GaryC
14-06-2008, 12:18 PM
Hi, :confused:, pretty down right now. My wife and I have an ice cream/concessions truck with 3 state contracts to provide food,ice cream,snacks,etc. at area beaches. The freezer we bought in 1999 from All Star Carts and Vehicles in Bayshore, Long Island,NY.
A TF40,3 door freezer. When we first bought it after a nightly charge being plugged in we'll get -20 degrees up until this year when I first plugged her in for the season we got -10. Then we just had some extremely hot and humid weather and the freezer would not get below 0. We had one guy come who gave it a charge with r-12 and then saying he was looking for leaks got into the freezer box itself and bent a copper tube and cracked it causing the r-12 to drain out into my freezer full of ice cream. He then tried to charge me for the refridgerant he lost and said he would come back the next day. I said I would pay when the job was done. Well he took off leaving me with a hissing leaking freezer and my wife and I rushing to get the product out of the truck and into our house freezer. I sucked in some of the r-12 pretty close to passing out.
The next day after calling around we finally got another tech to come over. He braised the cracked line and put in r409A. We tried charging it overnight again but it would never hit 0. We called him again .He came back and drained the refrigderant,checked for leaks (none found)and then put in mp66. We have charged it again overnight and its still only down to 0.
We need to have at least -15 to be able to sell all day keeping the ice cream solid, esspecially in july and aug. I'm at the mercy of these guys and don't know what to do. Any ideas? Only thing i can remember is he stated he checked the compressor by closing one side and it pulled a hair under 10 which he said was okay. I'm lost cause I have no idea.
I'm already out 300 dollars. Should he have put a new drier/filter making the change from r-12 to 409a,and then to mp66. I'm in a bad way right now. Anything that could help would be greatlt appreciated. Thanks Gary and Anabela
A TF40,3 door freezer. When we first bought it after a nightly charge being plugged in we'll get -20 degrees up until this year when I first plugged her in for the season we got -10. Then we just had some extremely hot and humid weather and the freezer would not get below 0. We had one guy come who gave it a charge with r-12 and then saying he was looking for leaks got into the freezer box itself and bent a copper tube and cracked it causing the r-12 to drain out into my freezer full of ice cream. He then tried to charge me for the refridgerant he lost and said he would come back the next day. I said I would pay when the job was done. Well he took off leaving me with a hissing leaking freezer and my wife and I rushing to get the product out of the truck and into our house freezer. I sucked in some of the r-12 pretty close to passing out.
The next day after calling around we finally got another tech to come over. He braised the cracked line and put in r409A. We tried charging it overnight again but it would never hit 0. We called him again .He came back and drained the refrigderant,checked for leaks (none found)and then put in mp66. We have charged it again overnight and its still only down to 0.
We need to have at least -15 to be able to sell all day keeping the ice cream solid, esspecially in july and aug. I'm at the mercy of these guys and don't know what to do. Any ideas? Only thing i can remember is he stated he checked the compressor by closing one side and it pulled a hair under 10 which he said was okay. I'm lost cause I have no idea.
I'm already out 300 dollars. Should he have put a new drier/filter making the change from r-12 to 409a,and then to mp66. I'm in a bad way right now. Anything that could help would be greatlt appreciated. Thanks Gary and Anabela