Regis,
What happened with the caresaver?No bueno?
FE
So, now the Caresaver isn't good?
Gotta say, I have had a rash of bad appions. Leak like a sieve. I'm willing to sell three leaky appions, two still under warranty, for $300 each if any of you are interested.
That being said, my caresaver arrived with a leak, but nothing a little brazing couldn't fix. And NASS, LTD -eBay seller - agreed to discount it for me. At least I could hear the leak during testing. The appion will drive a man nuts with the incessant fricking noise and you won't hear a leak until you're fully engulfed.
Since having the caresaver and running many, many, many runs with it over the last 60 days, we've not noticed a difference in color or quality of the end product vs processing with an appion. In fact, it just seems to keep getting better.
These results lead me to entertain the notion that the claims of oil being exposed to the gas stream in the caresaver aren't accurate.
Please don't interpret this as an attack on you or your system if you use an appion, I just wanted to share my seething effing hatred for them and my personal experience with the caresaver. Lol.
Sounds like it's a hit or miss with the Appions since your rebuilt one lasted a year while your brand new one lasted only 3 months. When you say 4"x6" cold trap did you mean condenser?My first one went the longest, which was a fresh rebuild bought used on eBay early last year.
That went down sometime this spring - lasted about a year. Bought a brand new unit locally, lasted about 3 months, then went for rebuild. Bought another new one while sending last one out for rebuild that lasted a month or so. The rebuilt one came back and lasted about 60 days. That's when I bought a caresaver.
We run about the same hours as you. Pulled to only -10 or so with the appion on final recovery, and we have a big inlet side filter dryer and a 4"x6" cold trap in ice water.
I'm half tempted to send them out for warranty rebuild again, since two of the three are less than a year old, but just haven't done it yet.
Sounds like it's a hit or miss with the Appions since your rebuilt one lasted a year while your brand new one lasted only 3 months. When you say 4"x6" cold trap did you mean condenser?