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And racer 29, get a jug of bleach. Put it in a squirt bottle and just spray that whole inside cabinet, coil included.
Some hardware stores sell coil cleaner, easy off oven cleaner would probally work, Simple Green is what I use
on the cabinets.
If you can't wait for the office, and it's hurting your health, you might have to take matters into your own hands.
Tell them you're thinking about getting your own, separate company to come and look at it, and if they find and do anything you're gonna send them the bill.
You're in a tough situation, besides sabatoge, fell free to bounce anything about this around here, moto guys are a kind of family. I think so, anyway.
Heard unbelievable things too about ones in R&D using CO2 as refrigerant. And heating water. Would love something like that.
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Once proper airflow is restored that excess
refrigerant will just result in a warmer coil, but by now I imagine you're prob suffering from an inneficient compressor caused by who knows how many years of floodback & then they noticed couldn't adjust charge w/o compressor shutting itself off.
Just got back Thurs nite from 3 days training at Daikin University for the VRV systems. Manufacture requires contractor to be trained to sell and cover warranty on the VRV/VRF systems. Did the install and commissionig training. Gonna go back and do 4 more days for controls and service.
We have been in installing these systems since the 80s but it's a whole new ballgame with the commercial VRV systems that can replace chiller plants, and large VAV systems.
The controls and commissioning on this stuff is like trying to read the repair manual for the spaceshuttle. To make it worse the translation from Japanes makes it more confusing.
Interesting stuff but I miss the old days when you could trouble shoot anything with a meter, set of guages, and an understanding of ohms law.
There are a few apt complexes that have their maintence guys do a lot of the easier stuff around here.
Charge up leakers in the spring, clean coils like racer29s.
They use the stuff. Re Michaels sells it,
They might call us for a stuck reversing valve, a txv.
Never happened to me, but a few guys in the shop say, even when you reclaim it, if you don't cut the part out, if you
use a torch and unsweat it, it's pretty wild when it breaks loose. Stand back they say.
I tell you guys, what really pisses me off, and this might piss off some of the younger guys, is what guys like SCR are going thru.
Having to learn and buy the stuff that's coming from foreign companies.
The ductless stuff, it was explained to me, we are so far behind them because Asia, and Europe have been using that kind of product since the early 1950s. There isn't a lot of ductwork over there. They have been honing and perfecting
that stuff for over half a century. They have been dealing with scarce energy while we have been living large, and basically not giving a rats behind on how much a kW of electricity costs.
Why aren't we, as a Nation, not jumping on the bandwagon?
All this coal we have, 100s of years worth, not being used because nobody can figure out how to burn it cleanly.
Apps up the ass, but the engineers at Carrier and Trane are sending jobs to other nations because they need the cheap labor to stay afloat making yesterday's news.
In other words, where are the Harold Goodmans?
Those 2 trades, especially the plumbers, are hurting for young guys.
The general stigma is keeping a lot of guys out of plumbing, so the guys that are in it are, kind of killing it.
And most everyone is scared to death of electricity, so those that master it can pretty much command a good pay.
HVAC, there are so many segments, fabricator in a shop, installer, service guy, residential, commercial, Industrial,
then throw refrigeration in there, it's all kinda the same, but it's all kind of different.
Myself, I kinda like riding around in my little van, pulling 4 or 5 calls a day, meeting different people, doing something different every 2 hours.
The thing is, it doesn't matter much which way you go.
I know a guy, took 4 years college, he's maybe 26, worked his way thru as a helper, got his degree and really is going after it. Youngest service manager for one of the biggest ac companies in the area. He's in line to get part of the business when the owners retire. He's smart, he hustles, he's good with customers, and he knows HVAC.
That kind of guy is gonna make it in any business.
That's what one should focus on, learn the trade, pick a good company, be loyal, demand your share, produce
and be honest.
As far as the certificate, get as many as you can, for whatever trade you feel is right for you.
And yeah, I got out of high school, same as you, I was done with going to class. Just couldn't do it.
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