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VacMaster - Care and Cultivation
JoeGrilling:
This is an FYI for VacMaster unit owners. I bought a VacMaster VP320 in December 2020 and we love it. However, there is maintenance involved with these things. We really started using it in January 2021. I built a cart for it but needed to wait for my son and my daughter's boyfriend to be around to get it into the house. Like Bentley said, they are heavy.
Memorial Day this year my unit stopped pulling a complete vacuum. I changed the oil at the 25 hour point but did nothing with it since. The manual says "Every 60 hours, 3 months or if oil becomes discolored". I assumed since a home owner uses it so infrequently, It could go for a year without an oil change. It turns out this is not so.
The tech support folks at Ary are great. They had me change the oil and then a second time. It still didn't work. Ary tech support had me cycle the unit 6-10 times and they use Sea Foam to vigorously clean the unit. It started working while cycling my second oil change. I did the Sea Foam run for 10 cycles and then a flush with the standard oil. I then refilled with standard oil and life is good.
The bottom line is these units need to have their oil changed every three months.
GREG-B:
Seafoam, cure all for most everything. :clap:
BigDave83:
Seafoam is awesome stuff. Love their Deep Creep penetrant.
I have a VP215, I bought 2014 maybe, I think I have changed oil in it one time. It is still clean looking. I did have an issue with the bolts on the ack not being tight and the oil leaking out when I first got it. Couldn't figure where the oil was coming from on the cart.
I may have to change mine again.
What oil are you using just a regular vacuum pump oil?
I love the chamber machine would never go back to food savers, I bought one of the Pro380 I think it is, a suction machine for a great deal rarely use it but it is nice to have something that will do a 15" wide bag.
JoeGrilling:
--- Quote from: BigDave83 on June 09, 2022, 10:28:49 PM ---Seafoam is awesome stuff. Love their Deep Creep penetrant.
I have a VP215, I bought 2014 maybe, I think I have changed oil in it one time. It is still clean looking. I did have an issue with the bolts on the ack not being tight and the oil leaking out when I first got it. Couldn't figure where the oil was coming from on the cart.
I may have to change mine again.
What oil are you using just a regular vacuum pump oil?
I love the chamber machine would never go back to food savers, I bought one of the Pro380 I think it is, a suction machine for a great deal rarely use it but it is nice to have something that will do a 15" wide bag.
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If you Google VacMaster oil, the recommended oil is Lubriplate. I bought a quart for getting my machine debugged and a gallon for later.
hughver:
I have a VacMaster 350 that I bought several years ago, and it requires some periodic maintenance but is still going strong. I recently ordered the new Anova chamber vacuum sealer. I'll report back when I've had a chance to evaluate it.
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