I think I may be carrying the worlds heaviest vac pump.

Normally I use a Javac shark,but at the moment it is getting repaired.

In the meantime I have been using "the brick".

"The brick" is a home made vac pump made by my off sider some 25 years ago. It consists of a meter miser compressor surrounded by metal casing with two hand valves attached to it.

Weight of shark about 6kg.
Weight of brick about 31 kg.

You lift that up and down a ladder 6 times a day and you start to miss your old vac pump.

Apparently my off sider carried "the brick" around for 15 years.

Have to hand it to "the brick" though.25 years young and has never had to be repaired unlike the shark (2 years).