Small Reach In Repair – Adding Schrader Valves
Well I just installed Service Pack 1 for Vista and it fixed a few issues with Windows Movie Maker when using some new file formats with the El Cheapo Poloroid Digital Camera I am now using to replace the broken Kodak. Some of the video I was able to speed up to 4 times the normal speed in a new effort to keep the total length under 10 minutes rather than cutting out more of the scenes. In this video I did a typical diagnosis and repair on a small one door reach in cooler. The cooler was a sealed system with no schrader valves to check pressure. Here I use my crimp tool and weld in two pressure ports. All while the compressor is still operating. Once I did that I was able to test and find that it had a restriction in the filter drier.
Man, that’s fast work with the pinch off tool. Oh, just now noticed the comments that the video was sped up. I just thought you had realllly fast hands. Thanks for posting.
man thats good work. keep up the good work.
wow 5 OZ that’s like hardly any at all
LOL! Yeah the video was like closer to 20 minutes before editing the clips and speeding up certain clips.
Thanks man.
Yup. The hoses on my manifold set hold nearly that! These things are real fun to dial the charge in. You have to get it down to normal temp before confirming the pressures and temps.
Thanks for yet another informative video. I am trying to get into the ac/r repair work and I have learned alot from your and Dr.Z’s videos. keep them coming. have had some experience with ac units but refs. and freezers I am not too farmiliar with.
Can you recommend any good training aids that would help one to learn. books/videos.
Good job. I like using the speed up effect in Windows Movie Maker, too. For some reason, the XP version has some issues when using the speed up version.
Show off!!!!! Just say No to the Turbo Torch
LOL! I do use a MAPP torch every now and then. But that’s just to thaw some ice off of a coil or do some soft soldering on water lines! :-]
Yeah it was a bit buggy at first with the videos form the new El Cheapo Digital Camera. Then last night I installed the Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista and it’s working great now.
Yeah, YOUTUBE! LOL! Actually, all of my learning has been from on the job or from forums, reading internet articles, etc. As far as these small units go, many HVAC techs who are fine with doing residential and some commercial A/C units HATE the “low temp” side of HVAC. My first job was a crash course in all sorts of stuff. Reach ins, ice machines, oil furnaces too. I had to plug along until I figured it out!
I figure that my training will be O J T as well. I repaired a small frig. for a fellow but it had nothing to do with the refrigerant side. Brand new mini frige. Manufacture’s employee did not assemble the the air passage from the freezer to the frige correctly. Passage is styrofoam and assembler just smashed it together collapsing the passage and put the screws in.
Does no one take pride in their work any more?
Big box store, several skids of them all marked way down. I wonder why?
Another great video HackFree! How did you get to work in such a quiet part of the building? lol, normally there’s frying pans falling down and people stepping on us.
No doubt! This was in that little room that the servers use to store butter, whip cream, the soda fountain, etc. It’s only one way in, one way out and I was at the end of the room. And I was there before they get busy. The have a small lunch business but get busy during dinner. They don’t like to pay O.T. so I am rarely there after 5PM :-]
Hey, awesome vids, just found you on here and have watched about 8 of your videos. I have been in HVAC since 1983 in one fashion or the other. Currently I am maintenance supervisor of 432 apartments. Less stress than running service calls and being pushed from one call to the next. Sometimes to the companies quantity outweighs quality. One thing that bogged me down and caused me headaches all the time were pressure switches on walk in coolers and freezers. Keep it up!!
Sounds like a nice gig you got there. Sometimes I wonder why more apartment places don’t just hire a well rounded guy who can fix the applianced too and pay him a descent salary. You sound like you have a few years on me. It must be nice having a more laid back job at this point in your career.
Its a pretty good gig, but still have plenty of stress to go around. I have 4 maintenance techs and me for 432 apts. I have the most experience out of all, but we all learn from each other, you never stop learning in our field as you well know. I like your style and your sense of humor. I wish I had found a good honest company at the very beginning, such as commercial refrigeration or even industrial HVAC, but oh well, I`ve done pretty good, but could pick a better place than Indiana to live.LOL
I`m originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee and came up here for a woman..been here over 3 years, so looks like I`ll be here for a bit. Saw your comments about those idiots with the grammar problems, you had me rolling, and you are right too, about these younger generation punks getting their language from the rap and hip hop crap. Awesome videos you have, keep it up, the Hoshizaki suicide ladders videos reminded me of a few service calls I went on for Panera Bread to work on the freezer. Later.
How & why did you pinch off suctionc line and liquid line? If these line are pinch off then how can you get a pressure reading. I am assuming “pinch off a pipe” is the same as “seal a pipe”.
didnt see any recovery mr vent to the ozone
dude love the vid… wish u had more light in there… i totally get the fundamentals of what u did there i wish you would make a vid of how u put those schraders on the tubing like that especially while it was running
hey bro, nice vids, i love your videos where you actually fix shit. keep those coming, and it’s great how you actually bother to subtittle some of the symthoms and the fix. i must say bro, keep em coming, very educative. we need more techs in the trade like you that don’t mind sharing the wealth of knowledge.