good vacuum pump and maniflod guages?

[cammok5]

im going to be buying a vacuum pump and maniflold guages soon to do some a/c work. what do you guys recomend?

 

[55bigblockcid]

http://www.fieldpiece.com/digital-manifolds

http://www.appioninc.com/products/tez8features.html

 

[malibu101]

The GarageJournal is a great place to ask this to get great answers and those answers will help out others on here.

But I must show you another forum that deals purely with auto A/C. The company that runs the board I have bought parts from a few times with fine success.
http://www.autoacforum.com/

To answer your question- I have an older Yellow Jacket R12/R22 manifold and adapters so I can use it with R134A systems. I borrow a vacuum pump from a buddy for the few times I need it.

 

[Danglerb]

im going to be buying a vacuum pump and maniflold guages soon to do some a/c work. what do you guys recomend?

Doing it prior to April or May, by the end of June AC work is crazy and no deals are around.

Except for some issues with the gauges, valves, and hoses the HF isn't bad.

 

[A_Pmech]

Yellow Jacket makes a very good product. I have several of their tools, including one of their vacuum pumps and I think it's great. Master Cool is another big name. I have a manifold made by them and it's also a great unit.

 

[Full Throttle]

Yellow Jacket is all I use, gauges and Pumps.

If you are doing just auto, do not get a big cfm vac pump, if you can find a 2-4 cfm pump would be great. If you pull a vacume to fast you can actually freeze droplets of moisture before they boil off.

I use a 4 cfm for small residential and auto (I just crack the valves in auto till I get below 1000 microns)

 

[Skin]

if its just for your personal vehicles HF sells both and they are perfectly adequate for the home owner. If the systems arent empty though you should really have it done by a proper facility that can capture and recycle the refrigerant.

 

[pop pop]

Yellow Jacket is all I use, gauges and Pumps.

If you are doing just auto, do not get a big cfm vac pump, if you can find a 2-4 cfm pump would be great. If you pull a vacume to fast you can actually freeze droplets of moisture before they boil off.

I use a 4 cfm for small residential and auto (I just crack the valves in auto till I get below 1000 microns)

Help me out. How do you read 1000 microns on a gage set?

 

[dclassical]

You cannot, for that you connect a micron gauge.

 

[Big Johnson]

if its just for your personal vehicles HF sells both and they are perfectly adequate for the home owner. If the systems arent empty though you should really have it done by a proper facility that can capture and recycle the refrigerant.

HF pump, but get better gauges.

 

[Steevo]

I have a set I'd sell. I forgot I had them until I read this thread, and I went and checked my toolbox. They're still there. I bought them new in about 198?

 

[bgott]

I'm on a Robinaire set right now. Mastercool ****. I have a Matco branded set that decided to start leaking vacuum. The Matco guy was useless for replacement parts so I got my parts from Snappy. They still leak. Another guy in the shop has the same set, they started doing the same thing. The third tech in our shop bought a Snap-on branded Mastercool gauge set, same set as the other two. They are screwy, too. I bought the Robinaires from Tooltopia, the gauges have plastic covers so I don't know how long they will last. My boss has a propensity to use our gauges and drop them.