"Did not work at all out of the box, but I could hear the air leaking. I could not make it work by following the directions (dry gaskets), so I put a light coat of oil on both rubber gaskets and tightened both connections gradually until no air could be heard -- got to be just right, not too loose, not too tight. I helped it along this time by filling the tube with oil to "prime" it. Another try after all the tinkering, and it moved just a little oil, maybe a lean quarter ounce into the tank, then it quit.
At that point wished I had not purchased this product. But you know, that darned little white clamp looked kind of tight on the clear plastic tube even in the fully released position (as it must be released to move the oil). It didn't look nearly as tight as when closed, but it was still putting a pretty good dent in the tube (both sides). So I pulled that little white clamp apart just a bit (this is not in the directions either), and viola, the oil was flowing very well, very fast, and I felt like Jed Clampit.
Low quality directions in general.
So it worked for me, it was just very finicky and needed fine tuning right away. Four stars because the directions are very poorly written and poorly illustrated, and I doubt the mfg'r did much field testing on this oil extractor."
What is your level of technical expertise? Professional
