But if not, I can’t just throw it away… So I’m trying to think of ways to use the beast
Bet it would work great for pulling vac on the bags I use to store my winter clothes. Maybe I’m missing some type of food preservation via deep vacuum?
You could always get into resin casting/art and suck those down.
You can dehydrate flowers with silica in a vac oven, make some pretty beautiful art with those. That’s what I’m likely gonna be using mine for; I got a crafty-ass wife.
I use one of my old vac pumps when changing out the oil in my vehicles. Keeps the mess down because I don’t have to fill the filter with oil, the pump wets it for me.
You could use it to vac down used propane tanks so you could use them to draw water from a remote source and make a drip irrigation holding tank for hard to access tree transplants.
If I was using propane tanks for water, I would put a anti-corrosion anode rod in the tank to slow the rusting. I would think you could get several seasons out of a tank if you vac it down after use.
I saw a guy make an air compressor from a small HVAC pump. He basically attached a hose to the handle exhaust and plumbed it into a tank with a pressure switch. Idk how much psi it pumped but he did tires with it. Your pump is a beast!
A lot of offroad guys turn their ac compressor in their engine bay into an on board air compressor to fill up tires and some use their roll cage as an air tank for air storage.