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I'm all the time buying new tools, often replacements for ones I forgot I had or can't find, but I dont usually take pictures of them. Did today though.
First up:
Just the pump, the gauges are rentals. It's the 3 CFM Two Stage Vacuum Pump from Harbor Freight. (Ignore the oil stain, it's from the rental pump)
We purchased a R134a manifold set but rented a pump last time we did this, maybe 15 years ago. Only vacuum pump now available for rent locally was the 1.8 CFM unit from O'Reilly Auto Parts. Discovered our manifold hoses had dry rotted, so went back and rented those. With the leaks fixed the rental pump would only pull about 14-16" of vacuum on the system and seemed like it took 10-15 minutes to get there. The system held that vacuum steady all night. Decided a stronger vacuum pump was needed so picked this bad boy up this morning. Reopened the system to check that the orifice tube was installed correct (still not sure) so all vacuum was lost. Reconnected the manifold, switched on the pump, and almost instantly it was asbove 20 inches of vacuum, and only a minute or so more it was at 29-30 inches. Wow that worked well!
As it turns out it was a very good purchase. My compressor is apparently bad, so I get to do it asll over again in a few weeks. By then we'll also have a new manifold, or new hoses of the one we have. Oh if you are doing this and have one nearby, check Ollie's for R134a, the sometimes have the basic 12oz cans for <$5 a can. Unfortunately they were out but Wallyworld has it for about $10 a can. They don't have the fancy cool boost stuff (tthat I kind of wanted) but it's a lot cheaper than the $30-40 a piece for those cans, expecially if you don;t know the condition of the system.
Other "tool" I purchased wasn't a truck tool, but hopefully something that will be put to use with TRS later this year. I suppose it would be a "camping tool".
Coleman Carlsbad 8-person "Dark Room" tent. While I was in Ollie's this morning checking for the R134a, I decided to have a look around and spotted a bit of camping gear stacked in one area. Not unusual to find camping gear there, but the store I normally visit near work mostly has sleeping bags and small 3 person dome tents. This store had a few of these and some 10 man domes. These were marked at $80, as you can see in the link (click picture) this tent normalls sells around $200 at wallyworld and at least 150 for most places I saw online.
If the claims are to be believed this tent will solve or at least help with a few problem I have tent camping. First it's a 15x12x6 10 man tent that I'll mostly use solo, I hate the lack of space in the normal 3 man dome tents. Second, the "dark room technology" is supposed to help decrease light transmission (it seem to) and lower temperature as a by product (we'll see). I hate the ammount of light that most tents allow through and heat is my number one reason for avoiding tent camping. Maybe this with a fan will be livable. Finally, a larger tent is usually dificult to pitch solo, atleast the larger ones we've had in the past. I set-up, checked it out, took down, folded, read the instructions (sewed in the bag), then bagged it in about an hour, in that order. Was doing at my parents house in case I did need help, but I did all of it alone except for my niece pestering me the whole time. Without the little annoyance and having assembled it once, I think I can do it quicker next time.