Ah, it's time to chill out and get ready for a mediocre q, a live stream if you're old enough grab yourself your favorite adult beverage and if you're not stick with apple juice, put your feet up and relax. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the chat and now, let's queue up the intro music yo. What is up everybody? How are you guys doing this evening, so i just posted a message in the chat tonight and, if uh towards the middle. Oh clint, thank you so very much for that super chat man.

That is awesome. I'm much appreciative of that um. If we have equal views and equal thumbs up presses tonight, then i got some cool stuff i'll give away. Um i've had this uh, this field piece tool bag thing sitting over here i have some other field piece, swag, a hat like a pullover thing and i'll probably do some of my hats too.

Um we'll give them away, probably in the middle more towards the end of the show. So as long as you guys keep the thumbs up the likes or whatever and the views somewhat equal, then we'll do that towards the end of the show so um. Hopefully, you guys are doing well out there. Life is uh pretty crazy over here.

For me right now, we've been super stressful and super busy at work, and it's been kind of nuts man. I found myself uh crazy just all last week and then all this weekend it just seemed like i had so many difficult service calls. Frustrating service calls and uh seemed like i was working all weekend. It probably didn't help that my family was gone.

My family had gone away on vacation for the weekend and uh. Sorry about that. My uh, my webcam, went to a new place and i realized that if i touch my monitor it shakes um so yeah, my family, my wife and my kids had uh gone away for the weekend. So they've been gone for like the last four days, so that probably didn't help with me being all stressed out and everything like that and not having anybody to come home to, but oh well, it's life.

You know i usually encourage them to do that during the summer. You know go away for a week or something like that, just especially during my busy time, because i'm usually not home. You know it sucks for me, but it's good for them, because then they at least get to enjoy their summer somewhat, and i don't know about you guys, but you know where i'm at summertime keeps getting shorter and shorter. For my kids um.

I think they go back to school in like a few weeks like two weeks or something like that, it's nuts, so you know, whereas when i was a kid it's funny because that's starting to get like you know, i, i guess i'm old to my kids and Stuff right, i'm 38, but um. You know we went back in september. You know my kids go back at the beginning of august. Now that's crazy! How that works.

You know but hey whatever you know so, but yeah. It was definitely pretty stressful lots of craziness going on so uh. You know i'm just trying to stay alive, but sunday was crazy because i didn't get any service calls on sunday. But i found myself so stressed, and so anxious that i was gon na get a service call that i was literally checking my phone every few minutes and uh just waiting for a service call.

You know like i i just i felt like i needed to be doing something. It was weird. It was just a weird feeling, almost like a ptsd thing, or something like that. Just you know just messing with my head, but yeah whatever we live, you know we'll get over it and we'll move on, but i hope you guys are all doing well um.

You know i'm thankful, you know, as opposed to last summer, when we were dead. You know, because of all the craziness, so at least we got the work now you know it's just trying to keep up with it all now so kind of nuts. So as usual, guys um uh questions put them in the chat, put them in caps, lock. Okay, that way, i know to uh.

I can recognize them easier if you guys don't put them in caps. Lock. Caps lock is all capital letters okay, but put them in caps lock. That way, i can try to get to them, understand something um.

You know, if i don't get your question, you can keep reposting it, but sometimes i don't get to them. Okay, it just it is what it is. So you can feel free to send me an email to hvacr videos gmail.com if uh. If i missed your question and i'll try to get to it - and i just realized right now that before this live stream, i was going through all the youtube chat trying to find topics, and i never went through the emails so yeah.

I guess we'll have to save that for the next live stream, and these live streams are getting harder and harder to do too with work. It's been nuts man, it's just been a crazy summer. You know it is what it is so um. Where was i the last two mondays i was working, i was literally working.

It's it's been crazy, just lots and lots of service calls. You know um yeah, it's just been nuts just trying to keep up with all the craziness, and it is what it is. So a couple things i want to talk about right off the bat i want to knock something out. I've been trying to help spoil them, promote their uh, jose rivera.

Thank you. So very much for that super chat. You guys are amazing. It's very humbling to get these.

Thank you. I know, that's your guys's hard-earned money and i know that you guys are helping to support the channel, but it's still very humbling and i'm so thankful for that. Okay, so thank you very much um. So i've been trying to help spoiler, promote their zoom, lock max promotion.

They have going on right now they really haven't been getting a lot of entries so guys, if you guys, post a picture of the zoom lock max tool of the zoom lock max fittings in use in your van just anything on your social media, with the zoom Lock max tool, you guys will win some cool swag and one of the things is going to be a little leatherman tool that spoiling has given away it's as easy as that. Okay, all you have to do is tag sporlin with the hashtag teamzoomlock. That's it. Okay! Uh facebook instagram twitter linkedin any of those just take a picture of any of the zoom lock max products.

The zoom lock max tool. The zoom lock max jaws, okay and tag spoiler in it post it on your social media, put hashtag team, zoom lock and you guys will win some spoil and swag and you will win uh a little uh a leatherman tool. So definitely do that. Okay, the 98 deville.

Thank you so very much. I really apprec you guys are so crazy. Okay, thank you, um. I have a comment pinned right there.

If we have equal thumbs up and equal views on this video about halfway through ish, something like that or towards the end i'll, do a cool, giveaway, okay, i'll, keep trying to announce that so um had a couple videos since the last live streams. Okay, i actually had four videos since the last live stream. It's been crazy, you know so it's been uh they've been some fun videos um some frustrating videos, all right, uh one of them was they said. The kitchen ac is a bit warm.

That was an interesting one, because uh the customer called and said they had several acs, not working and, of course everything was dirty, but that was the one if you guys didn't watch it where we had a leak in the condenser, and i had to do an Autopsy on the condenser and cut the thing open, dissect it get to the refrigerant leak and repair it, and i think it turned out pretty well okay. But what i really wanted to talk about in that video - and i have it as a topic to talk about tonight too - was at the same time they had a couple things going on, and one of the things was they had a vfd. A variable frequency drive that was not working in one of their acs. Okay, the carrier package units have vfds installed on the newer ones.

Uh well, actually, they've already replaced the vfds with the uh fancy blue axial fan motor, but before that they had the vfds and we had a real high failure rate. Okay, i have some opinions on why those vfds were failing. I do not have any confirmation, but i mean you know the fact that they're installed in the mixed air cabinet, where you're getting you have high condensation. You have high heat in that area.

I don't think those vfds actually have it on some good knowledge that those vfds are not meant to be in that environment with really high humidity, and that can't help anything. So we've been having to replace a lot of vfds, but basically after the warranty is over, the customers haven't been wanting to replace those vfds, because the cost is just too high, so they've actually been having us put in contactors and replace the vfds with just a Contactor and for the longest time i was having a hard time, bypassing those vfds, because it was you know i wasn't really into i couldn't, or i didn't really dig far enough in to figure out how to properly install a contactor, but actually it was really easy. I was recently just working on one and i was staring at the unit and i don't know why i kept missing it, but they literally have a wire, labeled, 24 volt fan call or whatever it's something like that. It's it's obvious.

When you see it and it's the 24 volt signal going to the vfd, so all you got to do is unplug that that's your hot leg for your compress or your evaporator fan motor contactor and then just grab a comm and just jump off of another comment On one of the other contactors and your vfd is done easy replaced or bypassed whatever you want to do, it can be temporary or it can be permanent whatever you want to do so, it's a super easy bypass, um, not really something i'm going to show in A video, but it's it's pretty easy. You guys can figure that one out so um. The next video that i had was a late night. Walk-In cooler called that was a really fun one for me, and that was a very frustrating one too, because uh that video.

If you guys follow me on social media was the one where it took literally like 12 hours for me to upload for to edit and upload that video, and i was so frustrated. I just i have a hard time like i can't give up like you know, and it ruined my saturday night, because i was working on the video and then i didn't sleep all i was up until like five in the morning because i just couldn't give up. I have an issue with that, where i just can't stop. I just i get obsessed with things and i can't stop until it's fixed.

You know so, but i finally got it to upload, but that was a really cool one, because it was a compressor failure that had multiple problems. It was a compressor failure, a late night, compressor change, but then, when i got done with the compressor, we had a problem and it was you know you got to watch the video if you haven't okay, but it was really interesting. But i do want to say something so in that video. I made a comment that i was really intrigued by the failure of that compressor and i wanted to talk to my buddy trevor matthews, my buddy trevor matthews works for emerson or copeland, compressors uh he's based in canada, but he's one of the reps and he does A lot of training on their compressors and he's actually really active on social media, very active on facebook, linkedin and youtube and see that's something that i really appreciate about.

The manufacturer. Sporland does a great job of it too, they're very active on youtube, linkedin and facebook, and i really appreciate that from the manufacturers, because the manufacturers need to realize that people are searching for new education sources and it's not always uh. You know feasible for them to make it to a training class. So when these manufacturers people like trevor people like spoiling put their information on youtube, it's really cool because we can consume it 24 hours a day.

We can look at it at any given time. Okay, so in talking with my buddy trevor, i had him watch the video and spoiler alert trevor and i are actually going to work on a project together where we're going to do a little collaboration, video, where we're analyzing that compressor, okay and i'm not going to Tell you guys what it is, but this is the scroll assembly for that compressor. Okay - and there were some really weird round marks on there - and i was really intrigued by those - and i was like what are they - you know, did something get in the scroll assembly? Was it banging on that? The only thing i'm gon na say is no nothing got in the scroll assembly and it took two seconds for trevor to look at it and he knew exactly what that was, and it was really interesting. Another thing that i'm going to point out that i was asking trevor is this: is the floating seal on the top of that compressor, and i'm not going to tell you guys what, but it's kind of standing out right there.

You know if anybody can really look at it. There's a problem with this floating seal too, and i hadn't pulled this apart in my autopsy. I did not pull this off at the top of the compressor, but when i pulled it out, i saw it right away. I was like, oh that might explain why we did not have proper compression so trevor and i are gon na work on something together and uh.

We're definitely gon na be talking about it and we're gon na put out some videos, but i definitely want to plug trevor. If you guys haven't already, please do me a favor and go over to trevor's youtube channel, i'm gon na post a link in the chat right now, and i want you guys to subscribe to trevor's youtube channel and tell him that i sent you over there. Okay um same thing as usual, guys just like i was talking about spoiling. Do me a favor guys and go over to sporlen's youtube channel subscribe to sporland's youtube channel.

They do a great great job, lots of great information on there. I'm gon na post a link to it right now hold on and uh. Here we go, i will post a link to sporland's youtube channel and i want you guys to go subscribe to sporlan's youtube channel too, because again they have great content. Whoops there we go on there, so there's sporlan's link too.

So please go subscribe to both of those bear downs. Remember that a scroll compressor does not have a valve scroll compressor has a scroll plate, that's going to go back and forth, and it's going to compress the refrigerant so you're on the right track. But it's not a valve that was leaking by on that scroll, compressor. Nathaniel hedge, thank you so very much for that super chat.

That is amazing. I am very humbled by that. You are awesome. Thank you! So much um, let's see what else do we got in here? I'm looking at the chat right now, um and uh trevor and chris getting married.

That's pretty funny! I'm gon na have to do. I'm gon na have to do trevor's signature, um intro! If you guys follow trevor on his social media, he has a really signature intro that he does on every one of his videos and it's it's really catchy so i'll have to start doing that just to kind of represent trevor. So yeah he's a really cool dude. Really nice, it's funny too, because, like i messaged him, i think it was saturday i was like hey bro.

Do you want to work on a collaboration together and like immediately? He was like heck yeah, i do and then he called me he's like, and then we were talking on the phone. You know - and it was really cool really nice dude so - and we've also had trevor on the hvac overtime youtube channel too and uh it's funny, because we all got to talking with trevor on the? U, on the hvac overtime show and if you guys, haven't already you're living under a rock go subscribe to the hvac overtime youtube channel too uh joe uh. Do me a favor and post a link to the uh overtime channel in here that that'll help you from having to fumble around trying to find it but um yeah. We when we had trevor on the overtime show um it was.

We ran out of time like we were like all right. We got ta go and trevor's like dude uh. We didn't even talk about what i wanted to talk about like we. We totally went on for like an hour and 15 minutes or something like that and then just ran out of time, so we need to have trevor on the overtime show again too.

If you guys don't know what the overtime show is, the overtime show is my buddies. Adam joe and bill bill is curious. Hvac guy joe is hvac. North and adam is a team adam, but he doesn't really have any videos up on his youtube channel anymore, but you know we kind of all met through.

I don't know how we all met. I think we just started following each other or something like that, but anyways we all met and uh they were doing a show and then they asked me if i wanted to be on the show - and here we are like a year later or something like that. But we do a show friday evenings uh. It's a very uncensored show it's more of a bunch of guys just talking shop, making fun of each other and stuff.

So you probably don't want to watch it with your kids but grab a beer hang out with us and uh. You know just come check it out friday evenings about 605 pm pacific time. Okay, all right so um, let's see uh jay leroy lacy! Is it against the law in california to replace a vfd with a contactor okay? So that's a great question um. Obviously, if you're going to bypass something in a temporary basis or something like that, sometimes you got to do what you got to do.

There is a law that says that when a customer buys a new package unit depending on the size, typically 2, 000 cfms or more or 5 tons or bigger, you do have to have due to title 24 requirements. You do have to have certain energy efficiency things built into the ac and a two speed. Blower motor is one of the things now um what's happened, though, is they implement these rules? The manufacturer wasn't given very much time they had to build these units with these fancy devices. Uh vegas hvac, our guy.

Thank you so much for that super chat. That's my buddy uh chad, chad, that's his name! Uh almost positive! I hope that's chad. I know that's chad, yeah chad used to live local to me, but he moved out to vegas, i'm pretty sure, that's his name, but thank you so much for that. Super chat, bud um, but yeah.

So is it illegal to bypass a contactor? I don't think so. I don't know, though you know i mean i i imagine whenever i do it it's just on a temporary basis. You know so you know you got to do what you got to do so you know whatever um do, as i say, not as i do kind of a thing all right, all right. Let's see what else we got going on in here: um there's the overtime link in there, guys cool uh.

Look at my buddy scott in here, uh scott. I you know this is not the place for a pineapple party. Scott come on. No, i'm just kidding all right um, so the uh, the last video or no, then the next video that i had was it's just an ac.

How hard could it be? Oh, that was a frustrating one because it was. We went out there as usual. Ac was plugged up uh dirty, you know we cleaned up the unit and took us a while to do all that and then one of the compressors was extremely loud. We found a plugged up dryer, i decided to change the dryer, but then the new dryer plugged up.

Oh, my goodness, you know, and i was just like seriously. We were thinking we were closing up the service call and then we had to spend another two and a half hours recovering the gas again changing the dryer man. That was a frustrating call because you go through all this work and then you just have to do it all over again, but i wasn't playing games with that one. So i went a little bit crazy and i went and grabbed a massively oversized dryer.

Originally, it was a five cubic inch. When i went out there was an eight cubic inch. I changed it to a 16 cubic inch and then the 16 cubic inch plugged up. So then i installed a 30 cubic inch dryer.

I went nuts on that thing. Okay and then on top of the 30 cubic inch dryer, i went with a flare and i put ball valves on it just in case. We have to change the dryer again honestly, though, and the customer's replacing that unit, but we had to do something to get it operational so and then they had another dryer plugged up and a dirty uh. We still had a dirty condenser.

It was just a frustrating call and the control one of the compressors is grounded. That was a tricky one. Okay. Finally, we had yesterday's video, which you guys blew up.

Thank you so very much um. It was awesome. Uh, let's see samurai. Thank you so much for that super chat.

Man, i'm glad you just passed your epa. That is awesome um. That is really cool. It's amazing that these silly videos that i make can help you get acquainted, of course, they're not going to replace a proper education or anything like that, but i mean if they can help a new guy like samurai, get somewhat um acquainted with a package unit.

You know to where he could impress his boss. That's awesome. This is really cool, like it's so humbling to be able to do this and help you guys, but anyways back to my video from yesterday. You guys blew that video up.

That is one of my. As far as like the time frame, i mean that video has barely been up for a day and a half, and you guys the views on it are insane. So thank you guys so very much. It's amazing uh what you guys do when you watch those videos, it's it's really cool.

Okay, so thank you um, so that video was titled, damned tweakers part two. Actually, okay and i've been promising that video for a very long time about, let's see all the way back in march, i want to say in march i got a service call at one of my restaurants and they said their walk and freezer wasn't working. The video was called late, night, walk and freezer call. Okay and uh.

I went out there and tweakers had gotten in there all right. Let me let me phrase that correctly for people not in this country, that don't understand the term tweaker a tweaker. If you look it up in like urban dictionary or something like that, is a reference to people that are drug addicts, that'll go to any measures to get a new fix. Okay, so oftentimes we will call a tweaker someone who will go steal the copper from an air conditioning unit, so they can get their next fix or something like that.

Okay, so that's the term that i'm using tweakers all right so uh in that walk-in freezer. They stole the copper lines i spent all night there redoing the copper lines had to come back the next day, anyways and in the end of the video or somewhere in the video. I said you know what i had a feeling that they might have gotten on the roof and i was kind of avoiding going on the roof. Well, i went back a couple days later and found out that they attacked every ac on the roof, but they must have gotten caught because they didn't steal the condensers it looked like they were starting to, but they didn't finish the job, but they broke all the Drain lines off damaged the units beyond repair, the units were old anyways, but they damaged them beyond repair, and so we had to replace them all and it took forever all the way from march until june, the middle of june.

For us to be able to get the units replace them, and you know then i put it took me forever to edit the video too. So i finally edited the video and put it up. Okay. Now one thing i need to talk about right now, because there was a bunch of backlash and comments in my videos and i'm not going to change anything about my video okay.

It is what it is, but um first off a lot of people. I'd say i shouldn't say a lot, but there was quite a few people that were giving me feedback negative feedback because of the way that i said you know or made it sound like the tweakers were bad for what they did and they were. The tweakers were horrible guys. They cost that restaurants uh, i didn't buy the units, the restaurant buys them themselves, okay and then i installed them, but then the electrician had to come out and do a bunch of electrical work too, and then they had plumbers come in there.

So, all together, i'm estimating that that uh job with the uh, the rooftop equipment and the repairs that we did to the walk-in freezer and the walk-in cooler cost the customer over 75 000.. Okay, it wasn't an insurance claim, the customer paid for it out of their own pockets. Okay, we're not going to go into why they paid for it out of their own pockets, but that's just how it is. They did not claim it on their insurance, so that customer spent their own money to replace all those units, because some tweaker got on the roof and stole the copper, because that tweaker felt like he needed it more than that restaurant.

Okay. I have no compassion for that person they're a horrible person, okay, and i don't want my restaurant to have to spend that money unnecessarily. Okay, there's a lot of people in the comments too, that said hey. Why are you complaining? You got to charge the customer to install the new units.

Yes, i did get to charge the customer, but here's the deal. I want my customers to be profitable. I want my customers to be successful. Equipment breaks if they're, profitable and they're successful their equipment is still going to break and i'm going to be able to go in and repair it.

Okay. But it's things like this that hurt the customer. I don't want my customer to have to prematurely replace their units or replace them all at once. Okay, yes, these units were ending their life cycle, they were towards the end, but they were still operational and yes, this is a proactive customer, so they would have started replacing them, but still this wasn't something that they planned on doing spending seventy five thousand dollars, replacing All this equipment at one time, okay, as we were coming out of the craziness from last year, this is what they had.

They weren't even completely open. Yet when we found this when this equipment was, you know damaged like this, so it sucks - and i don't want my customer to have to spend this money because i want them to be successful and keep being successful for years to come. So that way they can keep using me for their normal repairs. Okay, so that's why i was frustrated right and i do not have any compassion whatsoever for the person the thief, the tweaker, the whatever that thought that they needed to get up there and ruin this customer's equipment that sucks man there's there's no excuse for that whatsoever.

If they're a drug addict, that's you know whatever. I don't have compassion for someone that steals from other people. It's just wrong. Okay, so it is what it is um all right.

Let me go through my list of things to talk about here and mark them off, because i kind of already uh covered a few of these things so talked about that talked about that, and i talked about that. I have like a list in front of me and if i don't cross it off, then i wouldn't know what to talk about. So i already answered that one um. Oh, this is a good one right here.

So in the video people ask me several times: how come we don't booby-trap those units to electrocute the person when they go to steal that copper or how come we don't put an alarm on that system. That'll notify the customer. How come this? How did the comp did the police come and take fingerprints? Did they do this? Did they do that guys? Number one? We can't booby trap equipment, okay, because that would be inhumane uh. Yes, i know that we want to do that, but you can't harm someone.

You know like that. Okay, you just can't all right that you know it's just you'll go to jail for that, so that's not gon na happen. Okay, as far as did the customer install an alarm system all that stuff. That's not really my problem.

Okay, i'm there to fix the equipment if the customer asks me my opinion on things that they can do to protect the equipment. Of course, i will give them my opinion, but i'm not going to go in there. It's not my responsibility to make the units. You know uh set them up to where they can't get stolen or anything like that.

That's on the customer. If the customer chooses to do so, then they can ask me, and we can go into that route, but at this time the customer's not doing anything else to prevent it. So it is what it is: okay, um, as far as how the thieves got on the roof, that particular location is just in a really bad area and uh these guys. It doesn't matter.

You know they lock the building, they lock the ladders, they do everything, but these guys will find a way. Okay, because it's interesting, because if a tweaker put their mind to doing something, constructive it'd be really interesting what they could get away with, because they really do have some ingenious ways that their mind works and i'm not praising him. I'm just saying the things that they will go through to steal twenty thirty dollars worth of copper and the methods that they use to get to that twenty thirty dollars in copper is amazing. Okay, so i got to give them credit for their ingenuity and figuring things out.

Those dudes didn't even have tools really either and it's amazing what what damage they can do without tools, so you know, go figure all right. Um, let's see as far as that ac install goes. Let me look at the chat, real, quick, um yeah. Exactly how come we don't set claymores yeah booby traps are illegal.

We can't do any of that stuff. Okay, um! Why am i tweaker racist? You don't even know the stuff i went through in my comments today, too. Okay, let's go ahead and talk about something right now: okay, i'm gon na go a little bit personal here all right and it's okay, because i really have never talked about this kind of stuff, but um and i don't take offense from the comments or anything like That and everybody has their own opinion in the way that they want to think about things. Okay, so you know i am going to share a little bit of information about my personal life, all right.

I grew up in a home where drugs were involved. I grew up being around drugs. I grew up seeing drugs um i uh and - and it was my mom, my biological mom is a drug addict or was a drug addict? Okay, she lives in a nursing home somewhere now right but um. I grew up with that stuff and uh.

I still love my mom right, she's. Still the person that raised me. She taught me to be a good person, but she fights drugs, but i don't have um. I don't make excuses for her right.

She has willpower. She can stop she's a good person. I've seen her be an amazing person. Okay, so my opinion on the matter is that you know she has a problem and that's on her all right.

She's made bad decisions in her life and i'm not gon na defend her and get mad at people if they call her a drug addict or talk about a drug addict, or anything like that. Okay, so for people to get angry at me for calling these people tweakers and being mad at them. I don't understand that. Okay, maybe i have a different way of thinking about things, but it is what it is: okay, um, this person that got up onto that roof and stole that equipment.

They're they're, not a good person. All right could they be a good person sure right but they're doing things that are wrong. It's wrong to steal it's wrong to do all that. Okay, so i don't have compassion for the person and you know i feel bad because they cost my customer a lot of money hard-earned money and it doesn't matter how big of a corporation my customer is, or anything like that stealing is stealing bottom line.

There's no justification for stealing ever and i live my life like that. I teach my children that same thing, there's absolutely no justification for stealing, no big, no, no matter how big the corporation or anything like that. Okay, so we're gon na get done with that and we're gon na get back onto hvac talk. So let me see what else we got going on in the chat: um good good for you, justin or jason.

That's that's amazing! Bud all right! Um! Let me see what else we got in here: uh, all right cool, so we're going to get on this um. Let's talk about a question that i had come in. Would i consider harvesting old parts to use in a bind in the future, no flat out? No okay - and let me explain this if i was a one-man shop and it was just me doing the work i might consider it. Okay, i might consider holding on to some old parts just to get me out of a bind in a weird situation, but i have employees when you have employees, there's a lot more stuff that comes into play.

When you have employees, you have to assume that your employees are going to make the correct decisions, putting in their hands to reuse old parts and to be able to troubleshoot to know if those old parts are going to last. If they're going to make the equipment work, just creates a bunch of red flags and a headache for a business owner in the future. Okay same thing: kind of goes into uh. When people ask me why i don't like using aftermarket parts, i'm going to be completely honest with you guys right now.

The biggest reason why i don't like using aftermarket parts is because, in order to use aftermarket parts oftentimes, you have to be a very strong technician and you really have to be able to look at the whole picture and make sure that that equipment is working properly. Let's say you put in a thermostat that is not an oem thermostat and you have to field calibrate it. You have to make sure that the unit is working. A hundred percent um, it's so much easier to put an oem part in there because you install it.

You set it and it either works or it doesn't all right. You don't have to tinker with it. You don't have to, you know, adjust things, so i prefer to use oem parts because i have employees and it's easier for them and it's easier for me to not have to walk them through things. The same thing goes to using used parts.

Okay, it's a massive liability, even if the customer wants it. It's still a headache. If i install a used part, the customer still thinks that i got a warranty. They still thinks that i gave them all this information and it just bites you in the butt.

In the long run, so no i don't use used parts, i don't save any used parts, i don't salvage anything. I don't fix old refrigerators and old air conditioners and try to resell them. It's not worth my time. Okay, my time is a lot more important than that and the amount of money that i make from that kind of stuff is minimal compared to my time with my family and all that stuff.

So no, i do not to answer that question all right. What personal growth do i look for with my technicians? What i expect from my technicians is to come to work. I want them to be happy, i want them to repair equipment, make sure it's working properly and i want them to grow. Of course, i do okay, but not everybody's going to grow and it's okay, all right.

I am not a growth company. I am not looking to grow. I've been bigger. I currently have including myself one two.

I have four technicians right now at the most. I might want five technicians because of my workload, but i'm turning down, customers left and right right now, because i don't want any more work and i don't want to grow my company to become some 100-man shop, i'm not interested in that. Okay, i like staying small. I like what i have so i do not want to grow my company anymore.

So as far as my employees go, i want them to be happy. I want them to be compensated properly. I want them to get paid good money, um and, of course i want them to grow and better themselves. Okay, so you know we talk about things.

I make these videos for them and uh that's the extent of it. Okay, so hopefully that answers your question. Uh roughly locations how many locations do i service um? That's a hard question. If i had to guess right now, uh, it's probably 50 to 60 different restaurants that i service uh, whether we do routine preventative maintenance or just service work.

I'd have to say it's somewhere in the 50 to 60 store mark or something like that, all right um. How do i feel about right to repair laws? Um i mean i'm not going to get up on a high horse and talk about it, because i don't have a huge opinion on the matter, but without thinking about it too much, i feel like people should be able to repair their own equipment. I feel like um, you know, there's some manufacturers within our industry that covet their technical information and don't really share it very much. There's a major hvac manufacturer that does this a lot and but it's not as bad as some of the bigger people in the right to repair movement that they're fighting against such as apple and different things.

Like that. I mean this particular manufacturer: i'm not going to name their names. If you guys want to name it in the chat you can, you can get certified on the equipment and you can take classes, but the amount of money you have to spend is nuts. They like their own service technicians, to be able to work on their equipment and even if you are certified, they kind of want you to be one of their technicians to be able to access their software and different things like that.

So it is a little bit. Frustrating you know, but i feel like you know: people should be able to repair their own equipment and shouldn't always have to buy new equipment just because something fails or something like that. So i don't know if that answers your question or not um, let's see but the best company. Okay, so jason, you said you work for a large company, 350 people, but it's the best company you've ever worked for normally large companies are bs, that's great man and i have nothing against large companies.

I just don't want to be one because of all the chaos that you have to go through with management and all that headaches and stuff. So i got nothing against them at all, so um. What's the best technique for cutting open hermetic after the fact diagnosing uh an angle grinder i mean that's what you need. You need an angle grinder a couple discs and if it's a cordless one or a corded one, you need plenty of batteries or plug it in and the first compressor you cut open is going to make a giant mess.

Of course, you got to have proper ppe gloves, glasses, chest protector and stuff like that. If you don't know what i'm talking about when you're using an angle, grinder just wait till it kicks back and hits you in the stomach and always make sure that your angle grinder has a guard on it, but even still you're shooting sparks you're causing problems. So the first compressor you cut open is going to be a mess and then everyone, after that's, going to get better - i'm not perfect at it. But i've gotten pretty good at cutting open the scroll compressors.

It's pretty easy without butchering them and being able to have all these parts. I it's funny because i've got scroll assemblies laying all over the place. In my house, i have one holding open a door uh one of these days. I should probably give them to a school or something like that, so that way they can analyze them um all right, uh yeah, the the company is named in the chat.

So let's just go with that um. How hard was it managing overtime stream? For the first time, um i've done the overtime stream once before it wasn't it's not a hard time managing it. It's just that my streaming software that i use, which is streamlabs obs. I don't have it set up for um working with streamlabs, which hosts the multiple stream people, so i messed up on the audio.

So inevitably, i just ended up signing into the overtime channel through stream labs, and then we fixed it, but i'm not a genius when it comes to this live streaming stuff at all. Dallas fan my buddy ralph is in here: hey ralph, how you doing man all right, um, let's see uh, let's see as they even have their own warehouses. That's right! You do um right on man all right when i run into a plugged fixed metering device on an rtu. Do you know it's going to be a pain, get it yep, eight believe it or not.

Laska you. You make a joke about plugged, fixed or fast metering devices on a pain unit right because that's an icp product carrier arc aware pain, all those different ones. I have two of them that my customer approved me changing the entire evaporators for because they have plugged up metering devices. So actually, i think i'm doing one of them tomorrow.

So we'll see if we can get some video footage of that um, let's see in the tweaker video part one you think you saw a multi-tool. What was it leatherman charge? Yeah? It is the letterman charged titanium. Yes um. I keep the leatherman charged titanium on my side.

I've come to really like it. It actually is pretty useful, pretty beneficial um. Let's see what is my favorite olympic sport gymnastics for sure um. I was listening to a radio show recently and they were talking about the olympics and how they have people have an emotional connection to the olympics.

I can remember the first olympics that i truly watched and it was in 1994, the i think it was in atlanta. If i remember right - and i remember watching it was the summer olympics - i remember watching the gymnastics and um - i remember just just being amazed with the gymnastics and to this day the gymnastics is still my favorite olympic sport. It's just a really cool sport. It's amazing uh.

I say it's amazing what those girls can do. I know that there's men that compete in the gymnastics too, but um. I don't know why. I guess the girls get more attention or something, but it is amazing, the the the athletes men and women.

What they can do in the gymnastics? It's it's crazy. So all right um! Let me see what else what are the canipix plier wrenches? I use uh there. They are just called canipix, plier, wrenches and they're the six inch model, i think, or the seven inch model. I don't have the part number in front of me, but all right um.

It's already answered that question. I'm crossing some things off my list right now. Uh. Do me a favor guys, um, let's see i, i have a a chat pinned right now.

If we get the likes equal to the views, i will do a giveaway okay. I have a couple things to give away so smash the like button, get it equal to the views. Let's try to get the views up to 400 views if we can and if we can get that like up to 400 likes, then i'll definitely do a giveaway uh. The chat you guys, let me know when we hit 400 views and 400 likes.

Okay, all right and then we'll do the giveaway. Let's see what else we got in here um. Would i consider selling my used tools when i upgrade um yeah? You know, i don't know, i guess it's a possibility. I've never thought about that.

I usually pass my tools down to my employees um, so i want to talk about something right now. It's interesting. You know it's kind of a thing, but i get a lot of people, especially from out of the country asking me how i can still work on r22 systems. How is it that i can do this? How can i work on r22 systems? Well, uh in the united states it is not illegal to use r22 in the united states.

There is new laws that recently have passed that make it illegal to manufacture and or import new r22 into the united states, but we can still use recovered r22. They can still use r22 that has been saved and is in storage. That was new, but they just can't bring any new r22 into the united states and they can't make any new r22 okay, so um, i still use r22 to this day. Okay, there is alternatives.

Um, basically, i give my customers the choice and i let my customers know the good and the bad and the things that we might run into the complications and majority of the time my customers choose to stick with r22, even though the price is going through the Roof. Okay, so i put it on my customers. If my customers want to use an alternative, i will gladly use an alternative. Okay.

It is what it is all right. So um do. I have a moral obligation to stop using r22. I don't feel like.

I have a moral obligation to stop using it just the same as any other refrigerant. Okay, i use refrigerant, i properly dispose of the refrigerant. I recover it and i take it to the supply house and the supply house sends it to the recycler. They either clean and reuse the refrigerant and then resell it and or they dispose of the refrigerant.

So i'm not doing anything wrong, i'm not venting it into the atmosphere. You know so i don't feel like. I have a moral obligation to stop using r22. Of course, i put it on my customers and you have to understand something when my customers want something i got to do what they want: okay, so um.

It's interesting that my buddy ralph is in here, because my buddy ralph works for honeywell, refrigerants, okay and ralph is always in the chat and he's always available for everybody that is interested in any r22 and or refrigerant alternatives. We have a lot of new refrigerants being phased out and different. Things like that and ralph is always willing to talk with people. So if you guys have any refrigerant related questions and you want to talk to ralph, i'm going to put his email in the chat right now, let's see right here, ctrl v, this is ralph from honeywell refrigerants.

You can feel free to email him and he can give you guys uh the good and the bad and the things you're going to have to do to convert over to alternative refrigerants, and this doesn't just concern. R22 404 is being phased out, 410 a's being phased out, it's all being phased out. So any alternative, refrigerants or refrigerant questions that you have make sure you email my buddy, ralph. Okay, all right um, let's see uh all right, so i'm going to go ahead and keep going on.

My list so mark asks on my ac video, where i kept plugging up the filter. Dryer mark had asked me how come i didn't use a suction line. Filter dryer to protect the compressor and the key word is protect the compressor. I could have put a suction line - filter dryer on that system, but in my situation the dryer kept getting plugged up.

Okay, a suction line. Filter dryer is not going to do a whole lot, because my compressor is the problem in that situation. So i don't want to unnecessarily sell something to my customer that they don't need the compressor oil has been damaged because the condenser has been left dirty for too long. The system has been running high, condensing temps and it cooked the oil and or burnt the oil, and you have carbon and different things in the system.

The compressor essentially is on its way out. The compressor is really dead, but it's just hanging on to its dear life, basically, so installing a suction line, filter dryer in that situation would not do anything because the refrigerant is being pushed out of the compressor and the contamination is getting stuck at the filter. Dryer. Now, if we were ruining txvs and had plugged up txvs, then that refrigerant might be coming back to the compressor damaged and or you know, burnt or whatever and a suction line filter dryer would help in that situation.

But in my situation a suction line. Filter dryer is not going to do a whole lot now, if and when we change the compressor. If the customer chooses to do so versus replacing the unit, then of course i'm going to put a suction line filter dryer on there, because we want to protect the new compressor from any contaminants that are in there. Okay.

Now, why did i not use rx11 flush in that system because i'm not a fan of any additives in my systems? Number one, okay, but the second thing is, if i put an rx11 flush in there, that is going to wash the walls of the copper just like poe oil would and it's going to clean everything off the copper walls. Okay and that's all going to come back and start plugging up the the txv and different things like that: okay, so i'm not a fan of using the rx11 flush because it can also leave uh, um uh leftover residue, basically from the stuff that you put in There, okay and i'm just not a fan of using the additives in there. I just prefer to leave just oil in the compressor and that's it all right. So that covers that question, and i also - and the same thing goes for like ac renew i i just don't really need it.

If the compressor is making the noise that it's making it's dead, it doesn't need something to quiet it down. It's i mean i put oil in it to try to help it, but that's it so um. I want to talk about something that i kind of talked about on the overtime show and that is using sub coolers on your recovery equipment or a cps is a particular manufacturer that makes a sub cooler and they call it a molecular transformator. It's a silly name for it, but essentially it is a liquid sub cooler all right and what you do.

Is you take that and you put it on the outlet of the recovery machine before it goes to the recovery tank and you dip it in water and that will sub cool the refrigerant, so you're not pushing vapor, and you basically will convert the refrigerant all to A liquid and then it slows down the um, the pressure building up in the tank and speeds up the recovery time. So why don't? I use a sub cooler. I actually have one of those cps molecular transformators and i just don't see the use in it. I don't see a time saving by using that what i have done is increased my hose diameter coming from the gauges to the recovery machine and then coming from the recovery machine to the tank to a 3 8 diameter hose, and i feel that that speeds up The recovery time tremendously, okay and then, if i find that my system pressures are building in that recovery tank too high, then i will dip that tank in ice, water and or just running water, and i find that that does the job.

For me, the other thing, if you want to speed up your recovery time on anything, is take out the schraders in the system too. Okay, so i work regularly out in the southern california desert where it can get 115 plus degrees, and i can recover 410 on 115 degree day by just using 3 8 diameter hoses and just putting my tank in ice water and it does it. No problem. Don't need a sub cooler, the it's you know instantaneous.

It moves that refrigerant. Just like that. So i personally don't find the need for a sub cooler. Now you don't have to spend all that crazy money and go buy that molecular transformator.

If you don't want to you, can i mean they're cool? You can also make one. It's really easy, um the cool thing about the molecular transformator. If there is anything cool about it, is that it's in a package that protects the copper lines. The other thing about some of those sub coolers is they actually use a smaller diameter pipe? I believe they use quarter inch or 5 16 and that's a small diameter.

So that's actually more pressure build up and another thing about the sub coolers. Is that refrigerant, coming out of your machine going to the sub cooler then going to the tank? It's going to fill that up and it's going to be trapped in that sub cooler. There's really no way to get it out unless you were to ball valve it off and everything so you're also going to have a lot more refrigerant being vented into the atmosphere when you're using those sub coolers versus just using large diameter hoses. All right so remember.

Whenever you pull your recovery machine apart, you typically have refrigerant stuck between the machine and the tank. Well, when you add that sub cooler, you can probably have close to a pound of gas, that's going to be stuck in there and that's going to be vented to the atmosphere. So you know think about that too, when you use that all right, let's see what else we got in the chat going on here, um, let's see what causes compressor oil in an r22 system to look brown and frothy brown and frothy um. That's an interesting one! Frothy um - hmm, i think, there's usually a lot of oil in there.

That's a good question, though i don't know the answer to that one right now, um. Let me see right here what we got going on in here: um don't buy into the hype. I don't know what that's about, but okay, i won't buy into a scott nylog white is awesome in use it on glycol systems and it's fantastic.