[LargeFormat] horse trading & some really dumb questions...

[Brock Nanson]

Any vacuum cleaner will do for this... an old canister vac is fine also.  
Just make sure you have a way to allow some air to flow into the vacuum 
cleaner - they need some air running through them to stay cool.  And you 
don't need that much vacuum to keep paper flat!  If the vacuum speeds up 
significantly, you need more relief air.

I put a connection to the built in vac in my house into my darkroom.  They 
are started with a low voltage circuit to the wall receptacles, so a foot 
switch would work fine for me.  And having the vacuum in the garage keeps 
things quiet!!

Brock

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Charles Thorsten wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@multiboard.com>
> 
> > Anyhow, I was looking at the easel, and i got this really weird thought -
> > the hole to the attachment  for the vacumn looks exactly the same size as
> > for a ShopVac.  Seriously.  Has anyone tried hooking up a shop vac to
> their
> > vacmun easel?   I mean, a proper vacum pump & attachments is a few hundred
> > bucks, a brand new shop vac (quiet running model) is about 60 bucks.
> 
> Shop Vacs work great on vacuum easels.  I have one powering my
> homemade 30x40 easel with a standard size hose.  Be sure it makes
> a good, airtight connection and you're ready to go.  I just wish mine
> had a footswitch...
> 
> -Charlie
> 
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Brock Nanson
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