | | Date: | 17 Jan 2005 16:06:24 -0800 |
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jeff feehan wrote:
> Eva,
> i really like your web site - the repairs are quite incredible.
>
> anyway, i have a question: are you familiar with the electric pumps
> tha women use for saving breast milk? would one of those pumps
> be suitable for vacuum bagging?
>
> the pump is exactly the one in this aspirator, without the collection
> thing, and without a gauge. in other words i have the pump only.
>
> http://www.dremed.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/265
>
> thanks.
>
> jeff
Hi Jeff:
vacuum pump is vacuum pump. What matters is not its originally intended
application :) but rather its capacity, both in terms of vacuum level
(22"Hg is a whole lot more than your board can sustain) and flow rate
(28lpm is quite respectable - in a pinch one can draw down large bags
with a supplemental shop vac).
And I like the strainers and such on this model, to prevent stuff from
entering the pump - in our case salt water
Go for it!
Eva
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| | From: | jeff feehan | | Subject: | Re: vacuum bagging - question for Eva | | Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:09:43 -0500 |
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i will buy a gauge for my pump. it looks like there is
a valve or something on top of the pump that might be for
reducing the vacuum. so, it appears that breasts are a lot
stronger than boards.
jeff
superkraut wrote:
> jeff feehan wrote:
>
>>Eva,
>>i really like your web site - the repairs are quite incredible.
>>
>>anyway, i have a question: are you familiar with the electric pumps
>>tha women use for saving breast milk? would one of those pumps
>>be suitable for vacuum bagging?
>>
>>the pump is exactly the one in this aspirator, without the collection
>>thing, and without a gauge. in other words i have the pump only.
>>
>>http://www.dremed.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/265
>>
>>thanks.
>>
>>jeff
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> Hi Jeff:
> vacuum pump is vacuum pump. What matters is not its originally intended
> application :) but rather its capacity, both in terms of vacuum level
> (22"Hg is a whole lot more than your board can sustain) and flow rate
> (28lpm is quite respectable - in a pinch one can draw down large bags
> with a supplemental shop vac).
> And I like the strainers and such on this model, to prevent stuff from
> entering the pump - in our case salt water
> Go for it!
> Eva
>
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| | From: | Screamer268 | | Subject: | Re: vacuum bagging - question for Eva | | Date: | 17 Jan 2005 15:03:04 -0800 |
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joe wrote:
> ...forget it...
>
> Take the kompressor from old fridge and turn pipes in oposite
directio ...
Wait, don't forget it... I don't know about your lactation machine but
it appears very similar to the medical Gomco suction machines that are
prized by home vacuum baggers. Try it, slow but steady, it will
probably do the trick.
Refrigerators have issues:
Unless rigged carefully, refrigerator compressors will work for only a
short time before they run dry for lack of lubricant (in the closed
loop system they're designed for, machine oil is mixed into the freon
and is constantly lubricating the system). Refrig compressors are
awkward to handle and tend to be filthy and oily.
Still if finances are limited - here's why I'm writing - pick a
refrigerator motor where the freon has been properly reclaimed first!
There's around 10 cubic feet of freon (read: Chlorofluorocarbons) in a
twenty year-old, undrained, discarded refrigerator. Most states
mandate that transfer stations reclaim the freon before scrapping their
refrigerators, talk to your dump operators. The closest I ever felt to
being a Republican or a common eco-nazi was when a buddy and I needed a
compressor fast and we dissected the motor from an abandoned
refrigerator. Think about it.
Use the breast pump. BL
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| | From: | joe | | Subject: | Re: vacuum bagging - question for Eva | | Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:18:27 +0100 |
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| ....forget it...
Take the kompressor from old fridge and turn pipes in oposite directio ...
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| | From: | jeff feehan | | Subject: | Re: vacuum bagging - question for Eva | | Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:05:35 -0500 |
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i already have the pump. my youngest kid is 8 now, and i don't think
my wife will be using again - unless we have a big surprise.
jeff
joe wrote:
> ...forget it...
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> Take the kompressor from old fridge and turn pipes in oposite directio ...
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