Sometimes, these horrible jobs just hang around like a bad smell. What's with the 1.6mm nails? need tweezers to pick them up :eek:. 1.6 cm. :D
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Sometimes, these horrible jobs just hang around like a bad smell. What's with the 1.6mm nails? need tweezers to pick them up :eek:. 1.6 cm. :D
1.6mm Diameter! 38mm long. The went through the framing wood border fine, just not the old jarrah hardwood I was trying to attach the framing to.
Used them so I could nail in the surrounding trim to the wood frame and the nails not stick out in a visual sense. I thought that would be a better way of doing it than screw heads on the face of the trim like the old a/c had.
[QUOTE=paul_h;242220]1.6mm Diameter! 38mm long. The went through the framing wood border fine, just not the old jarrah hardwood I was trying to attach the framing to.
Used them so I could nail in the surrounding trim to the wood frame and the nails not stick out in a visual sense. I thought that would be a better way of doing it than screw heads on the face of the trim like the old a/c had.[/QUOTE Oh, diameter ;) thats better but they still bent, don't yar hate that! Makes you wonder what the builders of yesteryear thought when they had planks of timber brought in by horse or bullock team to a building site, and the leading hand saw it was all Australian Gum or hardwood :rolleyes:... We need bigger nails and hammers for this..
Bigger hammer :)
I know, and I thought I would be good at this stuff now, since I've been recycling all the pallets and crates I've been sent this year (condenser coils, compressors, complete units) into benches and trays for my chilli plants.
I've been a man on a mission with saws and nails recently.
Oh well, live and learn. I'll have a better idea next time I expect.
So you found out just how difficult it is to get those Chinese nails out of the boards. A shame of how they use lovely hardwood to make a throwaway frame, though I have gotten some lovely boxes with parts, you have to break the plywood to open them, the nails grip the wood so well.
Yeah, that they do.
Don't know if they are a good hardwood, all I know is I don't have room to store them, or a bin big enough to throw them out.
So I just recycled them for something useful, including using the old nails.
But you are right, those nails and the angles they use makes it very difficult to pull them out sometimes! Those old nails grip really strong, and I don't even have a claw hammer or crowbar.
Paid the price when recycling a compressor box into a seedling tray. The nails were much harder than the wood, broke heaps of wood trying to remove them. It becomes a bit of a puzzle, working out the best what to break the crate down, what bits of wood to sacrifice, and what angle to attack at :)
But paid the price even though all removed nails went into a bucket, and all bits of wood with nails in to was thrown in a box, a day later I still somehow stepped on a loose nail that went through my shoe and into my heel.:eek:
I had to hobble around for about a week, even now it's not 100%.
Visited a couple of "customers" who used to sneer at me, driving my van and dressed in my snickers, to ask why they hadn't placed any orders for 12 months.....
Haaa Haaa, the Range Rover Sports and Merc CLS's have long gone........the tossers.....one of them even asked if I had any work for his electricians.
Trouble is he wanted paying weekly, not on the 90 -120 days he used to hold me to.....oh how I laughed..
eggs
This all reminds me of when i was a kid in the 60s. If I wanted to build anything my grandad would give me a hammer and big pile of old wood and say go to it......bloody farmers.....cheap sods.
The answer to getting the nails in is pre-drilling the hole, only way with hardwood.
Today I picked up evaps to use with my first combo solar thermal/ASHP test rig ......woohoo... lets see if I blow something up
Blow something up! Something i say when i have my finger on the switch. Said just that to one customer yesterday, turned the switch on...POP! Oh, that sinking feeling. Happened to be a side/side domestic, so i took apart what i'd been working on, tested all o.k. Check circuit breaker, nothing out of place, finger on the switch....flick..POP!:(, turned it off again. This time, stripped it down again and removed all the connectors and just kept temperature sensor plugged in. Went around the back of fridge, finger on switch,....flick..POP!! Now this is getting beyond stupid:mad:! To cut a long story short, turns out the pop noise was not some electrical short but the icemaker door solenoid opening, and if i had just left the switch on, the solenoid would have dis-engaged, and processor would have completed it's self check and started up. Won't get caught again!!..Mike.
No, with hardwood the drill should be 1.5mm if the nail is 1.6mm. Usually, the wood will contract around the nail and hold it tight after it is in.
I'll let you know about the current ASHP that I have built and will start up today (god willing and the creek don't rise, as they say). I really want a good not too expensive DDC control for all the pumps, defrost, fan speed etc, etc etc.
Old trick if you break the last little drill bit, take one of the nails and cut the head off, then file a flat on the one side and make the tip sharp but with edges. Makes a good emergency drill bit.
Was drilling late one afternoon into a concrete roof to install trunking, when the 5mm SDS bit lost it's tip into rebar. Too late to buy another, and only 3 more holes to go. Ground it to a chisel shape and drilled them anyway, it worked well enough to do the 3 holes, though it was round and blunt and very blue afterwards. Took it later and made it into a punch, good use of the old Bosch bits.
I pressed some buttons on the dash in the van, trying to see what oil the service light thingy thought the engine had in it and eneded up with the service reminder saying it was 12,000miles over due a service.
Had to take it to the garage to get it reset with the pluggy in doodah...
I guess a little knowledge truely is dangerous :D
Jon :)
Could be worse, you could have triggered the immobiliser and set off the tracker silent alarm, then have to try to explain to the trigger happy guys who turn up that it is actually your van...............
Ah well, tomorrow I do the brickie thing again, hopefully my plastering skills are improving, or at least this time it will stick to the bleeding bricks properly. Hasta La Vista to the Defy rustbucket, only thing not rusted on it is the plastic control cover. It probably will be coming out as a kit of rust.
Client reported AC not working.
This is what I found.
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Looks like BBQ got out of control - yeah right! Condensing units was toast - literally. Ali coil fins gone, fan blade & motor gone, wiring a blob, only copper tubes left on coil. £3,300 for a replacement system quoted under insurance.
:D Started my 2079.......hope I pass. Otherwise I'm shutting down and going sparkin' :D
Eggs can you drop me a quote for wiring a plug top ( Don't want to see you short of work ;) )Quote:
:D Started my 2079.......hope I pass. Otherwise I'm shutting down and going sparkin' :D
But good luck with the 2079 just in case you don't fancy the wiring job.
Well it looks like the industry is stuck with me for a little while longer....
So is it to be Refcom, Quidos or the other one whatever they're are called?...come to think of it does anyone have a voice on NicEiC, Elecsa or Napit either?
Cheers
Eggs
Yay Eggs! you've passed!
I went with refcom as the others had silly names.
Called to a cold room that wasn't working today and found that the front half of the compressor had fallen off, that'll be why its not workin....
New system time :D
Congrats on the passing! Still working on the new split, been a busy 2 weeks, only able to do little bits as and when. Been so long a rock dove has made it's home in the hole with the blocks, and laid an egg. At least the unit is in and cooling, and the room is mostly repainted ( none of the old colour is left, and I have a lot of the new colour around so did the 2 coats, but it needs 3 and some touch up - only 2 drips on the floor ) with touch ups to do next week.
Belt drive tecumseh thingy, old lorry body now static. Bolt sheared off, shaft worn pulley and fan fell off brushed the condenser fins.
Looks old enough to be on R12 or drop in so thinks its time to move into the 21st century!
Might try and rescue it and make a recovery unit that don't take hours to recover a few kgs :D
Jon :)
Hi Jon
'Old Skool' tricks mate :) reminds me of working on that type with no leccy in sight, running the unit to 'self recover' the refrigerant and then again to 'self vac'.... you could get away with it to get you out of trouble back then with 'MO' but slightly frowned upon these days.... would have to get a genny I suppose
If unit will run, I always pump it down & push/pull the liquid out first, then suck the vapour, saves a lot of time especially when I got to transfer 100+kg.... then same when charging, it just flys in
R's chillerman
Removed and installed a dual water cooled condenser on a 30 year old 80 Kwatt air con unit.
Did all the work myself with only the aid of my apprentice to help remove and put back in.
Allowed the apprentice to pressure test, charge and commission while I watched.
Got the apprentice to check and set the superheat and I watched.
Allowed the apprentice to get me a coffee while I checked his work then t watched.
Got back in the van only to find another job to do, damn thought it was gonna be a short day....
This week I am trying to get my 5kw PV system installed before my contract deadline. At $.80/kwh paid for 20 years, its worth it.
Curretnly trying to weld a leaky Toshiba shrm condenser.. having a bit of a mre tbh
Wet weather today, so my main job was to change a fan motor in a domestic ducted split.
You know how you need long allen key wrenches to go through the fan barrel to the grub screw?
And the long side of the allen key wrench is often 'balled' so it can be used at an angle?
Yeah, mine snapped off at the weak thin point of the allen key wrech in the grub screw. So packed up my gear, buggered off and ordered a new barrel fan for one side :(
Had the wrench set for years and years, and it was 4mm hex that snapped too, the most used one that had to choose that time to fail. Why couldn't it have failed in a outdoor service valve where it could have been drilled out? I don't think anyone sells a 25cm long 2mm drill bit so impossible to drill it out on the indoor fan motor fan. While anywhere else it wouldn't have been a "give up and go home" moment
Refrig install side of the business sorted out with a cheap installer like I mentioned elsewhere/before. Spent the afternoon trying to find someone decent for evaporative cooler work as I get a lot of that and not interested myself.
Never will get successful on the tools all by myself, too busy in summer, too many jobs and phone calls, too many annoyed people doing more harm than good knowing my phone number with me flat out...
So I'm trying to get together a team of good people I can sub off too that don't charge the earth so I can still add mark up and be competitive... While I just stick to the repair side of things.
Had to pull a broken coupling out of an Atlas Copco drum dryer. A right pain as the coupling was 500mm inside the dryer. We drilled and tapped a 12mm hole and fitted studding to make a puller to remove it.Attachment 8250Attachment 8251Attachment 8252The third picture is my son using our high tech puller, doing some work for once! he`s moving on soon so we won`t be working together anymore. We have great fun working together, it makes the day go quicker
Today, I got my 12,000 BTU Toshiba A/C compressor. So I can finally move forward with my projects and use the old small one as a vacuum pump.
Well, good luck with that kompulsa. Was on the blower (phone) to Skope New Zealand. Warranty issues with hardware on a cabinet of theirs, however, Mad F never told us about The city of Christchurch current condition?? City business district only open now to the public after that major earthquake, so long ago now. Businesses working out of containers? 20,000 people went through CBD over the weekend. Hmmm.
Did two site surveys, took a ratchet and spanner back to wholesalers that was left in a special build unit they supplied and got a new monkey wrench!!!
Put up a few shelves for the boss ,drank way to much coffee,watched stupid videos on youtube and generally dossed about.All this time off is starting to bore me.
Gotta look at a coldroom and a serve over tomorrow in exchange for free beer , should be a good Friday so.
Cheers
Stu
Ahhhh, what a life in Ireland.....Him drinkin beer and I'll be on a roof putting up another solar system.
mike-u have to have ginger hair to be a true paddy!!and pale skin helps!