That's why its hard to answer your question. I have a couple of lab
vacuum pumps that pull a much better vacuum than a refrigerator type
compressor used as a vacuum pump. But yours might be suitable for
what you want to do.

Ignoramus13653 wrote:

Yes, I am not really looking to get into the "refrigerant recovery"
business. I was thinking about ripping out a vacuum pump from that
unit and using it as a vacuum pump for general purposes.

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