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Mikeref, its an obselete model so i am quoting for a new copeland 7.5hp discus comp, a ZB50 scroll and a rebuilt replacement. The new comps will cope with R404A when the time comes but i suspect they will go with the cheaper for now option.
I have customers like that too! I don't mind so long as they pay for my time and understand that it might not last that long.
Paul, theres no way i'd get two splits changed in a day on the same site let alone two different ones, took me 2.5 days to swap a 5kw unit for an old 2.5kw unit the other week with a 15m pipe run :o
Jon
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monkey spanners
Paul, theres no way i'd get two splits changed in a day on the same site let alone two different ones, took me 2.5 days to swap a 5kw unit for an old 2.5kw unit the other week with a 15m pipe run :o
Jon
You're just trying to make me feel better :lol:
I was home by 3.30pm ;)
Worst installs I have are small flats or apartments, have to fit a condensate pump, drill through 2 walls at least or lift tiles and go through the ceiling etc.
I normally get them done from scratch in 6hrs by myself for these flats etc.
Doing it solo take way longer than two guys (can't push an pull a pipe from either side of a wall at the same time) so what can take 2 guys 2hrs, takes me 6hrs.
Of course all my installs are difficult ones, the retailers have installers that will do it for $500 ( whats that, about 200 pounds?) Catch is they will only do the simple back to back, ~2m pipework installs.
So they get the simple easy ones, and I get the really hard ones...
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Swapped glycol lines on to a new brewery fermenter - and will be back to swap it to the previous tank when the new fermenter goes back to the stainless fabricator for it's outer skin to be fitted... then back again to reconnect it...
Plus had the boys out working on automating a water defrost system.
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Taking it easy doing just a few hours/day untill 2011. Landed this job at the local law enforcements social club/house/shed. Anyway, the 2 door display fridge had given out, condenser fan seized and the cabinet was full with all brands of beer and spirits now gone warm, this just won't do. Anyways, finish up the job and stroll up to the station, hand them the invoice and on walking out, took a wrong turn into the ladies locker room where they were changing shift:o, oops! sorry!.. :cool:, my mistake. Must have been the warm rum and cola.. JUST KIDDING OFFICER.:D
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First job of the new year!
Got a call from a restaurant, thought they were calling to ask where their ice maker was that i'm waiting on parts for but it was for a chest freezer.
They had dropped a knife on the flex... but looked more like mouse damage to me which was confirmed once the cover was off as little mickey had chewed through a couple more cables in there too! The kitchen is very clean so i was surprised to see the damage but we got it fixed before the food was thawed out.
Got a bottle of wine as a thankyou and new years gift, hopefully this will set a precedent for the rest of the year :D
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Had to change a agitator motor on a 8000L dx milk tank, the paddle is about 6ft long and screws onto the output shaft on the agitator gearbox. It stirs the milk as it is cooled and to stop the cream from seperating.
Thought it would not take long to do as usually just mole grip the paddle and shock it free then unscrew it but couldn't get it to move.
Got inside the tank and tried turning the paddle blades having jammed up the agitator with screwdrivers in the motors cooling fan, still wouldn't turn....
Back on top of the tank with mole grips on the paddle pushing against the mounting stud for the gearbox and a chain wrench round the motor and i got a few turns till the mole grips started slipping :mad:
Finally got it undone with two mole grips on the paddle and the chain wrench and some heat, I put pleanty of grease on the new one so if i have to change it again it should be a bit easier.
I think a lot of the trouble is that it is a stainless to stainless connection and it tends to lock together.
Then on the way home i bought a trailer for my truck.
Jon :D
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do you much with muller bmt mk?
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Got to change the LP switch on a Daikin 3 pipe outdoor unit (K Series) today.
As the original one didn't have a schraeder depressor, which meant having to recover and then re-charge, I decided to disconnect the static gauge line and put the new one on there.
Saved about 3 hours :D
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do you much with muller bmt mk?
I try to avoid them, parts are difficult to get as is technical information.
I only look after two tanks for customers who have fallen out with the main agent....
Frank, i love it when these short cuts spring to mind before work is started, instead of in the van on the way home after :D
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Frank, i love it when these short cuts spring to mind before work is started, instead of in the van on the way home after :D
Ain't the the truth. Too often good ideas come too late.
Today I got chased and stung by wasps living under the tiles on a roof while repairing an evap cooler. They didn't like me up there walking on their tiles.
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Got called to a friends ducted ac system,,,one room zone was not operating,,,,,crawled through 35c ceiling climbed over the offending zone motor only to find a 2 metre snake wrapped around the cable which was pulled out of the connector.Took a moment to check my underwear,came out of ceiling,,,,got mapp gas torch and returned,,,,,fired it up and joe blake got the message and quickly moved away,,,reconnect the cable and got out of there in 2 seconds.
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Nice one.
I think the UK stories are always lacking in fauna like snakes, spiders, lizards etc.
When an inverter or circuit board shorts out here, it's nearly always either our crappy power supply causing surges, or a skink lizard fried itself.
When a wall split indoor unit dies for no reason, it's nearly always our crappy power supply causing brownouts or surges, or a mouse thats got in and chewed stuff up and p1ssed on everything.
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So with no problems caused by fauna, crappy power supply or bad installers, there would be not much work in domestic a/c repair at all
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Got called to a friends ducted ac system,,,one room zone was not operating,,,,,crawled through 35c ceiling climbed over the offending zone motor only to find a 2 metre snake wrapped around the cable which was pulled out of the connector.Took a moment to check my underwear,came out of ceiling,,,,got mapp gas torch and returned,,,,,fired it up and joe blake got the message and quickly moved away,,,reconnect the cable and got out of there in 2 seconds.
Fairplay ,I know for a fact i'd have got the apprentice not a mapp torch,;)
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funny that ms same down here today i fitted a bottle cooler fan and of course cleaned a condensor on a horrible polar cooler dove to exeter and fitted a new comp on a gah on a sprinter of then to street and sorted out a porka coldroom with a frozen coil then two car acs on the way home and tomoz swimming pool heatpumps i had better get the speedos out
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Day before yesterday had to fly to Sydney (just for the night mind you) on two hours notice to assess a Super Yachts cool/freezer room issues and be ready to carry out repairs when it docks in Auckland next week. Had brekky the next day in the crew galley. The boat has crew of sixteen, swear to god 13 of them were young fine lookin females. Mmmmm...which one's going to get the attention when they arrive.....
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Goober,,,,you lucky b*stard
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Ha ha yeah, lucky sob.
I played human CPR valve.
I repair a bunch of custom made (by who!) freezers for bagged ice you see and shops and delis.
The ones I look after of course don't like it when you first turn them on, normally trip out on HP or overload. So if one is ever defrosted or delivered warm and empty on a hot day like 37C ambient today, I've got to shut the suction valve to just a crack to limit the suction pressure unit the cabinet cools down a bit.
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paul h,
I am surprised they have hp controls.Usually a capiliary and stat is it.
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The fan motors on these things fail fairly regularly. A HP control saves them a compressor.
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working in local zoo got Fujitsu inverters in animal enclosures stripped down and cleaned indoor in boa constricters room. Keeper stood behind me with a broom to keep the snakes back set a new world record for complete strip down and rebuild.:rolleyes: When i was finishing snakes were getting fed up i turned around and my apprentice had legged it:eek:
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Removed a 7.5kw fan motor from an Ingersoll Rand compressor with my son (he`s great fun to work with by the way). We had to erect a gantry as the motor was four foot up and three feet inside the cabinet on a bracket. What a sodding job, half the cabinet in bits. Why don`t the design engineers make stuff so it can actually be worked on. Back tomorrow to fit the new bearings and do it all again in reverse. Aaaaaargh!!
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alan have you found your apprentice yet. makes my day sound boreing
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Was walking around with some penguins yesterday, when fixing their food freezer, which was kinda cool.
Today was on an IPAF mobile boom and scissor lift training course.
Finally proved to myself that I don't do heights; stopped the mobile boom halfway through and just took the scissor lift.
The idea of being 65 - 70 feet up in the air whilst driving backwards does not hit the feel good button for me.
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Was walking around with some penguins yesterday, when fixing their food freezer, which was kinda cool.
Today was on an IPAF mobile boom and scissor lift training course.
Finally proved to myself that I don't do heights; stopped the mobile boom halfway through and just took the scissor lift.
The idea of being 65 - 70 feet up in the air whilst driving backwards does not hit the feel good button for me.
I think the only reason i passed my magic carpet test was because the instructor was too busy chatting to the other trainees and didn't see me crash it into the fence :confused:
Jon :D
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Alan07,
I hope you pay your apprentice 'Danger money'
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Weather is warming up now to 30c+ so heaps of ac calls...retired Dutchman calls,,,and asks for help to get ac to work,,,,feel sorry for him and go straight there,,,another Gecko suicided on the pc board,,,19 year old Panasonic is condemed to scrap.
Love those Geckos.He was shocked to only get 19 years out of his ac.are dutch like that?
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lawrence1
Weather is warming up now to 30c+ so heaps of ac calls...retired Dutchman calls,,,and asks for help to get ac to work,,,,feel sorry for him and go straight there,,,another Gecko suicided on the pc board,,,19 year old Panasonic is condemed to scrap.
Love those Geckos.He was shocked to only get 19 years out of his ac.are dutch like that?
The Dutch are renound for it, in NZ
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Today i worked on the biggest bucket of bolts to date.
A set of 8 Matsu air cooled chillers located on the roof of one of Sydney's tallest buildings. (views of the harbor and out to the heads, Magnificent)
These matsu chillers are only 2.5 years old and out of the 8 only 2 are running :rolleyes:
Problems are many. leaking evaps, leaking conensers, incorrectly piped condensers and faulty compressors (some locked up some burnt out)
We where asked to make recommendations to solve the issues. needless to say we recommended to replace to chillers.
Replace an 800kw chiller plant that is 2.5years old........and they agreed.:eek:. Like i said biggest bucket of bolts i have ever worked on.
New Power pax chiller are going in...:p
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Gutted out 3 coldrooms that were flooded last week in Brisbane ,,,everything to be replaced,,,the smell was something i will remember for a long time.This whole shopping centre i was at today was under 3 metres of water and it's so depressing to see first hand the damage.
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Called back to a site to change a rusted through suction valve on a 4hp prestcold recip on one system and replace a faulty L'unite TAG4561Z on the other one.
Apart from my rcd plug on the extension lead having died everything went ok, which made a nice change from the usual 'get to site, look at system, remmeber thingy i was supposed to get from stores last night....' :o
I've had lots of compressors fail lately, more than usual, just wonder if any of you guys are seeing an increase in failures too?
Jon :)
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monkey spanners
Called back to a site to change a rusted through suction valve on a 4hp prestcold recip on one system and replace a faulty L'unite TAG4561Z on the other one.
Apart from my rcd plug on the extension lead having died everything went ok, which made a nice change from the usual 'get to site, look at system, remmeber thingy i was supposed to get from stores last night....' :o
I've had lots of compressors fail lately, more than usual, just wonder if any of you guys are seeing an increase in failures too?
Jon :)
Funny you should say that about compressors I have replaced 3 already this year.
All heat pump stuff (ground source)
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Quality
Funny you should say that about compressors I have replaced 3 already this year.
All heat pump stuff (ground source)
And long may it continue so long as they are out of warranty :D
Jon :)
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Had a day of failed condensate pumps today.
Went to a site on Monday which had a sump pump with a sticky float switch so a kind of hot motor too. Adjusted the float stops and left it all working.
Guess what, it stopped again today. Looking at the float switch I noticed that the spindle wasn't quite vertical. The micro-switch which is operated by the float switch is fixed to a small piece of sheet plastic which simply slots into a gap in the pump base. Age is allowing it to sag and jam on the float spindle. New pump to fit on Monday; heh-ho.
The other one was an AC unit not working, got to site, flashing light but no action. Could see that the signal wire was passed through the high level switch of the pump so went to the pump to check it.
First time that I've found hot water in an AC condensate pump tray.
Motor was not quite melting but, geeez, it was cooking the water well. Had a spare pump for that one so did a swap and left one happy customer.
In between these two of us were servicing some boilers in a sports centre. One boiler room knocked us back when we walked in, too damned hot and the air thick with carbon monoxide.
Checking around we found the air intake grille to the fanned flue was smashed and assorted rubbish laying in the ductwork. A closer look at the boiler flues explained why the bad air. One had a plastic Coke bottle in it while the worst one actually had a well cooked football sitting on top of the flue outlet.
The fun we have. :)
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Those boilers sound dangerous Brian!!!
Spent the day installing stuff on a council site, which translates to having a meeting with the surveyor, the electrician, the manager, and no actual work, which would be good if it wasn't on a fixed price :rolleyes:
Jon :D
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Can't even afford to walk off for a coffee can you? :D
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*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: "how old is the a/c?"
Them: "3-4 years"
Me: "well it's under warranty, call a service agent" - This happened 4 times in a single hour yesterday
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: I can be there next week
Them: Can't come today?
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: I can be there next week
Them: Can't come today?
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: I can be there next week
Them: Can't come today?
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: I can be there next week
Them: Can't come today?
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: I can be there next week
Them: Can't come today?
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: I can be there TOMORROW
Them: Can't come today?
:(
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: I'll book you in for x day first thing/mid morning/noon/early afternoon/between 1-3 etc etc
Them: What exact time?
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: I'll book you in for x day first thing/mid morning/noon/early afternoon/between 1-3 etc etc
Them: What exact time?
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: I'll book you in for x day first thing/mid morning/noon/early afternoon/between 1-3 etc etc
Them: What exact time?
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Me: I'll book you in for x day first thing/mid morning/noon/early afternoon/between 1-3 etc etc
Them: What exact time?
*ring ring*
Blah blah blah
Them: I made a booking a few days ago, and you're coming tomorrow, can I change the time?
Me: Well no, as everyone else is booked in and expects me at an exact time. :confused:
Where's the smilie for gunshot to the head?
edit: Besidesg etting SOME work done, I have these phone calls 30x a day each
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LOL, Don't ya just luv it! At least the phone works. Had a/c job for you today but customer didn't want to fly you over from West Australia PERTH? An old split had kept the compressor running o/night when office staff turned it off, block of ice and noisy fan when turned on today. Barrel fan bushes shot ages ago, been running on luck for years and now compressor relay fused. Wrote it off but have to make it work untill its replaced...Good on ya...
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Saved a Williams blast chiller today, all electronic boards burned out, cost of new ones is the same as a small car so had to replace it with a Dixell XB570, cute controller, striped all the wires and rewired to the new controller.
As I was about to finish and start the first cycle, a blast of hot steam covers me and the blast chiller.
Apparently, just behind me was a big steam cooker and every time they opened the door, the cloud of hot steam covered all the area. Realized thats was the reason for the burned electronics, didn't leave any warranty for the new controller until they solve the steam problem.
I was amazed by the amount of wires Williams use on such a simple machine, no wonder why they charge so much to replace parts, well.... I wasn't cheap either;)