Pooky Pooky a nipple. There is nothing dirty or reprehensible about that right. So, in this video we're talking about five words that sound terrible, but aren't that bad in HVAC our, I guess. First off.

If you don't know what H VCR is that's heating ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration? Now some of these words actually apply to other trades like plumbing and general construction as well. The number five on the top five worst sounding phrases, bits of jargon in HVAC number. Five is Pooky Pooky. When I first heard it.

I thought it was definitely a dirty word, because we do not use that term in Florida, but it's just a name for mastic or duct sealant. In Florida we call it mastic. Technically, it's duct sealant, it's what or duct butter is a term that some people use is the stuff you smear on the joints in order to seal the joint, sometimes you'll use it. In addition to like a fibrous, embedment tape, we often call that fab in Florida.

It's like a white mass, almost like if you've ever seen, mesh drywall tape, sort of like that that we embed and then we used the sealant on top of that or we call it mastic in Florida. But some people call it Pookie seems to be a Western thing. There was actually a brand of duct sealant called Pookie for a while and now there's a tool, that's designed to take screws that have been sealed over with mastic to remove them, and that is called Pookie Buster by Midwest, actually really good tool. I have a couple of them, so the phrase Pookie lives on, even though I've completely banned it from kalos number four on the list - and this is another term I don't use, but some people call refrigeration, reefer such as reefer tex.

So if you're, a refrigeration, technical, you're, a reefer tech and some people call a refrigerant leak, detector, a reefer sniffer and I imagine reefer - isn't spelled REE fer. It's actually spelled re fer, because that could mean something different if it was two E's, but that's just a refrigerant leak detector. Now either a stationary leak detector like is used often in like grocery store applications or the mobile leak detectors like the good old H. 10.

Pro or H, 10 G that I've used for so many years from Bacharach field piece also makes some really great ones. Testo makes good leak detector as well. There's a lot of good leak detectors out there, but that's often called a, and it's called that because it actually draws in a sample it tests a sample of air for refrigerant in it. But reefers never sounds like it might mean something else again, not a.

You word that I use number three on our list is a word that almost everybody uses in the trade at one time or another, and that word is a nipple and that one's a bit on the nose - and it probably is named what it's named. Because of what it looks like, but it's really generally a male to male, fitting or stub has male to male connections on it, but it can just be a stub with a male threaded connection. And yes, male and female fittings are exactly what they sound like from the conversation that you had with your parents, hopefully about the birds and the bees, which I still don't get. What that has to do with person bees, because so the term nipple is often used for brass, copper, steel, other metal, fittings that have a segment of pipe or tubing and then a male threaded connection, at least on one end, but often they'll call it a nipple When it has male threaded connections on both ends the next one that I have just recently been made aware of number two on our list of the worst sounding pieces of jargon in HPC are, I was made aware of by Kevin compass, and I had heard the Term before, but I really had no idea what it was, so I never really thought about it, but he was talking about hoarfrost within a freezer case hoarfrost, and I asked him how it was spelled.

He didn't know it is not spelled the way you might think it has actually spelled HOA our process. I'm not really sure exactly what that HOA our means, but hoarfrost specifically, is that crystalline frost that you'll see you know maybe on a fence, maybe on the trees. Up north, where you have it almost looks like snow, but it's actually frost, it's very crystalline and shiny. It's actually very beautiful frost.

If you see it in Evergreen forest, something like that, but that it's called hoarfrost. So when you see that frost that crystalline frost build up within a case, it is appropriate to call it hoar frost and there is nothing dirty or reprehensible about that and number one on our list is the caulk or the gas caulk, and I definitely feel dirty Even saying that, but a gas caulk is simply a common type of shutoff valve that you will see it's generally a ball type valve, and so we call a ball valve. That's used to shut off gas, it's called a gas caulk and I imagine you could call any type of a ball valve of that same sort like, but gasps is what I typically hear, and it is the real name for it, and it is appropriate to use That, although I would be careful with using it around mixed company, so though I don't suggest you a saying these words always number one gas, gas, shutoff valve hoarfrost, crystalline frost that you see outside sometimes, but you can also see in refrigeration applications. A nipple is a male threaded.

Connector, a reefer sniffer is a refrigerant leak. Detector and pookie is duck sealant or mastic. So there you have it. Maybe you'll learn something you probably didn't, but that is my top 5 list.

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