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maffie
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Thank you really much for your reply and help, it is very usefull!!The oil came from your motor as mentioned, it makes it's way through your pipes and almost everywhere air can go, it's carried by the air, the gold thing is a safety feature, if your compressor fails to cut out when it should this will automatically open to release pressure to avoid your compressor being damaged by pressure overload, this part needs to be cleaned as well, you should be able to remove the pipe leading into it and clean the inside of the pipe and you can clean the inside of the from behind with your brake cleaner just with a cotton bud (wattenstaafje) you don't need to remove this part.
Looking at the second photo in this post, that rubber gasket has been removed before, it looks to me like it has replaced wrong and the edge of it facing us has been folded over on itself when it was put back, you can actually see old oil residue on the metal next to it, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the cause of your "under-pressure" to from the start, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if this was also why the previous owner sold it on.
With Mel's manual and all the photo's you have taken you should be able to take off as much you can to clean everything really precise, but do it in stages so that you don't confuse yourself and you know where everything came from, even continue to make photos of each part before you take them off.
P.S. if you contact the guy who told you what was wrong, he may be able to help you by advising you how to place an "in-Line" oil filter directly after the motor to help you avoid this kind of thing in the future, since you're pulling everything apart now anyway, now would be a good time to do that and such a filter is only a matter of a few €'s and well worth it, bigger more expensive compressors normally have these already.