Vacuum chuck/pump questions

[Jeffrey J Smith]

Mine sits in a cabinet right next to the lathe - same rolling cabinet with drawers that my grinder sits on. The front is sealed, the back is open (with a little filter material over it). Has never gotten warm enough to trip the thermister - yet. As far as any noise - the cabinet muffles most and a sintered metal filter on the inlet seems to soften what's left.

[Jim Silva]

Hi Scott,
I've just put together a vacuum system (although I'm using a cheap HF pump) and can pull 25+ with it. I wanted to enclose mine to keep choking it with dust and to minimize the slight oil mist that can come from the pump I'm using. I figured that putting it into a cabinet would be a heat issue so I built a little wood frame around it and covered the sides and top of the frame with that blue fiberglass furnace filter you can buy at Lowes/Depot. Comes in a 30x20 sheet and two surrounded the pump nicely.

It's designed to filter air so heat buildup shouldn't be an issue and it also serves as a slight barried to the oil mist issue.

Don't know if that helps or not but good luck and happy vacuuming lol.

Jim

[Harry Robinette]

Scott
I put my pump in a 3 sided top and bottom cart, I have a 5" fan behind the pump blowing across and out the open 4th side. It still get's really warm.
Let us now if you find some way to quit this thing.