Vacmaster pump oil

[Ucsdryder]

Probably time to change the pump oil in my vp230. What’s everyone using?

 

[Yooper]

Pretty sure this is what was recommended by Vacmaster when I bought mine. I'll verify when I get home, though.

 

[sf jakey]

How often should it be changed?

 

[BBob]

Direct drive vac pump oil bought from my local hvac distributor.

BLACK GOLD Vacuum Pump Oil Archives - JB Industries

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[BBob]

How often should it be changed?

If the oil starts looking discolored at all, especially if it looks milky change it out. I also change it after any large processing job. Not changing oil is the biggest pump killer I’ve seen over the past 30 years with customers and vac pumps. Oil is cheap compared to a new pump.

 

[Billdoe]

What's considered a large job?

 

[Cruze26]

How often should it be changed?

Exactly! The right question I was about asking too. How frequent?

 

[doc holiday13]

my vac sealer is slightly bigger than the vp230 and i'm supposed to change the oil every 3k cycles or 25 hours.
any ISO 46 compliant compressor oil will work

If your oil is milky you're getting water in the system, which will happen if you're vac sealing warm or hot stuff. When you pull a vaccuum you actually lower the boiling point of water. So lets say you're vac seal foods are 100 degrees they will boil off at the maximum your unit will pull. so generally you should have your stuff at 90F max when you vac seal it