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Old 12-02-2016, 11:40 PM
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Originally Posted by FLexpat View Post
With most vacuum pumps - even fairly high vacuum ones, you can't get the pressure quite low enough to boil the water out. At 80F the boiling point for water is 29.92 in of mercury (or 0.49psia) - it takes a REAL good (and expensive) vac pump to get there. However, with vacuum you may be able to increase the evaporation rate of the water from the area and move a bunch of air through it to improve drying.
Realistically, if you have water, it may be larger than you hope.
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