Results 1 to 3 of 3
Thread: Vacuum Gauges
-
30-10-2006, 01:14 PM #1
Veteran Poster
- Join Date
- Dec 2005
- Location
- Cheshire
- Age
- 39
- Posts
- 264
- Rep Power
- 21
Vacuum Gauges
What vacuum gauge/setup do you use/recommend for splits?
Anyone use the ones that fit on the manifold in replace of the low side gauge or the in-line ones? (so that you can get futher away from the vac)
I've got the robinair 15600 5 cfm vac.
Thanks
-
30-10-2006, 01:46 PM #2
regular poster
- Join Date
- Nov 2005
- Location
- Liverpool
- Age
- 49
- Posts
- 56
- Rep Power
- 19
Re: Vacuum Gauges
I use a REFCO Torr gauge from SRW. It's 0-100mbar. Manifold-mounted vacuum gauges (typically 0-1000mbar) aren't much good for seeing the small-ish rise in pressure (decrease in vacuum) when the system you're vaccing out isn't completely dry.
It's like measuring the diameter of a 1mm drill bit with a metre-stick!
These are much more expensive (£170) as opposed to £40 for a vacuum gauge. I use the spare port on my manifold to connect it.
Hope this helps!
DMac
-
17-11-2006, 08:58 AM #3
Veteran Poster
- Join Date
- Dec 2005
- Location
- Cheshire
- Age
- 39
- Posts
- 264
- Rep Power
- 21
Re: Vacuum Gauges
Thanks mate thats what I needed to hear!
