Jon, good thing you said "first person". Could have got expensive
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Jon, good thing you said "first person". Could have got expensive
You've never got a decent vacuum cleaner when you need one....
went to a site decant willaims case replaced compressor / drier / replaced condenser fan motor cleaned condenser vac system weigh gas in .. replaced some drain lines in 2 coldrooms and replaced starter tubes and 3 ballast then got the feck out of and home
old timer
Had to go to Bath College to do the F-gas thingy. 3 days and I hate that section of M4 between Swindon and Bath it just seems to go on forever
Anyway on my way this morning about 7.00 went round to Newbury Tesco to fill up and some guy in a metallic blue Merc van in front of me went round the roundabout like a madman..White sign writing said HarT & Co refrigeration
Some bloody monkey or his mate no doubt..:D
condemned a screw compressor on a carrier water chiller electrical burn out got other section up and running as it was pretty critiical price for a re build 6450 quid lift an shift 1400 quid price for a new one 18445 quid lift an shift 750 knowing the customer as i do as i am a direct employee they gonna talk about it for 3months sh*t will hit the fan in 6months they will buy the new one and as the kit only just under 3yrs old they will want to find someone to blame for the failure am glad i wasnt working for them then :) lol
Went an hour out of town today, in the middle of nowhere, to install a buffer tank in a crowded boiler room and forgot the only tube cutter that would fit in the tiny space. No saw of any kind, high humidity and an as**ole client so I went back to the shop, and low and behold, the bar fridge had one more ice cold Stiegl beer. The day is not all lost.
easy jobs
U4 on daikin
ne outdoor pcb easy donr
APAC S23 TRIP ON HP indoor fan going on oveload trip after 30mints run new indoor fan motor unit work like new
samsong split unit checked compressor grounded to be replaced
that how my service report looked like for today
Refitted end cover to an Atlas Copco drum dryer after an insurance inspection. The cover weighed half a ton secured with forty eight 30mm nuts and bolts. Both 1" drive impact wrenches the governor sent down were knackered so we had to use a four foot torque wrench to tighten them, round and round and round. Another two dryers to do next week. Why the boss doesn`t get a cheapo one from Machine Mart instead of trying to fix ones he fished out of a skip I don`t know. But hey, that`s why he`s got the big house and a yacht and villa in Spain and I haven`t
Did the first breakdown today. Not the wall rattler I expected that would drop dead as soon as it got hot, but the water cooler. Replaced drier and chopped off a little bit of captube, regassed and there it cools again. Looked into the supply tank and decided the hosepipe would be good, all brown sediment inside. On the list for tomorrow is to get more 280g cans of R134A, some pencil driers and valves. First time I touched a unit for 3 months at work, other than cleaning filters ( been a cool winter here, not used to 12C lows) and turning them off.
Nice one Sean
welcome to the minefield of service work...good for you mate
Just one question ... whats with these mini cans of 280grams of R134a ?
I am a bit of a wimp when it comes to 60kg bottles these days but mids & dumpys ok
R's chillerman
Cheap and quick, as I do not do a lot of work with R134A, and a disposacan is a little expensive to have lying around on the off chance I will have to do a fridge or car AC. Sad thing is the dinky can works out to nearly double the price, just I can buy it over the long term. Plus it comes with nice pictograms on it and Engrish saying Ice Loong, dunno what the rest says.
I do airconditioning as part of work, it is just another piece of machinery, same issues, same problems with spares, just does not get used to make money, only to keep product cool, and keep staff from melting. The other stuff I work with is production plant, that mostly does not use airconditioning, though it all uses air.
Saw a lifetime supply of R22 at Metraclarke last week, 800kg refillables - just think about it, a lifetime supply in just 2 of them, though I will need a bigger trailer to move them around. May be a little difficult to carry up a ladder, and it has fittings that you can lose a 1/4'" hose set in.
Sad thing the fridge in my office uses R12, I will miss it when it croaks. Most likely failure will be a leak on the steel and aluminium evaporator, and I doubt you can get spares for a 40 year old Indesit now, or they will be more then the unit is worth.
Did a 230mile round trip to find the milk tank evaporator i had welded up last week is leaking again.....
Guys spent £1800 and it lasted a week, and i expect its going to cost the same again....
Some days i don't enjoy the job :confused:
looked at the refrigeration forum and drank beer.......oh and built oak stair railings for my house which has been without for 5 years
got over my hangover went to fit a flat screen tele at a friends to the wall lucky i checked it fitted bracket before trying to fit it lol:) was wrong size and am now on here and facebook annoying everyone still dont know how to get some fractions though :D lmao
si get a grinder on ur mates tv cut it down the middle and then u can have half each,his half will now fit the bracket and you will have gained a fraction!!!!haha
Re addressed 150 citi multi indoor's and programmed a couple of G50's, i was fit to cut my wrists by lunch time,usual sh*te, drawings didn't match install .:(
And I missed the Irish egg chasers giving it to the convicts(just kidding Aussies):)
Cheers
Stu
which room was the tv going in??
if you do intend to make your own porn you`ll have to grow a moustache, aquire a dodgy German accent and become a plumber as we all know any decent bluey starts with a plumber calling on a bored housewife, who`s dressed nothing but suzzys and lacey bra, to fix a water leak.
Oh, of course you`ll need some weird background music going at varous speeds.
It goes without saying that I`ve never seen any such films I`m only going by what I`ve heard...allegedly
Replaced the evaporator in a Williams fridge. Took off the line tap valve on the suction pipe and pondered - do I just blob over the hole or cut and swage it? Lets do it proper like - cut and swage it son.
Cut it then realised the cap tube runs up the suction pipe. Obvious really!
Cheers,
Andy.
Picked up my sparkling new motor for my new FM company
Dont laugh :rolleyes:
A ruddy 'postman pat van' triple Huh !! :eek::o
Hi Mike,
As soon as I cut it I saw the cap tube. You know the feeling that comes over you when you realise you've made a gross miscalculation and wonder how best to slavage the situation. Well that was me.
Top of the fridge was tighter than a crabs ass so I didn't fancy pulling the whole tube out. Ended up slicing some 5/8" pipe and crimping it round and brazing it all up.
Wont be doing that again!
Cheers,
Andy.
The sinking feeling that follows such a discovery, or something that changes the mood you were in real quick. Bit like going to a job and 1/2 way there, think maybe i forgot to include the refrigerant needed. Pull over and check.. nope, the bottle is not there! Any points for having every other refrigerant on board??
Hi taters-bet u wished ud blobbed it now! Who puts line taps on the suction line anyway-1/2 suction line??? This is why engineers need a bit of common sense! Its all to easy for joe soap to buy a set of gauges and a bag of line taps and a disposable can of gas and hey presto he's charging £20 an hr for a botch job!!!
Really quiet at work for me, got bored....so sent off as many emails to my Australian colleagues with the signature....
Regards
St....... Bo......
Contracts Manager, Irishman and proud supporter of the Wallaby culling Irish rugby team.
Loving it.......
Spent half the day at hospital, after getting covered in Rockwool and having an allergic reaction :o 4 hours and a big needle up the jacksy :eek: later - home for dinner
R's chillerman
Goober
What county are you from?
al
Goober will be at work now. 10am in New Zealand, 8am here.
Hey this is work!!
Donegal........
So off i go to do the banking this afternoon, cheques deposit, credit card payments and cash out when, bugger me... i happened to get this same trainee teller as i did last time i was there :rolleyes:. I've nothing against persons learning the job but last time, this young lad held me up for some 20 mins and i had to say to him... Ah, you have to go into my account first as it is a cash cheque i'm handing you..Firstly, you have to assign $ to that card and $ to this card and hand me the $ left over. 5 mins later, he was still fiddling and had NO idea what to do :(. This time it took 15 mins as one of the girls helped him out, THANKYOU!!
I ripped out a WWRAC that must have been 40 years old. Bloody heavy, over 100kg and it's only a 3kW system?
Lots of nice old screws to remove somehow. :(
Now I'm covered in itchy bumps like I've had a 100 mosquito bites. Every time I went near that old powdered up insulation it had, I'm now all irritated and itchy.
If I scratch irritated parts, and then touch somewhere else, all that area becomes itchy and full of bumps!
:(
No not there! I just scratched behind my ear, that's all!
So now both upper arms, one leg and behind my ear are as itchy and irritated as hell!
Also, I'm not a carpenter, so my framing of a WWRAC isn't so good. And 1.6mm nails, even though it seems to be a good idea for fixing the frame as they are small and don't stick out, are too pissweak to hammer into hardwood. Bad bad bad idea.
I don't install WWRACs normally, as I'm not a chippy, builder or glazier, but for friends, family or regular customers I will reluctantly do it if I can't sub it off to someone else. This time I couldn't, trying to offload for months unsuccessfully, so I had to do it today myself.