Yellow Jacket 60667 Refrigerant Recovery Pliers Test

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I finally made good on getting a new HVAC/R tool, the Yellow Jacket 60667 refrigerant recovery pliers. I had wanted one of these for a while. Let's test them out and see what happens. Actually, let's make it twice as nice! (This was two videos glued together after expertly cutting off the ending of one.)
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What I meant to say when discussing the Anker power station and didn't at first: to my great surprise, it would not start the recovery machine. It'd try, barely turn it over and then cut out on overload. Given that I have used it to start and run other “difficult” loads, I was surprised. (I also said "saddle valve" when I meant Bullet (probably a trademark) piercing valve.)
At times it looks like the Candyham's image stabilization wasn't really doing its thing, and I don't know why. It was turned on...

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@eleven99 8 ай бұрын

2 videos in one week? You're sure spoiling us!

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

Don't get used to it or anything. 😛

@normneufeld9688 4 ай бұрын

Thanks good intro to the recovery pliers. After doing thousands of refrigerant recoveries, I’ll make a few comments. They are a good tool and work well. Before clamping on, I adjust the plier with the adjustable screw/bolt so that the needle doesn’t bottom out in the jaw. They do not work well on anything smaller than 3/8 inch tubing. Only use them on copper or aluminum…a steel line will damage the piercing needle. If refrigerant is leaking past the gasket, quickly tighten the screw to attempt a better seal. Leaking refrigerant freezes the rubber gasket and it will crack if clamped tighter while frozen. Gaskets and replacement tips are available. There is another brand that uses a similar vise grip style but a much smaller tip and different gasket. It works well on 1/4 inch tubing. I use the pliers for recovery and repairs to access a closed system, install a small access stem, do the repair and solder the hole shut. Thanks again!

@circletech7745 8 ай бұрын

Uxwbill is my favorite small KZbinr. You remind me a lot of how KZbin used to be back in the day. Just a bunch of random vlogs from your life.

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

KZbin remains something I do solely for fun. I don't consider this video to be a vlog, though.

@jamesdye4603 8 ай бұрын

I think you would make a fantastic teacher, which is basically what you do in many of your videos.

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Had it not been for the whole Canvas LMS/HTML thing and that I'd be pulling some pretty late nights (probably not home much before 10 PM), I might have gone for it. Of course, who knows what the future might hold?

@bburris123 8 ай бұрын

I have greatly missed the ever-cheerful and informative content created by UXWBILL! I have been a fan of his and subscriber now for 13.5 years (I just checked). All around good guy! Best wishes from Arkansas, sir!

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching over all of those years. KZbin has always been something I do for fun, so I wouldn't want it to turn into a job of its own.

@nlaumeyer 8 ай бұрын

Amazing! Always enjoy your videos

@diegolopez19 5 ай бұрын

Anyone out there ding this, carry some channel locks and if you happen to squeeze and you penetrate but not tight enough, grab your channel locks and twist the pliers bottom tight so the nose on the recovery pliers tighten up. Y’all welcomed 🙏🏽

@erp65 8 ай бұрын

Coolest video I've seen all week.

@maplemiyazaki 8 ай бұрын

look man, i don't know how the hell i ended up here but i enjoyed the video! lol

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

The Algorithm shall not be questioned.

@KLM817 8 ай бұрын

Hi Bill. I wish they would make window a/c's last for more than a few years. The old ones were noisy but they lasted 10 plus years. I have two units, both less than 3 years old, on one them the rubber mounts for the compressor are completely dry rotted to the point where the compressor rattles so bad and shakes the entire unit and will keep you awake at night. The other one the compressor is stuck on no matter what the setting it's on and even if you turn the power off at the switch the compressor still runs the only way to shut it off is to unplug the unit. I think it's sad these two units are pretty much scrap at this point after only being 3 years old.

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

I haven't really noticed a decline in the reliability of newer window air conditioners. I would say that I don't think their electronic thermostats are even remotely accurate, but that's about it for complaints. Rubber compressor mounts can be replaced. They are not expensive. The hardest part would be getting the unit out of the window and taking the cover off. The second one sounds like a classic case of welded relay contacts -- this could also be fixed. Just remember that working on electrically operated devices can be hazardous.

@KLM817 8 ай бұрын

@@uxwbill Thanks for the reply Bill. I will for sure look into replacing the compressor mounts which I didn't know was possible on these units. I would love to get this unit running again since it was the more expensive of the two.

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

@@KLM817 When you go to replace the compressor mounts, do just one at a time, so as to avoid flexing the attached lines too much.

@KLM817 8 ай бұрын

@@uxwbill Thanks for the advice and I will for sure do that. It looks like a pretty straight forward job to do.

@ashleycox432 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for these interesting videos. Out of curiosity what happens to the recovered refrigerant? I looked this up after your last video on the subject and I've read a lot of conflicting information online. I'm in the UK so our rules and regulationss will be different but it's interesting to me nonetheless how things are reused and / or safely disposed of.

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

A US-based perspective is all I can offer here -- so things could well differ. If recovered refrigerant is considered "clean" (not blended with any other type of refrigerant, possibly not removed from a system where a burnout took place), companies exist that will buy it. From there, the refrigerant may be cleaned and filtered, after which it is sold as used refrigerant. For certain refrigerant types that are no longer made, this secondhand refrigerant is all that may be available. For refrigerant that is contaminated, those same companies will destroy it through various means, as that is the only thing that can be done.

@ashleycox432 8 ай бұрын

@@uxwbill Interesting, thanks!

@jefferyb304 8 ай бұрын

As an end-of-the-line video, you should pressurize the system to see if you could blow that plug out of the compressor... LOL.

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

It is likely to be partially activated by thermal means and not just pressure. In any case, I almost certainly don't have anything that would "safely" pressurize something to that level, and both of these items are gone now.

@thelazyfishkeeper2730 8 ай бұрын

hello again. saw yellow jacket, and thought, bill vs the insect world. i would pay a dollar to see that. but it was bill the hvac guy. so is this a tool for a pro or more geared towards a scrapper. as a side note do you still tinker with vintage computers?

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

No, there are certain things that are an instant NOPE, and yellow jackets are one of them. Computers and IT are my day job (as the video says 🙂), so while I still have lots of computer stuff and work with it, I don't often want to do even more of it when I get home. Still, stay tuned. There will be more sometime. I'd say this tool is geared more toward professionals. All the scrappers I've ever known of just cut the lines and that's that.

@rrcoster 8 ай бұрын

Nice see some new videos from uxwbill

@misterrocks3035 8 ай бұрын

Refrigerant boiling out of the oil reminded me - can one change the oil in a sealed refrigeration system easily, or is the sealed nature of the system able to prevent degradation of the lubricant for "the life" of the equipment?

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

It can be done, though I don't know of any easy way. One might unsweat the lines from the compressor, remove it and drain the oil out through the openings where the lines were connected. To my knowledge, so long as it doesn't take on moisture (as some oils will), the oil in a sealed refrigeration system is good for its entire lifetime.

@redneckbryon 8 ай бұрын

Definitely miss the classic UXWBill smoke test videos. If memory serves me correctly, your family home has Central Air, but you guys still use window shakers??

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

As with many homes, especially those not originally air conditioned, the upstairs needs a little help.

@mitm19 8 ай бұрын

If you mentioned it in the video I missed it, but I'm assuming both of those appliances had the same type of refrigerant? Is it acceptable to mix them together in the same recovery tank since they are just going to be recycled if they are different?

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

Both used R-22. You can mix recovered refrigerants, but if you do, they have no value because the result can only be destroyed. I don't mix them.

@mydogpeaches1 8 ай бұрын

i have always enjoyed your informative videos as well as your excellent product reviews as it’s difficult these days that find honest reviews i do have a equipment question? what would be your recommendation for good quality refrigerant hoses and adapter fittings i personally do work in the automotive industry and don’t have a whole lot of personal equipment besides a scale a decent set of gages an a decent vacuum pump but i would love to invest into a recovery machine right now i just have my buddy who is a manager at a local jiffy lube recovery the refrigerant charge if necessary for what ever im working on so i am currently looking for good quality replacement hoses and adapters for the new 1234yf anyway i would love to hear your thoughts and thanks for your time 😊

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

I don't have a lot of experience with different refrigeration hose brands. The hoses I use have come from a few different places. I have the hoses that were supplied with my Testo and Imperial/Stride gauge sets, a few other hoses from a Harbor Freight automotive AC service gauge set and a few random "soft magic" branded hoses that mainly see use with nitrogen. Any hoses from a reputable manufacturer ought to be fine. My R-134 automotive system adapters are the ones that also came with the previously mentioned Harbor Freight manifold gauge set. Despite the source, they've never let me down...but if you're doing a lot of automotive work, you probably do want something better. I only use them occasionally. I have yet to work on anything using HFO-1234, so I don't yet have any adapters or whatnot for that. I don't know how popular the Inficon Vortex recovery machine I have is. They were what we had in my class after the old and tired Amprobe branded machines were replaced. (Amusingly, those old machines sounded like and turned out to have a two-speed washing machine motor in them!) I've yet to see anyone else using the Inficon machine on KZbin. I've been perfectly happy with it, though.

@philsbbs 8 ай бұрын

did you get much for scrap

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

No. I gave them to a local scrap collector. I don't care about the money. I just wanted these gone.

@Jon-hx7pe 8 ай бұрын

what killed that window unit if it had original charge?

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

Fan motor failure. I've fought with enough of them in window units over the years. With plenty of other good units to use, I wasn't about to fight with this one.

@Jon-hx7pe 8 ай бұрын

@@uxwbill i've seen vids of people changing the bearings on those motors - i guess if windings are burned the motor is shot.

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

@@Jon-hx7pe The effort involved in getting that motor out of there wouldn't have been remotely worth it. I'm sure it was installed before either coil was in place, and that's likely the only way it would have ever come out again. Electrically, it was fine. This was a cheap room air conditioner and I have no shortage of spares. I've serviced those little motors in the past, when it was the only option or the fastest path to some cool air.

@vwestlife 8 ай бұрын

It took my a while to get why they named it Yellow Jacket when it's not even yellow.

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

I"m totally guessing at this, and have two thoughts: 1. The name of the company's founder... 2 ...or the "stinger" built into the pliers that punctures the tubing. I am probably wrong.

@IfYouLikeGoodIdeas 8 ай бұрын

Seeing as Internet Twelve-Year-Olds don't deserve the satisfaction of the first comment, here's a comment for you :P

@bakonfreek 8 ай бұрын

Alright, so, I'm gonna rip dad's old HVAC system out and put a new one in (the compressor shit the bed and this old thing is a R-22 system so it would probably make more sense to just replace it all and save about 15 grand given what we're installing, even considering the cost of the new system). I'm putting this on the bill of materials, that just looks nifty as all hell! I might also be able to recover some of the cost of the new system by selling off that R-22 since that stuff is not getting any easier to come by 🤣 (probably not actually, but hey, world's a big place, strange things can happen). Also, regarding the CandyHam's stabilizer, my Sony HDR-XR550 (from about the same era as that there pistolham ya have which is why I mention it) has the same trouble for some reason, but only sometimes. It's odd because my XR500 has excellent stabilization, but the XR550 just, the stabilizer sucks sometimes for some reason. My CX760 has that fancy balanced image stabilizer, but I don't use that thing since the zoom switch has input lag (like when you're playing an old video game on a HDTV and you hit a button on the controller, but it takes something like 3/4 of a second for the image on the screen to reflect your button press because the TV is applying a ton of image processing to the video signal before displaying it).

@windowsuser321 8 ай бұрын

So, I committed a mortal sin, and I made this comment before I watched the video... However, I know you did a career switch from computers -> HVAC. Are you happy with that switch? Did you keep with that switch (I.E., have you gone back at all?), and have you enjoyed it more than you did with computers? Sorry for the clumsy wording, I am pretty tired right now. Normally I'm pretty good at Englishing. ;)

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

It's kind of a long story, and I too am very tired right now. Too tired to condense it down or type it in. Stay tuned. For now, as the video says, "I work in IT".

@twocvbloke 8 ай бұрын

Round these parts, the local scrap wombles just cut the pipes, hammer the compressors off, and leave behind the majority of whatever refrigeration device they liberated them from, only interested in the copper pipes & wiring, often leaving a mess of expanded foam from the insulation in the fridges & freezers they broke apart in peoples' yerds... :\

@uxwbill 8 ай бұрын

That's pretty much what happens here, although I have yet to see them actually tear apart a refrigeration appliance and take only parts of. The whole thing will disappear, but when it comes time to get rid of the refrigerant, they just cut the lines. The scrap collector I gave these units to said his recycler of choice does not care or check for proper refrigerant recovery methods.