Cleaning a Mity Vac

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How do you clean the inside of the Mity Vac? With the lid not coming off. It seems it was only meant for extraction. I bought a 10L Vevor to put fluid back in.
The lid of the Mity needs to be removable.
 
How do you clean the inside of the Mity Vac? With the lid not coming off. It seems it was only meant for extraction. I bought a 10L Vevor to put fluid back in.
The lid of the Mity needs to be removable.
Look up the Model # to see if it's strictly an Extractor .
 
How do you clean the inside of the Mity Vac? With the lid not coming off. It seems it was only meant for extraction. I bought a 10L Vevor to put fluid back in.
The lid of the Mity needs to be removable.
I don't know if there are different models, but my friend's Mityvac as a valve to switch from extracting to pushing out/emptying it.
 
I am anxious to see what others say here. This has always been a little bit of a sticky point for me, when I have heard others say that they use their oil extractor, also to dispense fluids.

Mine has a lot of nasty grunge in the bottom of it, and I don't see a practical way to clean it good enough, to use it to dispense, say tranny fluid, for example.
 
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Me either. The consensus is it can't be cleaned enough to dispense different fluids. I E Mercon ULV and Redline mt90
 
It's the 7201. I just don't want to contaminate Mercon ULV, LV and Mercon V
I've never used one of these things, so pardon my ignorance. 🤷‍♂️

The grunge thing is a concern. I think I would have dedicated engine oil and ATF extractor/dispensers.

But assuming a relatively clean extractor - if the previous extraction/dispense was for Mercon ULV, and now you want to extract/dispense Mercon V, wouldn't the extraction of the old Mercon V "flush out" the previous Mercon ULV?

If you just want to dispense Mercon V but the extractor has trace Mercon ULV in it, couldn't you "sacrifice" some new Mercon V as a flush?
 
I have that 7201 model and I think the top comes off. I think it is screws holding it on.

I would get a dedicated pump jug though to refill. Oil Safes are nice.
 
I'm fairly new to the Mityvac game, but I have made up a small amount of hot, soapy water with Dawn dish soap and 'extracted it' into the Mityvac. This was done mostly just to clean the inside of the hoses and seemed to do a decent job.

I've also poured brake cleaner in from the top and swished it around, but I don't think that's good for the plastics.

I'd like to use it to dispense clean oil into my diesel Onan generator which has very limited space to pour in oil from the top, so I can understand the desire to get the unit clean.
 
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