I just bought a Gast 1022 series pump off of Craig's List. It is mounted on a 20 gal. horizontal tank. I am going to use it for a vacuum chuck. Is there any reason to keep the tank? I really don't need to give up that much floor space in my already cluttered shop.
The pump is a 10cfm 3/4 HP unit. I probably will use a lot of bleed air to keep from sucking the bottom our of my bowls. Will a tank mitigate surges in pressure, will it make it harder to manually regulate vacuum?