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How to Make a Vacuum Pump

This video will show how to make a vacuum pump, a device that can be used to suck the air out of sealed environments. This is the same pump I use to operate my vacuum cannon seen here: • How to Make a ...
You're building the truck of your dreams, complete with an updated chassis and killer paintwork. You admit you went a little too far when building the engine, but the horsepower in your eyes kept you ...
The last time we had this 470-inch Mopar big block on the dyno, it made 751 hp with Trick Flow heads and a dry sump oiling system. The dry sump setup that we used for those tests worked great, but it ...
The three-stage scroll vacuum pump from Air Squared Inc., Broomfield, Colo. (www.airsquared.com), can produce vacuums up to 5 mTorr (6.5 × 10-6 atm) without a turbopump. That’s about 10 times the ...
Have you heard of the Sprengel pump? It’s how they drew hard vacuum back before mechanical pumps were perfected — the first light bulbs had their vacuums drawn with Sprengel pumps, for example. It ...