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Re: AC evacuation
Posted to HVAC Forum on 7/19/2004

It should not remove any significant amount of oil. But, refrigerent is soluble in oil and evacuation will "boil" the refrigerent out of the oil. This might slightly reduce the measured volume of the oil but not significantly.

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