Might start a thread
Maybe since air decompressing is like refrigeration as it cools, it then is an appliance
Other stuff that had issues with repair it yourself:
I had my now 35-year-old Food Saver Vacuum Seal Machine accidentally sucked up smoke fish juices into the machine vacuum pump when sealing a bag of smoked fish I made. Important to keep the bag below the machine height. Be by the edge of a counter top to do this. Live and learn.
I ended up taking the machine apart and needed a reed valve that was heavily gummed up with brown sugar and salt and fishy solution.
I call the company and got info on an authorized repair center to get parts. They said bring it in an let’s see. I really should have known the guy was just baiting me so he could do the repair. So, after making a long trek to the store and finding out the guy had just that in mind, he would not sell the part. He would only repair it. For the cost of buying a new one, why bother letting him fix it.
Quite rattled, I did have some fun by going to Fisherman's Wharf anyway.
Later at home I decided to soak the parts of the vacuum pump in warm soapy water. It took as best I recall about two weeks. Then it came clean and I reassembled it all an it worked as new.
Of recent I had used it to seal up and freeze some great dry rub brine Alder Wood Smoked Sable Fish I buy from fisher people that show up on Saturdays down town to sell fish fresh caught here in Mendocino County CA.
I expect my labor was worth something as this stuff can be like 50 dollars a pound. The fish with just head removed is not anywhere near that costly. The side wood box on the huge smoker grill, was being marked down at Orchard Supply Hardware Store (now out of business) for 99 bucks.
Now I have replaced the main grill ash pan from the manufacture’s web page and shipped to me, so it keeps on going!
