 We're gonna go help some people out in the Appalachian Mountains down in Eastern Kentucky. She's a real beauty, Clark. Heck yeah, look at that. Oh, yeah. I ran after her through a piece of PVC pipe. It's not too bad for 1983. All right, so we found one leak right there. You can see the little bubbles and that's in a really bad spot. All right, so we just converted these one nire layer and over there. All right, so we ended up having to clean this thing all out. So we're checking out to see if we can find some bears. This video is brought to you in part by True Tech Tools. Quality tools, essential support. All right guys, so we're ready to go on a little trip here. We've got refrigerants, lots of tools, gauges, all kinds of stuff, parts. We're gonna go help some people out in the Appalachian Mountains down in Eastern Kentucky, down in Lynch County, down in Lynch. So let's go see what's going on. All right, so we're loaded up full crud. We're just getting ready to go. We are heading down the Interstate 75. We got one guy in front of us there rolling smoke. We're heading on down there. We got right at about five hours and 34 minutes area. I'll have to show you a little rolling smoke here a little bit so it'll be good to show. Bring the kids. Make sure you got your popcorn ready. I got our co-pilot here. This is a movie. He's our maintenance guy. He's the one who hooked me up with the refrigerator and freezer repairs we done. So yeah, you're welcome for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we think I can do the help. Let's get over it. City barbecue here. Got the pulled pork sandwich. Nice big moka junk and moka cornbread. I'm sure this is totally good for my health when I hammer this thing down. Unfortunately, it's 8.17. We still haven't gotten started yet, but we've had breakfast. I got my bed made. I don't want too bad, does it? There's what I usually eat, but we got a little bit of eggs and sausage and stuff. Eggs and all kinds of good stuff and stuff like that. So I'm ready to bounce out of here as soon as we get our orders of where we're going to. All right, so we gotta say good old blowing capacitors. That's a pretty simple fix it. All right, so we got the capacitor on there. This is a double-sided coil, so we're going to wash it out, but this really is not the right weather to try to set up an oil furnace. So this is the backyard. I literally right up the back side there. Kind of an entering device we've got. We've got a hog hair follower. Cap two probably. The line size is capped down from 3 eighths to something. Oh my. Oh my. Yeah, that's the beauty. She's a real beauty, Clark. Heck yeah, look at that. That's the way you do her. Yeah, take a look at that. Look at that. That's the pipe behind you. That's the fuel. That fuel needs to be cleaned out. Where's it? Hello, boy. Yeah, sir. Oh, yeah, that's nice. I need your placed. Make sure it's touched. All I'm going to do is we'll just make sure they know that this needs this. Oh my goodness. Look at this barometric hole. They got tied in here. These little holes saw. Wow. Look at that. That's plenty. These are to get in there in the filter area. Fame blades packed full. No, they look good. They're good. Okay. There's the breaker box. This is the reason why we ended up doing it live. Oh, yeah. Good old water heater. Yeah, water heater still works too. Check that out. There's the oil filter. Haven't seen one like that before, but that one. Duck works all undersized. Looks like we got maybe five inches. I don't even look like six. Nice. I don't know. It's all good, dog. We're making it happen. You got some isolation relays in here. Fuel oil burners locked out. Got the old flash. That's a fairly newer burner here in the last 10, 15 years. So it's got that anti-reset button that'll keep them from killing themselves. There's your sub pump. Yeah, that's good. Bring it through here. That is. We could spend a month here just doing stuff, fixing things up. That is quite the feet. Wow. Look at that rain head. I ran it through a piece of PVC pipe. Yesterday I knew not what one was. Today I is one. You turned that air conditioner on first? Yes. Superheat's 26, sub-coil's 11. We ain't off by much, but once we get that coil clean though, we'll see whether or not that changes the story a little bit. Let's probably all pack cool crud. We'll get a, lose a lot of our artificial heat. You got tools? Sure. Victim number two. Presser ain't running, so we gotta check her out, see what we got here. Coil's surprisingly clean. Well, unfortunately it's got open winding, so that's the end of that one. They're gonna need to replace the unit. The price of the compressor would not be worth it. This is a heat pump with electric strips and air conditioning capable. Pretty nice unit in its day. Basically a first generation P-TEC. On to the next one. All right, so there's the outside of the building there. It goes down to there underneath the street. This is one of the other houses they're working on. They're rehabbing this here for like a women's shelter after they get done with rehab and stuff to kind of get themselves back online. So I believe they're just trying to get at least one section of it going so they can start using it. The old mansion entry with herringbone floors. Check that out. Is that a new floor? Nice. Take this thing outside so we can get her cleaned up. It's not too bad for 1983. We got the coils cleaned out both sides. Got it all done up. Got the motors. There's a closed cell motors there. They got a little wet. Not bad. We'll let them set for a while but we're not using the acid. An acid usually takes some motors out. Looks like it's never been screwed with so I don't see a reason to tap it. It seems like it was nice and cold. I think just people don't understand it. Somebody put the control in wrong. You got to put it in heat to do cooling and cooling to put it in heat. But this connection thing I got in here it kind of I don't know what they did. I think there's no schematic. I don't want to spend all day. We can get more things done. This one works. We're moving on to the next. All right so this one here unfortunately or fortunately I guess whatever you want to call it actually works the way it should. They thought that you had to put it on heat to get cool or whatever. We sat here and waited forever and started taking it apart. See if we knocked off some wires and it's working great in cool mode with a turn up to cool which is kind of weird how they did that. It's a little bit weird. You can see the coolings to the right, warmers to the left which you know usually is cooler to the left but it was made in the left handed nation who knows. So anyhow this one's working good. Coil's acclaimed. We're going to go check out a mobile home unit that's leaking and so we're going to do lunch and head to that next. Let's head to the next one. All right so we've got this modular home back here. It's got a leaky coil so they said. Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that cool? It's awesome. Take the razor down through that stuff so I'm pretty sure this is the guy's house but it's not going to door make sure it is. It sounds like it's a package unit. All right so he's going to get that thing washed out. I'm going to look for a leak so we'll get the uh leak detector out here. All right so we got our detect three. Let's give this thing a shot so we can find the leak. All right let's see if it goes off of the walk of the building. It's not a split system but I've seen right off the bat and it didn't bring us over here to bring all the air through so looks like we've got leaks going on somewhere in this ballpark right here so we'll scan this thing over. All we have to do is shut her down. Give her a quick scan see what we find. Of course we're just fraying that fan all the time so. All right so we found one leak right there. You can see the little bubbles and that's in a really bad spot and then the other leak this is a ICP basically a carrier so we've got another leak right right back here in the infamous since she didn't have to get close. Look at that little detect three finding it before even get up to the coil so yeah we'll pull her back here and give her a moment to come back in. Yeah we didn't even want that coil again we're three inches away so yep got to come in to her fast and steady there so old detect three to the wind. That probably don't drain so good because it's like at an angle there they don't know what sheet metal is down here so the silver tapes all the used around the corners so he's going to have some bales replace this because I don't have one of these on the truck so I wraps this one up onto the next one. All right so we're heading back that wasn't much we could do on that coil sleek and kind of going back to see what what else they've got I guess they got multiple different projects so the good thing I brought the saw only to be able to chop us up some wood and make this new air conditioner fit right in the wall this is the one we found the compressor windings open earlier so we got that in there making it happen what else we got. I've got a school building that's been repurposed here so we've got a training unit we're going to look at check out see if there's anything we can do with it possibly have a bad compressor we've got a lot of through the wall units here that could use a good cleaning probably just going to see if we're going to prioritize what exactly needs to be done first and you can tell that just a lot of them probably just need pulled out and cleaned. All right so this one here one compressor works one doesn't and circuit number two is low we're kind of looking for the leaf we notice down here we got some oil on the bottom notice like just a little bit of oil look on this insulation we don't know why it's there though because it really shouldn't be anywhere else. That'd be great for just a bad circuit number two is it we'll cut that dog loose let's get in that thing make that bio wild bark I haven't got hardly any footage at all I'd like to go school here man get a big old mountain background I wonder if that football field's any good anymore we'll use that for anything got a little sniff in the sniff probably just floated across probably bluetooth oil and got bad signal and got stuck here I wonder if that's made from them oil and bearings when they shouldn't have oiled them maybe and it flew off you know I mean seeing some of the things that we've seen industry standards aren't really practiced all right so the unit's low on charge we gotta see if they want to try to pick up some refrigerant they got a friend of a friend who knows a friend in the back alley so now we're looking at some exhaust hoods or exhaust exhaust fans one there there and over there see that's a weird little red wasp they want to reach out and give you a little kiss where'd they go there he is on the top he just flew away there's a copper wire holding the tensioner awesome got a little tensioner there that probably came off somebody's car or something that is original that's Kentucky engineer in there I don't think that was original to the uh it probably wasn't I've always wondered why not just do that but you know why not it's hard to tighten them up make it the easy way hi we'll be on camera we'll be on youtube mr wasp here you go so here's an update of what's going on so we're gonna put 427a in here because that's what they had available so we pulled back on it had a funny feeling that might be restricted and sure enough filter dryer is restricted now the question is why i'm not real sure so we're pulling back out the 12 pounds 10 ounces that I put in there because I just got it as much as I could and filled it in there so we're gonna get that out we're gonna chop up the filter dryer the guy of the building here is gone to pick one up from another company for this building like I said is an old school they're using it as a teen outreach eventually it's gonna be turned into a foster home for kids abandonment rate down here in eastern Kentucky is pretty high it is a christian organization and uh they're they're working on doing that we're doing what we can like I said we're doing all this for free they just happened on this particular one they're providing the refrigerator and another guy is I didn't want to use all the r22 up on this one when I had other window units I got to do yet as soon as we uh get it done I mean I it's a 3d scroll I'm not 100 positive if this will work with it there's no internet down here I tried getting on their wi-fi that's not working but at this point you know they do karate down here in the gym area this like I said school has been shut down I think since the early 90s it ain't like they got the money to do a bunch of work so we're just trying to make it work as long as we can and kind of go from there sometimes you can't make everything perfect just got to do what you can make it go all right so we got this thing cut loose systems recovered it definitely was plugged up you can try blowing through this thing you're all the oil stuck in it it just barely comes through at all half temp to cut this turkey open we're gonna take a look inside there and see what we got because we're waiting on another one yet all right so we're evacuating this thing down got the filter dryer replaced how to reduce it there just to leave it or evacuate and dropping down getting her there so there's quickest way just pull it all back through again and we'll suck that back into it and you're used as much as we can get back into the system hopefully we don't have any restrictions on the uh orifices it's only able to get about 10 pounds in there liquid that is some wild stuff go ahead and get this other tank hooked up all right so we got our super heat right around 12 degrees area sub-cooling right around 20 we're going to go ahead and hook on to this other unit which is our 22 still we got everything back on there so we're going to check this one out real fast a little zipper roo in there ah tell youtube land look at him one of your students are going to see this let's put his name on there making payments we'll blank that out all right let's see where we're at here we're on 22 so super heat's 31 25 sub-cooling head pressure is a little low we've got to bleed our gauges out here you can go by the charts if you want that's the way technically supposed to be done but we're running a 31 degree vape or orifices i only i don't even think we even have a chart on this thing anymore um the thing only held technically we had to adjust it and take some back out um 13 pounds out of the 17 so it's just little less than probably 79 percent of the total charge so i don't know i've never used this 422 or 427a stuff before i don't know if that's good i had about a pound and a half of this thing kind of waiting to see if super heat changed a little bit i know you aren't supposed to do by super heat but we have no chart you can see what kind of water we're pulling out of this system that's the humidity removal right there buddy not really the right trap board either so we got that thing running had about a 20 degree super heat brought the building down to 68 degrees which is great he's happy i'm happy we accomplished one good one we're gonna head back to camp and uh kind of eat and then we'll have whatever going on is going on so other than that we'll catch you guys tomorrow or later tonight depending on what's going on all right so we're down here in the basement of this old school that is cold fired boiler comes in got the uh fan shoot through the tube and boy that had been a good time to clean out that had been so much fun here's your loot pumps how would you have loot pumps on a i was gonna say since when does steam have water pumps you know you know what the hard for loop is right hard for insurance company had to invent how to make these things not explode so they would take the loop from the top and take it to the back of the boiler to prevent it from exploding from the cold water hitting the hot chamber what happens is he's can uh if they run themselves dry and then all of a sudden the water comes back and hits that hot metal it'll explode and that blows the scrap and they're everywhere and I tell you get your bomb so the hard for insurance company after having because they were having explosions all the time and they were trying to figure out ways to get rid of that so they came out with a hard for loop which came standard so this is hard for blue it comes up the top comes right back down to the return and that way it never completely runs dry this is another building we're working on doing the lights and stuff so oil and kill switch each some here we go inspection yeah it was the last day it looks like maybe a 99 it's part of day show one it's just 20 years ago that wasn't that long you know so this is school we were working in yesterday lots of things that need to be done there's the Alabama swing we talked about last time sure why not all right so we just converted these all over led lighting two bulbs so we had a bunch of ballast to remove got them all cleaned out so now they're going to save some money there the bulbs are nice and bright and they are wired for two right now they're wired for four but they're going to be able to run just two plenty of lighting in here all right so we ended up having to clean this thing all out and we did make ice not a crap load of ice but we did make ice it looks a lot better and it did it was pretty dirty definitely had to soak that probe there got it adjusted somebody screwed out all up and the other guy said that the control board might be bad but it was just mainly the sensor there nice thickness probe was too uh too dirty and it definitely wasn't adjusted right so got that going at least got that finished up form so we're checking out to see if we can find some bears and we're kind of crawling up the hill here and they got the van door open there they're trying to sneak up on keep your hands on the steering wheel all right so here's where we went we went down this hill as you can see so more please keep you safe Lord keep you safe climbed up without slipping at all not bad for street tires we climbed right up that thing not bad at all but that's it for bear watching all right today we are turning into a window unit that they use in one of their shops can't tell it's definitely not getting hot but it's pumping you can hear it running have a feeling it's probably low on refrigeration unfortunately yeah see right here start to freeze up haven't gotten a lot of video here so far but a lot of it's just you guys already know how to do it so we're just kind of showing what we're getting done more than how to do it r32 i'm not even sure what r32 is so i'll look at it all right so just check the spec sheet on this this has very similar properties to 410a and since we're not going to get 32 anytime soon and since this is probably a hundred dollar two hundred and forty dollar unit it was just built not too long ago in 2019 i'm going to probably pull the refrigerant out and switch this thing over to 410a and see how it does yeah it was manufactured december of 2019 so 2021 so we're not even a year and something all this thing's already jumped so it's probably somebody gave it to him a bit gotta say tap brazed on there going to worse this nasty coil out see if we can make this thing run it don't look like it but it's clean so we got that cleaned up pulling it back on this thing we're juiced it up see how it reacts kind of go from there so so far we've added nine ounces and three quarters it's holding around 6.8 and the specs i'm reading on this thing it supposedly has high head pressure normally 32 does um got a 48 superheat 17 degree evaporator basically i'm trying to get it in there with the superheat or try to get it maybe in the 20s and see how we do from there this is a capillary tube system maybe maybe a little higher i'm not sure what i want to do yet so we're slowly knifing on diamond it in i started with it less than the refrigerant this is not the right way to do it but the alternatives throw it away so um if you watch the beginning of the show or not there's just not a whole lot to pick from around here for what we want or need most things here have been donated and some of it's been you know given to them broken and you're trying to make it work and if i can squeeze out maybe a couple months of use out of this thing and you know that was a couple months they didn't have you may disagree with my philosophy on this but it's not like the local hardware is going to have this refrigerant that i need and from what i read it's kind of hard to even find that's what we're doing you don't like it sorry you don't have an understanding of what's going on here and you should probably just stop the video and not watch it otherwise continue watching on let's continue to see what we can do with this thing we're running about a 29 degree evaporator okay so i've been scanning this whole thing over and uh i haven't picked up one leak all right so we've got us an lg here i went ahead and popped the cover off of it they claimed that they supposedly never used it but you can see the hack blue group group group crap there they didn't valve it off so they didn't front seat it and so it's been exposed to the moisture all that time so i'm doing now is checking for resistance to ground in between the leaves make sure it's all equal got the head over there which it's been screwed together my feeling is that probably was a leaker and they took it out and donated it they said it runs they also told them it never been ran before so i don't believe that part but i gave the board a sniff the board doesn't smell burnt smells normal so i'm gonna check this grounding we had 3.1 ohms to each individual lead nothing to ground so we're good there gonna find out what we need for wiring on this and then we're gonna go get some flare nuts for it when we go to look at the guy's compressor that we just got done checking his window unit for all right so he's finished up on that i just took this cover off here and so we're checking this thing over looks like they got a electronic air cleaner or something built into this thing which is very unusual never seen one of those before all right so we're trying to find a flaring nut so we've got a some regular bolts here and stuff to pick from might have got lucky it looks like 3.8 and quarter right there i think well maybe yeah 3.8 and quarter boy he's quick look at him johnny on spot let's see if this thing will match up here so here should fit right there put it on straight there we go appreciate it and this one right here look at that you must pray for a little bit kneel over here how cool is that they even got wagos here check that out heck yeah that's what you need do it yourself like there you go it's all you need mount that thing on the wall somehow the roof jack thing all right so we haven't got some angle iron i chopped out a chunk out of the middle and we'll make this into the bracket people that donated the piece didn't donate the back bracket because they must not thought about it so we're going to make this into this as best we can and unfortunately we don't have no high voltage wiring uh 230 volts to run outside so unfortunately we're not going to be able to run this thing but we can at least get it piped in drain line ran and evacuated and hopefully charged if we can find a data tag on it all right so we're putting this mini split in coming through the wall here there's already a hole that was already here in this thing so we're coming through that it's going to be mounted out here on this roof i'm going to put some four by fours in there we already fought the wasps they have the wasps right there unfortunately nothing's going to be perfect i mean as you can see nothing is perfect so you just got to kind of got to make the best of what we got here you know i'm saying so it's not perfectly square things aren't perfectly straight i mean it's just unfortunately you got to use the equipment you just got to do what you got to work with yep yep chop up uh i wanted uh stranded wire so we're going extension cord so we'll have that we'll have to run a dedicated ground um that's for the head the head's not going to pull any amperage there's no rating plates on anything we have no instructions i'm going to go off of what we would normally do on with a um it's a bishy so right now what we're doing is getting the uh flaring tool which you know we had to pick up a cheap flaring tool because i uh asked what we were doing and we didn't know we were going to be doing this and so i didn't bring the flaring tool i'm not usually an installer so flaring tools out here right here i found the best we could get at one of the hardware stores it's not a great one it's probably going to leak but you know that's all i got to work with you know i stopped the auto zone checked out those that double flaring ones but like i said doing what we can what we got all right looks kind of cruddy that is not what i like but like i said i had been working at this for several days trying to get a list of what all i needed to bring it'll work matches up fairly decent i used a wire brush wheel to clean this up a little bit on the drill that's what we can do with what we got nylog's gonna make it all better all better we got our good extension cord there to power this head we're looking good figured the line set make a great ground well we'll run a dedicated ground look at that i got jenner junk jenner junk generator i think i'll have a canary i hope this personal monitors aren't worth it no more canary's cheaper and keeps you company he's just going to a little hole a little bit and come right back out so they did i wonder where the thing fell on them but this is a section this right here is just showing what this tour is this tour is very dark it is cool it is going to be bumpy this being on an actual rail system it is going to beat and bang jerk and pull a little bit if you want to take any pictures or videos you'll be free to do so the only thing that i ask is that you do not turn a flashlight on and please hold on to your phones and cameras okay do i have any questions before we get started we're changing how the mining is being done how many feet separates the two the one above us is about a hundred feet the one above it is about a thousand feet how much coal is still left in this mountain at least uh well just this mine alone at least 120 million times when you do a room and pillar operation you can only mine out up to 50 percent this is what we're working with and uh we're just trying to get this thing to come out down the wall and come across and down to there i don't know if the line hide is going to be that big of a deal that we don't have it because like i said we did not know this was going to be done so far we kind of got it pieced in here going across as tight as possible he's getting a line going across this under normal standards would not be how i would do it but i don't know how else you're going to do it normally you would come with materials and everything and just not the case so take it easy guys on the comments down below that i'm a hack or whatever because i almost don't want to show this because you got to remember what we're here we're just here to help where we can help there's always somebody watching you look at that she's watching me so i don't know if that's the model number there there's nothing no data tags i don't know if the people that gave us away took them off thinking they're being slick so that somebody wouldn't sell it or what that's pretty shady just trying to make some progress here we got the line set ran i'm not an installer guys we're just trying to make the best we can of it that's something you've probably heard a thousand times so far so it uh we don't even know if this thing runs that's what's so bad we have no idea if it runs and whoever the shifter was that decided to remove the name tag on this thing the data plate because i've completely taken the part i had to go inside and look at the at the compressor to find out how many btu's it was that's how bad it is i don't see anything in here and like i said that right there's the only thing it's on it and i searched that i can't find nothing on it i'm not sure what to do about it so we're just gonna pull back on it throw some refrigerant in it shot just this really sucks because you because you know that uh these guys were a hack that did this anybody that puts that crap on a brass cap's an idiot pulling down on this thing a few times and i've been fouling it off seeing where we're at and it comes up but eventually slows down at about you know 2000 area so we're just gonna keep on letting this thing run hopefully we'll get as much moisture out as we can we usually uh today's the day it's our last day and we actually stopped it in noon so we're still going uh we went did a mine ride in a real cold mine and came right back and uh trying to knock this thing out don't even know if this thing runs it was never vowed off some people just donate stuff that you know i don't know i'd almost be embarrassed to give somebody something that don't work or if you don't know it works but i guess that's how people are i guess i don't know you would think that if it was a professional company they would have cranked it in and the refrigerant charge would be in it for it to not have any charge in it and they um found it off i mean you just it's just everything about the screams no and i wasn't gonna do it um like i said the window unit there's what they have in that room now it doesn't do it it's such a distance away but hopefully this this works out for me to be able to heat the room too because like i said this is a heat pump so we're just gonna wrap this thing up here on this particular one and head on to suffer here and let this thing run and see what we can hit and i'll probably just let this thing run while we're gone putting a roof on this so keep the bears out of it too dark take the trash there now you gotta install a light there to put the cars well just like the day we came the day will leave so we've got everything loaded back up time for it all to start going back out into the truck and get loaded up and head on back it's right around 6 30 i'll leave by no later than eight we're eating at 7 30 and we're gonna head straight back we're all gassed up ready to go so let's go ahead and get this thing loaded up truck's a little bit of a mess gotta clean some of this crud out didn't need any of these motors so they're all gonna go back to the shop so we're gonna go down here and double check this house kind of shifts on the progress we just did just needs a little lipstick yet on her but it's good enough to keep the rain off your back do they even they have this locked up you know somebody somebody always forgets a window though got all the baseboard trim in there a lot of painting a lot of stuff got done and here's the house we were staying in and my lg unit is right there hopefully it runs you can see where the line set comes through there i think denny's up there i see denny is that denny or that woman she's talking to the birds or something yeah that's it right there but that's the porch of solomon that was a medical hospital for the coal miners built in 1920 something and the back the side of the porch but you can see this normal right here just have a 10-foot wall and up you go hold up i'll take a picture we're never going down there fortunately the water's lying shut off we're all out here they got furnace in here it's already ducked up yeah it's an american standard insulated duck all-flex looks like it may have been gutted already electrical box i don't know if that's even used anymore there's the water lines here's the pooper line there's the new pooper line so yep they had a boiler heat all right well that's enough of that i'm good that's an old coal this here's for to get down in there but the shoot is over here yeah yep all right so like i said we did what we could do with this thing i'm gonna leave this next turkey a note get it marked it's 410a date it's evacuated in charge and i was here so anyhow guys that's gonna wrap this one up we're ready to roll so that'll be the end of the trip other than the trip going back mission accomplished as best as we could with what we had to work with until next time guys thanks for watching be sure to give back more than you take and until next time we'll catch you guys on the next one