Drain CHILLER Start BOILERS & Save INDUSTRIAL COOLER In 1 Day!

[@danfinch3963]

Hey, we appreciate the lengths you'll go to bring us a quality video along with the support for American products....things built during a time when we cared. And the accent helps with the entertainment, lol.

[@HVACRSurvival]

Thank you!

[@sherwinalvarez7365]

Hey Rick. 👋🏾 Wasn't TI-88 a myth, or it was so bad they scrapped the idea. Yeah, my closeted need come out every now and again. Yeah, man, that cutter is no joke. I hope they give you a company card for all that equipment you have. My company replaces what you break except for wireless and digital guages. Hope they pay you well. I don't know how you learned all that stuff. You are amazing for sharing with us. I thank you.

[@HVACRSurvival]

This is the only place where they actual give us money towards tools every year. Pay is top for my area. Glad you like the videos, thanks for watching them.

[@ZRock7771]

Ran the full gambit in one day, chillers to boilers to racks lol. Good stuff as always.

[@HVACRSurvival]

Thanks 👍

[@Ted_E_Bear]

Rick, Really good jobs that you worked on ! Love your work ethic !

[@HVACRSurvival]

Much appreciated Teddy 🫡

[@jasonjohnsonHVAC]

That baby chiller was cute. Weil McClain ultra with that aluminum heat exchanger always leak. The acidic condensate eats those HXers. I do like how they sell a kit with all the gaskets. That heat exchanger cleaning tool is cool, too. When I need to add oil and do a vacuum....I pull the oil in while the vacuum pump is running, which makes it easier. Another great video full of real-world repairs....especially on a reefer unit with big dollar amounts of food that is time sensitive to keep cool. Great job Rick.

[@watermanone7567]

Excellent work, l am one of the old guys. I had to change a Trane compressor on a computer room for an electric utility company on Christmas eve. The computer was not only used for Edison billing but many of the local towns sent their property taxes out on that computer, (the old punch card type system) It was about 20F outside snowing lightly and I was on a mezzanine about 25 feet in the air with no help. Hard to get the torch hot enough to do the silver soldering. Forget nitrogen, hardly ever used it in those days. Came back a few days later and changed the filter dryer and suction dryers. Never had any issues not using nitrogen in those days. I disliked those type of pressure jobs that had to be done ASAP. Thanks for a great video.

[@HVACRSurvival]

I have had those days and nights. I remember getting stuck on a mall roof and it was cold like that. I was so frozen to the bone that when I got home I stayed in the shower for probably 40mins and still felt like I was freezing.

[@joshpearson1693]

@@HVACRSurvivalI think I would have jumped a unit out and took the supply air panel off until someone came back.

[@EverythingHVACR]

Interesting stuff as usual, thanks for taking us along, Rick!

[@HVACRSurvival]

Thanks Steve!

[@tschuuuls486]

Replace it all with a air to water variable capacity heat pump. The new defacto standard here in Europe, because waterborne heating (gas/oil) was the standard. Ironically our heating installers are usually not qualified to work on AC units and therefore try to keep the old waterborne systems working. Keeping the old piping, replace critical radiators and pipe the extremely oversized heatpump in with a parallel storage tank. Instead of installing Minisplits (or VRV in bigger buildings).

[@jake-ps3bq]

I went to school in the early 70's when 12 and 22 were king. The only time we flush the lines was for acid in them. So it is all new to me but I am retired.

[@HVACRSurvival]

CFC refrigerants had natural mineral oil and it didn’t matter if there was that much carbon inside the piping but with the invention of POE oil, which is a synthetic oil. It tends to scrub the inside of the pipe and pull that carbon back to the metering devices and tends to plug them up.

[@marknaravas318]

Just every ti e I watch you, I learn something new. That was a whole lotta mess in that 4 boiler setup

[@HVACRSurvival]

😂👍👍

[@therandomchannel6103]

Love a good dual temp building

[@lqueryvg666]

"TI-88" - LOL - omg - too funny.....That controller you were looking at reminded me of those old Coleco handheld games......

[@lqueryvg666]

Sounded like you "snorted" some burning freon....AND.....yes - I hated dealing with 480.....when I was really young, I remember someone telling me to just cross all 3 legs with my screwdriver to witness the "power".......boy that 480 blew my screwdriver apart in multiple pieces and the breakers didn't even feel it.....kept on going......LOL.....

[@HVACRSurvival]

Yep I got hit with the burnt refer

[@terryh8421]

Thanks for posting, always interesting content.

[@HVACRSurvival]

Thanks Terry!

[@shawnhuk]

“Blow hot water right into your face”…. Haha! Ohhhhhh man…. 😮

[@DelticEngine]

That was a Bohn-headed idea putting it against the back wall like that.

[@sherwinalvarez7365]

@@DelticEngine definitely

[@HVACRSurvival]

I’ll definitely not be getting a sponsorship from Bonn anytime soon.

[@bensreferigeration]

Nice repair! Love the rosebud.

[@HVACRSurvival]

Thanks!

[@SusanMackey-p5e]

Nice job as always Rick! What a mess when that oil blows all over no way to keep anything clean.

[@HVACRSurvival]

You got that right!

[@ssslimey]

Gives me.. chills

[@fshn76]

Great Video Rick, I don’t know they made chillers that small, looked like the size of a 10 package unit. Thanks for the video.

[@HVACRSurvival]

Thanks for watching!

[@stevencossaboon3237]

Great job Rick.

[@helmsajr]

Nice work Rick has always.

[@johnwalker890]

Good job Rick........

[@williamholley1232]

Great videos

[@HVACRSurvival]

Glad you like them! Thank you

[@DFI429]

Tacking one stick to the next.. learned something new today! ;)

[@HVACRSurvival]

Perfect! 🤫

[@sterlingarcher46]

Boy that 2nd job should have been a full day job in and of itself! Bloody good job on the brazing , I'm still waiting to get my hands on a rosebud tip , they have us brazing this type of piping with a bloody 400 tip , and when I tell 'em it's ridiculous they look at me like I'm from another planet 😂

[@HVACRSurvival]

Dude I still don’t understand how you guys don’t get any good tools.

[@sterlingarcher46]

@@HVACRSurvival Ah we do get some to be fair , but the supply houses are bs and they don't bother bringing in the good stuff ...For example I still remember a few years ago you could get SOME Yellow Jacket stuff , now for some reason it's very hard to find .

[@HVACRSurvival]

Interesting. I’ve only been to Canada before you needed a pass port. I’ve never been out of the USA. It would be interesting to see other places but the language barrier would suck

[@joeshearer1247]

Not that I’m sure you didn’t already think of it- If you can even tape over the ends with some foil tape of that big copper line it can’t pull in as much oxygen and you could even just tape a hose to it and purge the oxygen out

[@HVACRSurvival]

I was being lazy plus I was in a hurry. But I have done that on smaller stuff but that was 2 5/8” I believe.

[@FPHA697]

Great job brother

[@HVACRSurvival]

Thanks 👍

[@DelticEngine]

Very interesting and informative video. Beautiful brazing! Do you have any brazing tutorial videos? There were great tips in this video.

[@HVACRSurvival]

No, I try to do some little pointers when I do the videos just because I feel I’ve got it down pretty decent. I’m a big believer and hitting it hot and getting off quickly as possible and definitely making sure it’s clean.

[@halverde6373]

Feel for you, man. Thank God I retired from those hell-holes 20 years ago. Note* All you can do is fight chaos as it happens in front of you at the time. Chaos always eventually wins. A what-is. Give it absolute hell in the meantime .

[@HVACRSurvival]

Thanks man! I do what I can do

[@jonnymac31]

Sweet deal

[@randomrefrigeration4564]

The #1 fan can’t be on a cycle switch The fan above the header has to run to prevent leaks on the intermediate header Trust me I work on those HeatCraft units every day for years I have also had many leaks for refrigerant lines rubbing out on panels and leaks of the headers due to people cycling fan 1 Thanks Mr Rick

[@HVACRSurvival]

I agree. First fan closest to the header is to stay on. Or at least last to turn off.

[@halverde6373]

Use mechanic gloves! So you can't get blamed if you touch it! 🤣🤣🤣

[@halverde6373]

Use Stay bright solder.

[@JP-sd2cw]

Can i get a link for that pipe cutter?

[@HVACRSurvival]

Sure. amzn.to/3C2syop

[@BrickTop900]

@@HVACRSurvivalthese are awesome! Never seen them here. Another trick in tight spaces is exhaust/tailpipe pipe cutters

[@HVACRSurvival]

I’ve heard of using those. Saw is fine if you get the shavings out. But it’s not always easy with oil in the pipe

[@shine-cg9uf]

💪🇺🇸👍❄️

[@Djcarp83]

Rick bub please inform me why we don’t want a ball valve on a expansion tank

[@HVACRSurvival]

If somebody ball valves that sucker off, you’re not gonna have an expansion tank and it’s gonna dump the water out all over the floor when it blows the pop off.

[@throttlebottle5906]

@@HVACRSurvival and if the relief valve fails, something else will become a relief valve(BOOM) in a catastrophic and deadly manner.

[@lnk4328]

It is never a good idea to have an exhaust fan in a boiler room. Always a chance of putting the room in a negative, especially if some genius covers the fresh air inlet because they don’t want a freeze up.

[@HVACRSurvival]

Exactly 👍

[@throttlebottle5906]

they probably block the intake and run the exhaust fan.... 🤣🤣

[@halverde6373]

I'd exclaim Kill me now!

[@halverde6373]

Jesus H. Christ on that system!

[@halverde6373]

RUN AWAY!