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Significant oil making it's way to the vaccum Chamber

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By jeangui - 10/22/2013 11:54:41 AM

Hello,

I just received  a new Vacuum Degassing System - Small Vacuum Pump. 
After toping the Oil as per instructions, I am running some trial runs. During these,  I noticed a significant amount of Oil in the vaccum chamber (see image below). 
Otherwise the pump pulls a vacuum. 

Is there a step I am missing which is leading to this issue ?

Many thanks,
Jean P
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By StanTheMan - 10/22/2013 5:14:02 PM

That's strange. My vacuum pump is almost twice as cheap as the one offered here but it has an anti-suck back feature so no matter what, no oil gets sucked back