I would recover the refrigerant, cut the line set, add copper elbows on both suction and liquid to make it neat and accessible. Replace or add a filter dryer. Nitrogen flood the lines while braizing. pump it down to 250 microns, break with dry nitrogen, do this 3 times. then charge with virgin refrigerant.
The only thing here is that the customer would be wondering why the heck we wanted to mess with a new install AND the A/C company I used to work for here would not have allowed us to do it. They cared about quanity over quality.
This shit cracks me up! And I dont mean the installation of the a/c unit. This jackass has nothing better to do, than going around and video taping this shit. I wonder if he runs back to his boss like a little nark, and rats out his co-workers. You need an ass whippin dude.
Your right shabby installers couldnt have connected there hoses but its copper no matter how tight it was you could always bend the hi side enough to get that hose on
@salcedojorge ...I use 3 black hoses hoses on my gauges....refrigerant is color-blind and doesn't care what color hose you use....I can't believe how many people are trying to pick the fly shat out of the pepper....THE POINT IS THE INSTALLER WAS A HACK!!...He never evacuated the system (if you think he did, pls explain how) and he never checked the sub-cooling (again, pls explain how)...its so basic!....if he'd have plumbed his copper a little better, there;d be no discussion!!
Why would a working man run down another underpaid technician about the schrader valve access? It seems to me the schrader should be engineered clear of the line port like they used to be. That would require more brass and possibly an ell which would drive the cost up $2 each and profits would suffer.
Next time you complain about how crappy someone else did, take a look at the equipment.
The manufacturing fat cats are laughing at these videos.
You have ZERO idea what you are talking and unlike the person who commented AFTER you well understood (xplicytlude) you've missed the entire point.
The installers obviously installed a brand new system and not only did they not care about the access to the port, they clearly didn't even bother to connect a hose there to vacuum or charge. Which is typical for hackers who are pushed by a boss like this one to bang in an install as quick as possible.
i go out to shit like this, i fix it and charge the hell out of them for it, i know its not there fault but goddamn its got to be done.
pressures have to be checked, doors have to be opened, im not gonna be the sorry ass who doesnt inspect the whole unit while im waiting on vacuum, etc
Charge who? The customer? The thing was this was a brand new unit. And they usually sold the 10 yr part and labor warranties too. When the tech went to work on the stuff they were STUCK because it was NEW through the co we worked for, warranties by the manufacture, and we had a boss that thought repairs like TXV's, etc could be done properly in 2 hours every time and would over schedule the calls each day!
The coworker made this video. But with as tight of a run as the line was from the wall to the unit, he'd have to turn the unit diaginal to make the line come out straight form the valve enough to get the hose attached. The install should have had some more copper added to do it right but as you can see in some of these videos, I think using any extra copper may have been a forbidden item for the installers to use!
If I was still working for those bums, I'd have to get me one of those! (This video was taken by my coworker).
We were wondering how these installers had their gauge on the high side port. We are fairly certain that they had no such device to fit their hose onto that port! :p
It was a coworker who sent me this video (as noted in the info). I think he was using that hose to demonstrate that there was NO WAY to get any hose in there to check the high side pressure. Also proved that there was no way that the installers used that port during evacuation either!
I got 2 h10 you plug in and 1 with batteries and took 1 plug in and did a roger clemens into our dumpster after the same swith I had fixed stopped working again. I swear the yellow jacket handheld will do just about the same. Even tells you on a scale from 1-9 how bad leak you are detecting. carrier reps say H-10 is the best still, but I find it to be the same. Maybe I just know where carriers leak.. cough*(Evap)
lol I cant find the one with the port caps I saw the other night but lol I watched it and loled. I had a replaced unit by our own company ffs.. Lady said it needed a pound every year since. I whipped out yellow jacket leak detector (the new one) Actually is I think better than an h10 <-- hate h10. The f leak was at the port with the cap lol, pulled metal cap off truck and replaced and tightened with small channel locks. Ok ma'am leak fixed lol.
You got a battery powered one that is as good as the H10? Nice. The company my bro in law works for gives them a bag with an H10, battery and inverter! I guess they really like them! They are sensitive, but you have to adjust the knob a lot. My cheap hand held does me just fine. It's an inficon. Only has HI and Lo and one idiot light :p
They make 90 degree fittings that you buy and they in a quick connect configuration that allows you to get to harder areas like that maybe and you just release the quick connect fitting like on an air compressor hose so you don't have the refrigerant spraying out while you try to unscrew the hose which always happens with the regular screw on hose by the time you completely unattach it fron the unit
and you aalso don't get freezerburn eitther with qickconnect hose fittings.
lol, maybe a push on the unit will get your hose on but wtf. You outta be able to screw that baby on and diagnose. What a bunch of commision having rejects. They either don't know or don't care about the other side of hvac.
Oh they had them. But I wonder if it was EVER hooked up to THAT port? My coworker who took THIS video was using a small hose adapter. If it couldn't go on, nothing else was either! 15 extra minutes and a few inches of copper would have done the job right. But this company cared more about getting it done fast, than getting it done with quality!
Oh gawd, those suck as well! Those techs never heard of a new cap with an O-RING!?
And out here I find that them under trained Chas Roberts techs leave the caps loose, off and the king valve caps loose as well! Even though on them new king valve caps printed in ENGLISH it says to TORQUE them on!
I would recover the refrigerant, cut the line set, add copper elbows on both suction and liquid to make it neat and accessible. Replace or add a filter dryer. Nitrogen flood the lines while braizing. pump it down to 250 microns, break with dry nitrogen, do this 3 times. then charge with virgin refrigerant.
MrCraz6r 2 weeks ago
@MrCraz6r
WOW! Virgin refer and all!
You really don't trust this install! :-)
The only thing here is that the customer would be wondering why the heck we wanted to mess with a new install AND the A/C company I used to work for here would not have allowed us to do it. They cared about quanity over quality.
hackfreehvac 4 days ago
MAC line tap kit?
probably just bend it.
or a keener would take out a pt chart and check their SCT to get pressure
7upac 4 months ago
u should cut that 3/8 line thats getting in the way with a pair o' pliers so u can connect ur gages
348frank348 9 months ago
This shit cracks me up! And I dont mean the installation of the a/c unit. This jackass has nothing better to do, than going around and video taping this shit. I wonder if he runs back to his boss like a little nark, and rats out his co-workers. You need an ass whippin dude.
marshalljimduncan 11 months ago
I hate crap like that.
zippo49 1 year ago
Thanks for the mean spirited reply.
kengine7 1 year ago
Your right shabby installers couldnt have connected there hoses but its copper no matter how tight it was you could always bend the hi side enough to get that hose on
xplicytlude 1 year ago
@xplicytlude
Yup, that's how I got the line on. Bent the shat out of the 3/8 line.
hackfreehvac 1 year ago
Call me crazy or stupid, but is that a blue hose going in the HIGH side, who is the stupid one??
salcedojorge 9 months ago
@salcedojorge My thought exactly! Maybe he has been in the sun to long!
Wrong gage sherlock!
MasterStreetTeacher 6 months ago
@MasterStreetTeacher
The SUN is a factor.
This video was of my coworker. But he was just using that hose for a demonstration.
The point is 1) the install shouldn't be that way and 2) how did the installers have their hose connected?
hackfreehvac 5 months ago
@salcedojorge ...I use 3 black hoses hoses on my gauges....refrigerant is color-blind and doesn't care what color hose you use....I can't believe how many people are trying to pick the fly shat out of the pepper....THE POINT IS THE INSTALLER WAS A HACK!!...He never evacuated the system (if you think he did, pls explain how) and he never checked the sub-cooling (again, pls explain how)...its so basic!....if he'd have plumbed his copper a little better, there;d be no discussion!!
cameron030362 2 months ago
@cameron030362
AMEN!
hackfreehvac 2 months ago
@xplicytlude Well this guy have been in the sun too long. He is trying to put the suction line gage on the high side. Ok!
MasterStreetTeacher 6 months ago
Why would a working man run down another underpaid technician about the schrader valve access? It seems to me the schrader should be engineered clear of the line port like they used to be. That would require more brass and possibly an ell which would drive the cost up $2 each and profits would suffer.
Next time you complain about how crappy someone else did, take a look at the equipment.
The manufacturing fat cats are laughing at these videos.
kengine7 1 year ago
@kengine7
You have ZERO idea what you are talking and unlike the person who commented AFTER you well understood (xplicytlude) you've missed the entire point.
The installers obviously installed a brand new system and not only did they not care about the access to the port, they clearly didn't even bother to connect a hose there to vacuum or charge. Which is typical for hackers who are pushed by a boss like this one to bang in an install as quick as possible.
hackfreehvac 1 year ago
Looks like a "handy mans" work.
grafsupra705 1 year ago
your a hack and your helper prolly has more brains than you. But please keep at it. Your one of the contractors that give me a good name.
mufichman 2 years ago
another shitty job, by another shitty scab worker
ShyBoy13 2 years ago
the high side is over rated! lol
txmanzilla 2 years ago
why are you checking the high side pressure with your blue line thats connected to your compound gauge?
alaskablows 2 years ago
@alaskablows -- I was wondering the same thing! Also, I hope he has a low loss fitting on the high side hose.
nchilltopper 1 year ago
i go out to shit like this, i fix it and charge the hell out of them for it, i know its not there fault but goddamn its got to be done.
pressures have to be checked, doors have to be opened, im not gonna be the sorry ass who doesnt inspect the whole unit while im waiting on vacuum, etc
local614bro 3 years ago
Charge who? The customer? The thing was this was a brand new unit. And they usually sold the 10 yr part and labor warranties too. When the tech went to work on the stuff they were STUCK because it was NEW through the co we worked for, warranties by the manufacture, and we had a boss that thought repairs like TXV's, etc could be done properly in 2 hours every time and would over schedule the calls each day!
hackfreehvac 3 years ago
AHAHAHAHA! Sorry man, but that's hilarious!
whiskeywilliams 3 years ago
bend that pipe a little back man...........
runway1300 3 years ago 2
The coworker made this video. But with as tight of a run as the line was from the wall to the unit, he'd have to turn the unit diaginal to make the line come out straight form the valve enough to get the hose attached. The install should have had some more copper added to do it right but as you can see in some of these videos, I think using any extra copper may have been a forbidden item for the installers to use!
hackfreehvac 3 years ago
the more important question is how do you think they pulled a good vac on this unit?
daveschloemer 3 years ago
You can probably make a good guess on that, given that they didn't care to make the liquid line accessable... :p
hackfreehvac 3 years ago
There is a cd5050 connectors that you can attached to the end of your hose so you can have it fit in tight spot.
neilblackdog 3 years ago
If I was still working for those bums, I'd have to get me one of those! (This video was taken by my coworker).
We were wondering how these installers had their gauge on the high side port. We are fairly certain that they had no such device to fit their hose onto that port! :p
hackfreehvac 3 years ago
Where is low lose fitting and why are you hooking up the blue hose?
Chuggiebrown 3 years ago
It was a coworker who sent me this video (as noted in the info). I think he was using that hose to demonstrate that there was NO WAY to get any hose in there to check the high side pressure. Also proved that there was no way that the installers used that port during evacuation either!
hackfreehvac 3 years ago
I got 2 h10 you plug in and 1 with batteries and took 1 plug in and did a roger clemens into our dumpster after the same swith I had fixed stopped working again. I swear the yellow jacket handheld will do just about the same. Even tells you on a scale from 1-9 how bad leak you are detecting. carrier reps say H-10 is the best still, but I find it to be the same. Maybe I just know where carriers leak.. cough*(Evap)
hemiownzu 3 years ago
LOL! Knowing where them bastards leak helps!
On RTU's I find them to be leaking at the elbow on the discharge line near the compressor.
hackfreehvac 3 years ago
lol I cant find the one with the port caps I saw the other night but lol I watched it and loled. I had a replaced unit by our own company ffs.. Lady said it needed a pound every year since. I whipped out yellow jacket leak detector (the new one) Actually is I think better than an h10 <-- hate h10. The f leak was at the port with the cap lol, pulled metal cap off truck and replaced and tightened with small channel locks. Ok ma'am leak fixed lol.
hemiownzu 3 years ago
You got a battery powered one that is as good as the H10? Nice. The company my bro in law works for gives them a bag with an H10, battery and inverter! I guess they really like them! They are sensitive, but you have to adjust the knob a lot. My cheap hand held does me just fine. It's an inficon. Only has HI and Lo and one idiot light :p
hackfreehvac 3 years ago
They make 90 degree fittings that you buy and they in a quick connect configuration that allows you to get to harder areas like that maybe and you just release the quick connect fitting like on an air compressor hose so you don't have the refrigerant spraying out while you try to unscrew the hose which always happens with the regular screw on hose by the time you completely unattach it fron the unit
and you aalso don't get freezerburn eitther with qickconnect hose fittings.
lahusso 3 years ago
The quick connect fittings also come in a 45
degree angle also for refrigerant hoses as well as 90 degree angle fittings.All of your HVAC
wholesalers like Berkheimers and places like that carry them.
lahusso 3 years ago
LOL! I had asked him that myself. He had mismatched hoses for a few days when one broke. Had to take an extra BLUE hose for his high side.
hackfreehvac 3 years ago
lol, maybe a push on the unit will get your hose on but wtf. You outta be able to screw that baby on and diagnose. What a bunch of commision having rejects. They either don't know or don't care about the other side of hvac.
hemiownzu 3 years ago
We wondered how they pulled a vacuum and properly charged the system.
hackfreehvac 3 years ago
The installers probably didn't even have a vacuum pump.
DrZarkloff 3 years ago
Oh they had them. But I wonder if it was EVER hooked up to THAT port? My coworker who took THIS video was using a small hose adapter. If it couldn't go on, nothing else was either! 15 extra minutes and a few inches of copper would have done the job right. But this company cared more about getting it done fast, than getting it done with quality!
hackfreehvac 3 years ago
just about as good as the ports that have the cap leak locked on
lpaz24 4 years ago
Oh gawd, those suck as well! Those techs never heard of a new cap with an O-RING!?
And out here I find that them under trained Chas Roberts techs leave the caps loose, off and the king valve caps loose as well! Even though on them new king valve caps printed in ENGLISH it says to TORQUE them on!
hackfreehvac 4 years ago