I Now Have a Fin Comb

Bizzarefurhead picked up a fin comb for me at Harbor Freight Tools. This video is pretty pointless and mainly intended as a smarty-pants reply to the trickle of people who still drop by my original "How to Improve Your Air Conditioner's Efficiency" video series only to say that I am stupid and should be using a fin comb. Which is totally missing the point, as well as my intention. (The intention was to use a tool that the average homeowner would have, even if it wasn't the fastest or the best.)

No, I wouldn't blame you if you were to downrate this video. I may sound crabby, but that's not intended. It's more of a dryly humorous response.

Anyway, now I've got one. Also, this is the second shortest video I've ever made. :-)

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[tstatech]

Never was there a more useless tool. Good for damaging the coil and your knuckles. I use the tip of a small screw driver or pocket knife to straighten fins. You can't realign ten fins at once. The comb will just stick.

[uxwbill]

@tstatech Please go and look at the video to which this is a response. There really is no pleasing everyone. I've used a screwdriver for years with good results and recommended that for the average person, only to attract a LOT of comments (some polite, others not so much and now all such comments are being rejected) that basically said "you really should use a fin comb". So I got a cheap one and, well, it figures that a comment like this would come along.

I just can't win. :-)

[tstatech]

@uxwbill I wasn't trying to step on toes. Just throwing my two cents in. Which should be worth more than two cents because I have been an HVACR tech for the last 21 years. Trust me I own 1 or 2 fin combs but they don't ride with me in the service van. They stay in the toolbox in corner with all the other tools that where supposed to be a good idea.

Any one looking for a good way to clean a coil should try a toilet brush.

I'm going to look at that video right now, uxwbill

Keep up the good wrk

[uxwbill]

@tstatech No, I understand, and I didn't really take it as such, hence the smiley. I'm not a tech, just a guy who knows a little (or moderate amount) about a lot of things.

I have used a toilet brush to clean coils in the past. It gets me funny looks.

[OlegKostoglatov]

I didn't even know that they had such a gadget? Is it for straightening condenser and evaporator fins or just cleaning them? For the cleaning I thought you used a chemical cleaner and a hose?

[uxwbill]

@OlegKostoglatov It just straightens them, although the friction of doing so might serve to do some cleaning as well.

[uxwbill]

@thebibleisfiction ...but I will!

[thebibleisfiction]

okthnxbai? you didnt even show it in action

:( 

[V8Jagnut]

owww your gona bleed one day when using that. but good to see you have one :D

[smegzilla69]

im only 17 but a wire brush worked just as good

[schomminater]

I have one of those that my dad bought years ago. It is a handy little tool.

[727JeffN]

I can use one of those!

[mjmcomputers]

i have the same fin comb from harbor freight.

[KrankieV2]

yep those things are useful. never thought about using one on a window unit though

[pskittle488]

@uxwbill

Monty Python??? Go on.