RE: Compressor oil slinging

[Dave Head <dhead@sundial.sundial.net>]

At 06:14 PM 6/20/96 EST, you wrote:
>Mike asked:
>
>>Just noticed mine doing the same. Anyone know:
>>1) Where does this oil come from?
>>2) How does one "refill it"?
>
>Hi Mike,
>
>	This is a high viscosity compressor oil that is added with the freon.
>In the good ol' days of DIY A/C maintainance you could buy lil' cans of
>compressor lube and add them to the system via a cheap hose unit into the low
>pressure side of the compressor. Now you probably have to pay big bucks to some
>overpaid, undereducated high school drop-out to do the same thing. 

Pep Boys still has the pressurized cans of oil - don't need a tech cert to
buy it. They also sell a neat single use charge dude for adding oil, and
another one for leak detection.

A friend of mine recently went and took the test/got his certification. It
cost him $25.00 to take the test, and he said the test was basically a joke.
The law is against venting systems. Nothing stops you from getting certified
and topping off your own system...

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