Nomad II - Don't neglect basic maintenance!

Just did the basic maintenance per the manual. She was purring like a kitten before I did it, but still got this amount of junk out of it.

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Did my first one Saturday and it did not look like that at all, it was just wet. I am pretty sure you have more time on yours as I just hit the 20 fill mark but I cannot think of any mechanical device that would be happy with that floating around in it!

On a side note after doing the first purge my compressor had issues doing the next fill. It would shut off as soon as it started to make pressure, running for about 3 to 5 seconds. I tried several times to power it down and restart it with the same results. On a whim I decided to hold my finger over the oil add hole for a second when strating it up and it worked, and has been working just fine since. Not sure what happened to make it act this way and we will see if it happens again next time. Anyone else have similar issue?
 
I saw from your earlier post you are using Superlube in your compressor. I did a little poking around on thier the website and found this:

What is Super Lube®?

Super Lube® is a patented, multi-purpose synthetic lubricant, containing Syncolon® (PTFE) particles held in suspension. Super Lube® lasts longer and outperforms conventional petroleum-based greases and oils. 

So this is not pure silicone oil as it has teflon in it. I wonder if that is what is making it black, burnt teflon.
 
I probably used a little more oil than was needed, as it was difficult to measure "drops" being the lube hole puffs air during operation.

So I ended up just putting the tip of the nozzle into the hole and giving a light short squeeze on the bottle at the 30-second intervals.

When I did this, I could hear the compressor load up as the lube worked it's way in. I figured that I may have squeezed a bit too much in so I did it less each time after that to the point when there would just be a slight brief load instead of a heavier longer load.

I then let it run for 5 min to make sure everything was purged. Like I said, it's purring like a kitten.

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