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"Michael A. Terrell" on Wed, 22 Sep 2010

I've got the drawings for the semi inverted nuts that hold the retaining bracket for the end.

The Chrome Plated ones are next to the remote overhead windshield wiper knobs.

I had one of those in my stepvan. :)

You know, that sounds like a fun job. Sad, that you havn't found honest HVAC companies. I'm not sure about my part of the world. I did see a video years ago. A news team had a HVAC system disabled (remove one wire nut from the contactor wire). And then called different companies to come out and look. One cut a wire on the contactor coil, even. I think one of the companies they called noticed the loose wire, and fixed it inexpensively.

When NYS came out with the red dye in heating kerosene. I bought some "red lantern oil" for a friend.

Yes, I've also done some good april fool jokes.

Hey Mike, I worked out at The Kwajalein Missile Range back in 87 and 88, there was a lot of telemetry going on there, did you happen to be working in the telemetry field at the time? It's now The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, I think I know why it was renamed. There was some pretty cool stuff going on there back in the late 80's and I'll bet there is some even cooler stuff going on there now. And speaking of cool, there was a good sized sat dish with a cryo cooled LNA or LNB right near my living quarters. I loved it out in the islands.

TDD

I wanna blow stuff up too! Pleeeez! Meeeee Toooooo! 8-)

TDD

I had a similar experience when I cut a corner too hard and snapped the left front hub out of the brake drum on my 65 Dart and the wheel outran me. o_O

TDD

Muffler bearings and O pipes for your exhaust system can be purchased from this supplier:

There are vocations that require updating your knowledge base often. For electronics the statement often quoted was that half of your knowledge was obsolete in six years.

But HVAC...................... 6 months to a year. You have to be kidding.

Dan

There are vocations that require updating your knowledge base often. For electronics the statement often quoted was that half of your knowledge was obsolete in six years.

But HVAC...................... 6 months to a year. You have to be kidding.

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Not kidding at all.... I do approximately 5 semester hours a year in continuing education just to keep up with the new technologies. The newest super high efficiency systems are serial controlled, with variable frequency inverter drives and can vary their output capacity from 40 - 115%. Even the compressors are driven by electronically commutated, variable speed motors. This technology has only been on the streets for a year or so in residential split systems. If you don't have the proper training, you can cause some very expen$ive problems by something as simple as getting 2 control wires crossed. BTW... all these classes, and training isn't free, and the customer pays for *EVERYTHING*.

I am not a rocket surgen, but my company has been working for excellence for many years. I am *not* "billy-joe-jim-bob". Yes there are a lot of hacks out there, but there are some true professionals out there too. I keep trying to help change the rep that HVAC industry has, and raise the bar in my area. FWIW, my company has all but stopped advertising in the yellow pages, it doesn't need to. 90% of our new customers are all from word of mouth referals.

"Michael A. Terrell" fired this volley in news:nK6dncCJD6qsTQfRnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

Right next to the relative bearing grease.

LLoyd

" snipped-for-privacy@krl.org" fired this volley in news:1f9d55b9- snipped-for-privacy@m1g2000vbh.googlegroups.com:

I have an old US Army refrigeration technology textbook my dad studied from while he was in Diesel school.

Except for azeotropes, there's not one bit of that 1940's technology that has changed one bit. You can still troubleshoot modern units with the superheat tables in it.

Which, by the way, was the only way we charged small systems back in the late 60s, early 70s in Vietnam. Our "kit" consisted of a charging hose (no gauges), two precision thermometers, a wad of heat-conductive putty, and a set of cards with tables for the various units we'd encounter on Swift Boats.

LLoyd

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Yeahbut... that's electronics, not refrigeration technology. Any new industrial machine you can name has the same new features.

F'instance, the new indoor fan motors pretty much come as 3-phase VFD units, with the VFD built into the motor case. It's a fine technology, but it ups the life-cost to the consumer, because many of the motors do NOT have replacement VFD boards available (especially the low-end GE motors) -- where if a start/run cap failed on an older technology motor, it would cost (the tech) pennies to fix.

But that's (again) all electronics. Show me any _substantial_ changes in refrigeration technology.

LLoyd

??? Wiring things incorrectly has always been a problem since there were wires.

That doesn't require any new knowledge.

And PLL is not new technology.

It is new for residential heating and cooling systems, and it does require the knowledge to be able to troubleshoot and repair.