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, how you guys doing this evening. I hope you guys are doing well um doing pretty good over here. Nothing too crazy.

I can't complain. It was just another monday, uh had a long holiday weekend. It wasn't really like it was kind of mellow. For me, i didn't get any calls over the weekend, but i did have to work all day friday.

So the way that we do it is um. We have thanksgiving off because that was a paid holiday for us in the united states that are watching right now. This was thanksgiving, was this last thursday, so that's a paid day off for us and then we usually take the day off after that. But the person that's on call has to work normal time.

You know so you don't get paid overtime for friday unless you go over your after 4 p.m or over your eight hours, then you know you get overtime, so myself and the apprentice were actually on call and uh um. We we basically worked all day friday, but we were off by like three o'clock. I think we got like seven hours in or something and then we really didn't get any other calls over the weekend. There was a few calls that came in, but they all wanted to hold off until monday, so but it was a good weekend, just uh hanging out around the house, just a nice long weekend doing some video stuff kind of working on a really special project.

That's coming up that i've been teasing for a long time now so uh yeah i've been kind of doing a few things with that and picking some names and it's been pretty cool, pretty cool project. I'm super excited to have it come together and uh yeah. That's it um. I see a bunch of people in the chat right now.

What's up um hvac times in here you guys, if you guys, haven't already definitely uh go over and check out his channel. That's holden and he's got a great channel. He does more commercial uh chiller work, that kind of stuff, more slight heavy industrial, stuff um, but uh just click on his little name right there and subscribe to his channel check it out. It's got some good stuff going on um and we're supposed to have him if we get off our butts and figure things out, we're supposed to have him on the overtime channel here soon too, if you guys don't know and you've been living under a rock.

I also do another live show with my friends on the hvac overtime, youtube channel, just google, it or just search hvac space over time on youtube, and you can't miss it. Okay, it's just a bunch of us silly guys, just relaxing. I do have to say, for those that are in the chat that know about the overtime channel, it's definitely a different vibe than what we have going on on this channel. Okay, this channel is somewhat politically correct, somewhat censored somewhat relaxed.

The overtime channel is basically all that pent up um stuff that i suppress on this channel comes out on that channel. Okay, lots of crazy stories, uh lots of me being a dumbass drinking way too much and uh same with my friends, while some of them, two of them don't drink anymore losers. Guys, like you know, come on guys for people yeah, whatever we'll i'll i'll pick adam on the show later, but um but yeah been a pretty crazy. I mean pretty chill week.

For me, the holidays are always slow uh. This is our slow time of year. So it's time to really pay attention when we're doing preventative maintenances, you know opening our eyes trying to find work to keep us going because it's going to be slow off and on through the rest of the end of the year and then it'll pick back up. Come in february, as usual, so um as usual, guys, if you guys have anything that you want me to cover uh put it in the chat, put it in caps, lock i'll, try to get to it.

If you guys haven't already, please smash the like button or the thumbs up button on the channel. It definitely helps to keep the stream noticed by youtube. I'm looking in the chat right now, um uh, seeing anything going on in here john cruz says he spent the last two days in a fresh air over a heat wheel. Oh rebuilding heat well see.

I've never had to do that. I've only seen minimal heat recovery wheels just on smaller, like aeon units. When i used to do some work for applebee's a long time ago. I don't do work for them anymore, so i can mention it.

I usually don't try to mention my customers names but yeah. I don't even think i have any other stuff in videos. It was so long ago, um uh. You know i get a lot of questions about where i get the music that i use for the videos.

It's just like stock music from epidemic sound, which is a um, a service that i pay to be able to use music, that people make just for that service. And i do have to admit that sometimes some of the music does sound like other stuff because they like they take a popular song and then they'll change the the the the chords and they'll change it to where it's like backwards. Like there's one. Let me see if i can find it right now.

I think it's this wait. Let's see nope, not that that's that's a teaser yeah! That's for something else! That's coming up! You know something coming up soon, but i do have to say that for those that know what that sound means, it's not gon na be like you think it is. It's totally different, totally totally different, but the other one not that one where's it at. That's a dog, i guess i don't have it, but there's one that i play all the time i used to play all the time and it's pumped up kicks, but it's backwards and, like the chords are changed so that way they don't get a copyright strike.

So it's kind of funny how some of those epidemic sound people work or whatever they just have weird music, but anyways. Let's see what we got going on in here, um kevin sullivan. I did see your super chat. I actually have it right on the top right here and i did want to say thank you very much for that that super chat that was amazing, bud.

Uh kevin sent a question right at the beginning and he's curious. He said on that call with the moisture contaminating my pump oil could a fly-by-nighter have monkeyed with that system um, and then he had a follow-up question below that. Uh he's saying that i found no leaks, but i mentioned that the schrader valve sometimes that valve can cause trouble. Maybe the owner had his buddy crank some refrigerant into it and that something else got in with it.

Okay, so we can get into that right now. So one of my videos that i released this last week - actually i think it was yesterday's video. We had a crap ton of moisture in the system, so we had a bad compressor. It was locked up.

I went back out. I made a video uh um. Was it that one? No that's right, nevermind anyways, i'm thinking of another video, that's being released this week, um, i i think, sometimes because some of these videos i work on them. You know a couple weeks in advance and they're sitting there waiting.

So there's a video coming out this week that was a two-parter but anyways uh, the moisture video. So it was a linux package unit. It was, i believe, a 10-ton unit. We had a bad compressor, it was locked up and when i went to go change the compressor and we went to go, pull the evacuation.

There was tons and tons of moisture in the vacuum pump oil and it was like where the heck did. This come from. So when i did the autopsy on the compressor, i'd never cut open an lg compressor. So that was a challenge in itself.

Then, when i once i got it open, i really i mean i saw signs of overheat situations in there and slight copper plating, but very slight. So definitely overheat going on inside that thing it looked like there was mechanical damage caused by flooded starts or something is what i'm thinking that particular customer does a lot of, or they don't do a lot of preventative maintenance. So you know we run into these issues. Loose belts all that stuff, so i don't think anybody else was working on that system.

I'm pretty familiar with that customer and i can't see them calling anybody else and the management on site has no control they're not allowed to call their own people, people that they know it's all based on a corporate level, so corporate structures uh greatly controls the people Coming into that location - and i have a pretty good idea that nobody else has been inside there - i'm pretty pretty um sure of that. So no, i don't think that anybody else could have contaminated that system. I don't think it was any of my technicians because it hasn't even been installed long enough to be a problem uh. There was some questions about it.

You know. Is it possible that, in the very beginning of the video when i recovered the initial charge, because i thought maybe it was low - maybe that recovery cylinder had moisture in it, there's always the possibility, because i did not put a micron gauge on it. But i did pull an evacuation large diameter hoses and i let it run for about 45 minutes. While i was getting everything else ready, okay, but i did not put a micro gauge.

I did take a shortcut on that. I don't think that there was a leak in that recovery, cylinder. Okay, i'm sorry! I don't think that there was uh moisture in it, but it is possible because that has something that has happened and actually one of the questions that i had got was. Why would i bother weighing that cylinder when and someone tried to inform me and that's fine? I appreciate people and giving me advice and stuff, but they said there's no point in weighing the cylinder, because the tear weight is stamped right on the side of the cylinder.

The tear weight is the empty weight of that cylinder. Typically, for that particular cylinder, it's about 17 pounds is the tear weight on average, okay, but if i knew that that was a completely empty cylinder - and i re i vacuumed it down before i used it, why would i bother weighing it? Okay, because sometimes there can be contaminants, there can be moisture if you've ever not or if you have not ever opened up a recovery cylinder. I challenge you to do so. Take a recovery, cylinder uh, make sure there's no refrigerant in it.

Obviously open the thing up. Pull the valve off and look inside of it and you'll be surprised how dirty those cylinders are: okay, recovery, cylinders, especially when they look really old and beat down they're notorious for being nasty inside um. They really need to be gone through, like an acid wash than a decontamination dehydration before they're shipped out and a lot of times they aren't when they're brand new. They typically don't do that.

I have an exchange program at my local supply house. So when i go get a brand new cylinder and i take it in with refrigerant in it - they just give me another cylinder right, that's already evacuated and pulled into a vacuum, and then, but sometimes those cylinders can be pretty nasty inside. I have seen it okay and they don't get cleaned out properly um, it's possible that that moisture came from there, but i don't know for sure okay, but why would i weigh the cylinder? Well, if there's contaminants in it, that would be one way of finding out. If i see the tear weight is stamped at 17 pounds and i go to weigh the cylinder and it weighs 18 pounds.

I have to start thinking. What's going on pick it up shake it around you'll hear stuff floating around in there you'll hear moisture or something like that. That could be a way to check for issues. I've also seen where the tear weight doesn't match what the cylinder actually weighs empty.

I've seen that before too, so it's always good to double check right. Let's see what else we got going on inside here, um, i'm looking through the chat, seeing what i'm missing, um yeah right on logan yeah - i you know i i try to do these, but i know a lot of people catch them at the recording after i've Done them so um man, i'm telling you guys. I really really need to get on my ac replacement in my house, because it is so ridiculously hot in my office. Now that i added that giant computer, you guys can't see it, but it's right.

On the other side of here, it's insane how hot it is in here right now, um, let's see, could the contamination, then the vacuum pump oil be from a metallic sludge from compressor breakdown and some metal where kevin sullivan? No, i don't think so. It's not going to be from the wear inside the compressor, and i want to address something else too, so that was my first time cutting open, an lg, compressor, um and i'm not gon na pretend, like. I know everything about compressors, okay, i know that they move refrigerant um and you know i mean i've gotten pretty familiar with the copeland compressors just by cutting them open. Talking with friends my buddy trevor, matthews and just kind of you know reading about them, but i really don't know a whole lot about the lg compressors okay, so i had a real hard time when i was autopsying that compressor cutting it open.

But when i did finally get it open, it kind of made sense what they were doing there, but i saw some serious heat damage in that compressor. If you guys don't know what i'm talking about my video that i released yesterday um, what was it called insane moisture contamination uh was a failed compressor and i autopsied the compressor at the end of the video um. So when i was cutting it open, there was a few things that i kind of uh was curious about. You know what i do have to address the fact that the 98 deville he said smash that thumbs up button.

I really do appreciate that and i have to address the fact that he has been a channel supporter for 19 months now. Thank you very much bud. Okay, if you guys don't know what a channel supporter is, it's basically through youtube. He chose to donate to the channel on a monthly level and it's really awesome and very humbling that you have chosen to do that.

Thank you so very much uh, the 98 deville. That is awesome, but again, thank you so very much for that. Okay, there's lots of other channel supporters and members. I know i do not do a proper job of addressing them all, and i really do want to work on that, but thank you, everybody that has helped to support this channel.

You guys don't have to support it financially. The easiest way to support this channel is simply watch the videos from beginning to end without skipping through anything. That's the easiest way right, because if you do that, then youtube run ads and then they give me a percentage of the the the ad revenue that they make and that's the easiest way you don't. You just have to take a little bit of your time and watch the video and i try not to jam the videos with too much too many commercials.

Okay, but let me make it clear that i have no control over well. I have very little control over the types of commercials they play. The only thing i can do is i can block a domain so like if i have a specific advertiser, that's driving me nuts, by advertising on my channel right. I can't pick them, but i can say hey.

I don't want this person on my channel anymore, but i have to be careful about that because i have done it in the past to certain people. Those in the chat that know who i'm talking about you can mention it. How long did the evacuation on that linux rtu? Take it took about an hour and a half two hours to do that evacuation. But you have to remember that doesn't seem like enough time, but i was using the true blue hoses and i was using a 10 cfm vacuum pump.

So we were able to get really pulling down on that thing um. So you know when you use the proper equipment you can get. It done pretty darn, quick, okay, but i was able to see just like i showed in the video when the evacuation happened. You know it was taking forever.

I kept doing oil changes and that is a cool thing about the vpx7. That's the 10 cfm field piece vacuum pump. Is you can do those on the fly oil changes and it's super easy. I love being able to see that there's another vacuum pump.

Appion appion makes the the tes tes 8 or something like that, and that one has the the glass. So you can see the vacuum pump. Oil too. That's i do appreciate when you can see it, because it's very misleading on some of the other vacuum pumps, because it just gives you a little sight glass and that sight glass is so misleading.

So i like being able to actually see a large you know chamber with the oil in it. That way, you can really really look at it, but back to what i was saying so when i was autopsying that compressor uh there was a couple things you know. I was curious about the magnet in the bottom, okay, and i know that i was like huh. What's this about i've, never seen a magnet in the bottom of a compressor and, to be frank, i understand why i know when people put them in oil pans to catch metal, shavings and stuff like that laska.

Thank you so very much um. Oh, i will okay cool laska said he he saw. He sent me a video um on some moisture that he's found in a system right on laska. Let me check it out and i'll talk to you.

Thank you very much for that super chat, but i really appreciate it but um. You know the the fact that they put a magnet in the bottom of that compressor, i got ta say, is a little bit disheartening. Okay, because copper is not magnetic okay. So what other metallic objects would you need a magnet in the bottom of a compressor for, let's think about that, really, why put a magnet in there? Okay, the only metallic objects that you're gon na see that are magnetic are gon na be metal shavings from in the compressor right.

Am i wrong on that, because the copper in the system - you know if you have copper shavings or anything like that - that's not magnetic! So it's a little concerning that they actually come from the factory with a magnet in the bottom of the compressor. Don't you think so i mean i'm just saying also on the top i was talking about. I i misspoke when i was saying that there was a read and i didn't really misspoke, but there was a reed in the top of the compressor. Actually, there was like four or six of them right.

I believe those were discharge. Check valves to be honest with you, i think, is what those were and they look like a reed. So i was more confused with what they look like. It makes sense that they're there it's just a check valve in essence, but um.

It's just different. The type of check valve that they were using on that compressor. Okay and the bearing surfaces in that guy were just beat down. Um yeah.

Exactly will speed said they're expecting the bearings to get eaten. That's what's tripping me out about that. Like uh, i mean i'm just dumbfounded by that that's kind of silly. You know that really is kind of silly that they do that.

Uh, let's see what else we got going on in here: um the led lights in your field. Piece are nice, the chilled guy uh. So i'm assuming he's talking about in the vacuum pump, um yeah, you know um. I have a pretty good relationship with field peace and uh they're doing pretty good um.

You know and they're they're, very receptive to uh criticism, and you know um advice on on ways to change things or ways that they can change their tools to help you. So if you guys do have advice or things that you want to talk to them about, i encourage you to reach out to them, because i really do like field piece they're, a great company, they're, good people to work with uh reader loy. Thank you very much for that super chat man. I really appreciate it um uh, oh, that is that is really awesome, and a very very nice comment there rita.

Thank you so very much for that super chat. That is amazing. Okay, that's just really awesome. Um.

Let's see troy belding says all motors will eat things. That's normal friction behavior. I agree that there's there's some potential for um damage, but that's that's pretty crazy, but anyways whatever it is. What it is you know, um have i seen a fan motor plug vibrate itself off yeah.

Definitely i've seen that a lot, in fact, on a lot of evaporator fan motors on reaching coolers like the little plugs and stuff like that oftentimes, we'll tape them with electrical tape because they'll fall off and then the fan motors will stop working so um. Let's see what else we got going on in the chat right now, jesus said he just got the blue on app hey zeus, i have looked at the blue on app before i don't think i currently have it on my phone. I did in the past. It's a nice app and it does a good job of consolidating user manuals for everything, and i do appreciate the fact i mean i got to be honest with you.

Okay, so blueon makes a refrigerator and it's an r22 alternative um. Currently, at this moment right now, i still don't use any r22 alternatives, but i do have to say that, with the way the prices are going right now, i've even had to drop my mark up on it to kind of continue to deplete my stock, but it's Inevitable that i'm gon na have to start using some r22 alternatives. More than likely it's going to end up being 407c, and i'm just going to do oil changes like i'm just not going to play around with things just put it just do an oil change. You know use r22 on on, you know topping a system off, but you know when we're doing big system replacements and conversions, we're going to take the oil out of the compressor put poe in it use 407c.

I do have to say. I know this is not their intention but blue on within their app. They have specific instructions on how to convert the systems or how to manipulate the systems to be able to handle these alternative refrigerants. Sometimes they say you know, install solenoid valves, and sometimes they say you know do whatever to the system, whether you're working on it and they have specific instructions.

And while they probably didn't mean this to happen, i imagine that those instructions also apply to using other alternative refrigerants. So you know if you guys want to use other refrigerants and you want to know how well the conversion is going to go and if there's anything, you should probably do whether or not you're going to use blue on or another refrigerant use the wrap check it Out see what they recommend, you do it's kind of a a hack. You know or something like that, but it is what it is. Um, rafael gomez.

Thank you. So very much for that super chat. I really appreciate it. Um he's asking me if you can send equipment to field piece for repairs, yes, field.

Peace does do repairs they're here in uh orange california, um, just google their website you'll find their address. Give them a call and just let them know um oftentimes they'll. Do you? Can take it to your local supply house and have the supply house ship it to them? Sometimes you know depending on how old it is, they may have you ship it to them. If you live in southern california, you can actually just give them a call.

Make sure they're there and they'll, let you come in and do a drop it off and sometimes they'll swap it for you right there. If it's under warranty or something like that, so fieldpiece does a great job of taking care of their tools. Let's see what else we got going on in the chat, lg life's good for uh sucks for you buy another, please that's funny! Jason johnson, you know hey, it is what it is. I i do have to say, though i have a lot of linux equipment out there with lg compressors in it.

I've probably only changed two or three lg compressors um. I have a lot of heat craft, condensing units for refrigeration that have lg compressors, and i mean they work. Fine bottom line, the customer abusing their equipment in this last video is what caused that compressor to go bad. In my opinion, okay, um.

It's just pure neglect. Right, the customer's not doing preventative maintenance. I told you guys in the video that i got coke nose mad going on right now. But i told you guys in the video that there was multiple uh free, stat error codes in that prodigy board, and that was just an indication of a loose belt consistently causing the system to have a freeze, stat error.

I did also have another question from someone. Let me see where it is right here uh. I already spoke about that one. Let me cross that off um.

Oh, that's a good one! I want to address. I already answered that question. I have a list of questions in front of me that way i can get going in here. So if that linux package unit had safety controls in it, i.e, freeze stats, low pressure controls, high pressure controls.

Why and the compressor also had a thermal temperature control on the top of the head too. So that way, if it overheated it shut the compressor off, why would we still have a compressor failure if it had all those safety controls in it, because the safety controls are just there to um, protect it? In you know, a one-time situation like the belt breaks boom, it shuts off on low pressure or it shuts off on a free stat. But if this consistently happens over and over and over and over again, because a customer isn't doing proper preventative maintenance, then you're gon na have a catastrophic failure, eventually, okay, so that is going to happen. You can't you know.

I i think that in those situations maybe the free stat should lock the unit out then, because why would we have so many free stat errors? If it didn't lock it out? I don't know you know on those linux units. I will tell you that uh. I think if it happens like if they have three low pressure codes, it'll lock out permanently um but uh. The the error codes that i was seeing were just free, stat errors.

So that's an interesting one, but that probably had something to do with the low charge. Too, because remember, it was low on charge in the very beginning, but not low enough to be completely out and as far as the low charge goes, i had a lot of questions about that. The only leak that i found was in the uh that schrader valve. I ended up changing the schrader valve.

I didn't show it on video, but i did change the schrader valve. I actually changed the straighter valves, plural, because whenever i change one i just change them all um, but uh yeah. So i did do that. So i'm hoping that was my leak because i didn't see a leak in the evacuation.

I didn't see a leak in the pressure test, so everything seemed fine um. Let's get to the chat. What type of recovery machine do i recommend? Do i like the navac brand tim m i have had. I have heard very good things about the navac equipment.

I personally have not used any navac equipment other than i have one of their small vacuum pumps, but it's not even worth reviewing, because it's a little battery operated thing um. So do i recommend navac. I cannot say that i recommend them, but i have heard a lot of other people and i'm sure people in the chat in here will tell you that they do make very good equipment. I've heard that from people personally, i like the field piece vacuum pumps uh.

They have the vp x7, which is a 10 cfm pump. It's way overkill for most of the stuff you'll ever use, but, interestingly enough out of all the vacuum pumps that fieldpiece makes the vpx7 is actually the lightest vacuum pump that they sell it's super. It's got a um, it's just an amazing vacuum pump. So if it's within your budget, i would highly recommend the vp x7 vacuum pump um.

That would be my first choice. But again i have nothing bad to say about about the navac equipment. Okay, because i've never never really used it so navac, i will say a little nugget that a lot of people don't know is navac's parent company. I can't think of the name of it right now.

Maybe someone in the chat will say it, but they're actually a manufacturer of most of the vacuum pumps for a lot of the major manufacturers and they have been for many many years. Then they decided to start selling their own line of vacuum pumps and they started creating them. So a lot of the the major vacuum pumps that are made by many manufacturers are actually made by navac's parent company or had been made by navac's parent company. So they have a history of making good stuff um and yes, they did the original vp85.

I did hear that navac did design the vp854 field piece. I don't think that they had anything to do with their new vacuum pump line, though the x, the vpx7 um, but anyways. I could be wrong on that. You know i don't know a whole lot about that.

One, let's see what we got. What type of recovery machine do i recommend do? Oh i'm sorry, you said recovery. I thought you said vacuum pump, but still the same thing goes for the recovery machine. Tim m um.

I've heard good things about the navac stuff. But personally i use the field piece. Mr45 recovery machine - it's a great recovery machine - does everything i need to do previous. To that i used the appion uh.

I don't remember: what's the appian pump called it's, not the tes 8. I don't remember what it's called, but i used to use that um. I can't think of it right now, but i used to use the appion vacuum pump, but i switched to the field piece and i'm not going back. I love the field piece pump, so it does great.

Let's see what else we got going on in this chat. Right now, uh jp says good evening from ontario is that ontario california or ontario canada, um winston wright, says he changes approximately five to ten lg compressors a week due to them being defective, so he's biased against lg's ability to build a compressor due to his daily Poor experience with them wow, that's crazy. Winston winston! Are you all commercial or do you do rezzy too? So? Are you doing residential refrigerator compressors? Are you doing commercial like uh, vfd, compress or vrf, compressors and stuff, like that? I know lg does a lot with the vrf systems. Do they not um? Let's see what else we got going on in here.

Um right on anthony marino says the navax7 cfm has been awesome for him and i've heard good things. So that's great man, i'm glad it works out good for you. It really is about what you're comfortable with you know. Some people swear by appion.

I swear by the field piece stuff, but i know there's other good stuff out there too. It's just what you're comfortable dealing with you know: um, let's see what we got going on in here, um i'm reading through the chat right now, hey joe you made it. I know joe was super busy at work today. I see him in here right now, uh.

Let's see i'm reading through g2, i had the g5 twin or g2, i don't know whatever, but yeah. That's right. Laska said um, let's see next year, field piece will be releasing the v. Oh that's funny.

All right, uh, let's see ontario california, is fake, troy belding said no, it's not. Okay! Don't talk about ontario, california. I spent lots of time at the big shopping mall in ontario. California, when i was a teenager right now.

That's funny is it true. We may be going to refillable refrigerant tanks, uh, you know samuel. I have heard that before. I know they do it in other countries, but logistically it's a nightmare um, it's possible.

They might go to doing that. Uh. You know it's hard to say, though you know. I don't know um the the downside to doing refillable tanks.

They were always worried about people putting other things in the tanks, so that that's why they put check valves in them and stuff like that. So i don't know who knows man, but i tell you what, if the hippies have their way, basically anything you can dream of, is gon na happen, so um, let's see rsd, allied or united in the inland empire. Kevin corona is asking um, so rsd, refrigeration supplies, distributor, allied refrigeration and united refrigeration are actually my three go-to supply houses. I use all of them for different reasons, and i i try to support as many as possible that way.

I can keep my pricing low um. That way, i can, you know, have good options when i need to find things right, so i try to support all three. If i had to say, though i think rsd gets a little bit more of my support. Ironically, rsd is the most expensive supply house out there in my area, but they have good clean supply.

Houses nobody's been smoking in them. It doesn't smell nasty. When you walk in the door, they have good organization. You know, but there's things that the other supply houses have too united refrigeration.

I actually have to happen to have the west coast distribution hub in my ontario branch, so they typically have everything you could possibly need at that united refrigeration. So it's a really good resource. It can take a while, because they're super busy and they're a big store, they're a big supply house. So sometimes you might have to wait in line five to ten minutes.

That can be an inconvenience, but i mean if you call ahead and put things on wilco, it makes it a little bit easier. Uh, allied refrigeration uh worked with a lot of them uh their counter guys for many many years. I grew up using one of their counter guys as my mentor um. You know, and i learned a lot from him: uh great supply house, good people, there um just an older supply house and again i do a lot of equipment purchases through them.

Again, i try to support as many supply houses as possible, so um we also have ars refrigeration. Honestly, i haven't been a customer of ars in a long time simply because they were not in a convenient location for me, but they just moved a new location into corona california, which is much closer to my service area. So it's a very good possibility. I should say: they've always had one in corona, but their old location was in a horrible place to get to so the new ones and a little bit easier, and you know i could probably consider myself supporting them more in the future.

So we'll see it really. I try not to be specific to one supply house, though you know um, let's see jason johnson says he misses having rsd only one united. That's it for dedicated refrigeration supply houses, yeah, that's a bummer! Luckily, i'm in southern california - and we have a big market for refrigeration, so you know we have it all here. Let's see what else we got going on here coming soon to the usa, ban on 410a refrigerant on food processing equipment, kevin sullivan, every refrigerant is being banned.

Any refrigerant that we're using right now eventually is on the chopping block and again, if the hippies have their way, we won't be using co2. We won't be using propane or r290 because to to to process r290, it's a byproduct of of oil right so um. You know they're trying to get away from all that stuff. So damn my nose is driving me nuts right now.

Nah this is dry. Air is killing it um. In my recent video when i was working on the ac that had the moisture contamination problems, a few people were asking about when i was charging the refrigerant and one guy specifically was like hey. Why are you charging that as a vapor, i was not charging 410a as a vapor? Okay, you always want to charge 410a.

As a liquid, i pretty much do every refrigerant as a liquid, even r22 um. I occasionally will still deal with r12. I do everything as a liquid, okay, uh. It's just easier that way, but people may mistakenly think i'm charging as a vapor.

Maybe because i was using a recovery cylinder and something that i have to point out is that if you're working with recovery cylinders doesn't matter what weight they are just because they have a red and blue handle on them doesn't mean jack squat. I have two recovery. Cylinders sitting right next to each other, one has a blue handle that says: vapor one has a blue handle that says liquid one has a red handle that says: vapor one has a red handle that says liquid. It changes from every cylinder, so you can never trust the colors, always look at what's labeled on there, okay um, so i always charge every refrigerant as a liquid um, let's see what else we got going on in here.

Uh someone says it's not dry air. No! It's actually my nose, that's itching, it's not the inside! So it's not. I mean i guess it could be allergies, but it's dry. Skin crap, like that uh ars, isn't that the white shirt sales company - oh jason, johnson, yeah, ars, there's a service company called ars, but then there's also a supply house called american refrigeration supply.

They used to be crs and i believe that was california refrigeration supply and then they merged with ars and they became one supply house under the ars name, but they are american refrigeration supply. They are separate from the sales company ars, which, yes, they are a white shirt sales company. Um, let's see have i seen a walk-in evaporator violently vibrating yeah, i mean you know. Sometimes you do when, when motors go bad and stuff, let's see david vargas is saying he just did a job at ontario mills and he's on his way home.

Now i used to do work for ontario mills david. You might have even been working for because i know we're not going to mention names david, but the company that you work for. I don't know if you still do it for a while. You were doing work for a restaurant uh at that particular mall, and i used to do work for that restaurant many many years ago, but again, i'm not gon na mention names but um.

I know david, i know of david, we've talked online and stuff and he lives local to me. Uh, let's see um, let's see when your nose itches, like that, you take your antihistamine and within a half an hour, you stop rubbing. That's a good point troy. Maybe i need to do that: yeah um! It's a long hair inside the nose needing clipping that that's the truth, man, i don't know about you guys, but my wife's always trying to get me to pluck my eyebrows.

I'm like what are you talking about, because i have like one eyebrow that grows really long and she always wants to pluck i'm like get the hell out of here man, i don't pluck stuff, you just trim it. I ain't into that pulling hair out your face. Stuff come on all right um. We have lost a lot of ars supply here in south east virginia, oh really, yeah! That's a bummer um yeah, exactly uh uh! Let's see, let's see who i'm missing in here right now.

Look at that! My buddy trevor matthews is in here man right on man, refrigeration, mentor trevor's got a cool thing going on. If you guys haven't already seen it go over to his website, um, i'm pretty sure i'm gon na look it up right. Now, i'm pretty sure it's refrigerationmentor.com! I'm gon na look it up make sure that i'm gon na plug his website right. I know it's refrigeration mentor on youtube and let me make sure that that is his website.

Address too uh come on come on. What is your website trevor i'll make sure i get it right? Um, but anyways yeah go to refrigeration, mentor on on youtube for sure, uh check, trevor's stuff out he's doing great over there so trevor and i and to my issues. I've been trying to work with trevor on a video, and it has nothing to do with him. I've just been super busy and haven't been able to deal with stuff, and then it sucks, because there was a day that trevor and i scheduled everything i got up early and my dang webcam wasn't working right and yeah.

It's just a whole thing, but um we're going to be working on something very soon. So um, let's see what else we got going on in here uh. What is up? What is up, what am i reaching uh? Where do i see myself in five years? Nathaniel hedge, that's a good question man, because you know the way that my business is operating right now, uh, i run a small refrigeration company here in southern california that deals with restaurants in five years. I hope to have a few more employees.

I hope to be able to spend more time making videos and training technicians see where i see myself is in a perfect world. I'd like to operate my business. To be honest with you, i'd like to hire someone to run my business like a general manager in a perfect world right, i want to be a training manager. I want to go out and start training service technicians, be the guy.

That's training, apprentices. That way. I can build them up and get my company where i want it as far as the service goes um. So in five years in a perfect world, i see myself um.

You know having a few other technicians working for me, working my way towards hiring a general manager to run the company for me and then being able to just go out and run service and do calls and not have to worry about a lot of the drama That comes along with running a business. That's where i'd like to see myself in five years, i'd like to see myself doing a little more consulting helping people kind of like what trevor's doing in a different way, but you know being able to help people to to train technicians to be big picture minded You know to to look at everything i would like to do that a little bit more um, so that would be something that the consulting would be something i want to do too, but i don't ever want to be a salesman. None of that stuff. So um see what he got uh reading through the chat right now, um kevin sullivan, says, nose itch refrig refrig herpes wash your hands before you take a leak or it gets up in your that's pretty funny, bud um, all right so uh.

On my moisture video uh, the one where i had massive contamination in that lg compressor, one of the commenters had said because i told him that the compressor was under warranty and he said, hey um, because i mentioned in the video that in a perfect world i Wanted to go back out there and change the dryers again and then do an oil test. Maybe even do an oil change on the existing compressor and a commenter said. If i wanted to do all that stuff, don't shouldn't, i have warrantied all that and done it under warranty and no because i didn't sell them the equipment. I was just honoring linux, the manufacturer's five-year warranty on their compressor.

I charge the customer for my labor and all the materials that i use minus the compressor. So it's not my workmanship, that's being warrantied it's. It was just a five-year compressor replacement and, to be honest with you and to be fair being that that compressor was, you know, exploded inside that was kind of the customer's fault for not doing proper preventative maintenance. So um, let's see what else we got going on in here: um find a gm and hike the pacific crest trail.

That would be a dream of mine, couch potato. I have always dreamt of hiking the pacific crest trail uh, it's just i i wish that is one of the biggest regrets that i have. I would never want to change anything about my family, never want to change anything about my life or anything like that, but i wish that when i was 17 18 years old that i would have saved up money and hiked the pacific crest trail before i had A family and all that good stuff, in fact my wife probably could have done it with me, because we were dating at the time um yeah. I want to hike the pacific crest trail and i'd love to hike the appalachian trail too.

I am a backpacker at heart. I love doing that. That's one of my favorite things being out in the middle of nowhere um getting lost and trying to figure your way out of it. That's that's! It's just amazing just being out of touch with everything i love it.

Um, let's see uh in 10 years, you want to retire, yeah that'd, be a good one too um, let's see what else we got going on in here. Do you have to send a super chat to get me to answer no docs? You just have to put your question in caps lock, but sometimes it's hard for me to see questions so put it in caps, lock and i'll try to get to it. But you got to understand that, like the chat is scrolling by right, it's scrolling by so i don't go back up to try to review every question. So if i miss your question, just keep reposting it until myself or one of the moderators does sees it or tells you to stop okay, but put it in caps.

Lock, um, don't lie. I wanted to be a park ranger and still do yeah alaska. I mean that that that's, you know being a park ranger for sure too. That would have gone right along with being out in the middle of nowhere um for sure.

Let's see, um all right, um yeah trevor, you ever take a trip to california. Hit me up. Bud we'll we'll figure something out for sure. So i answered that question: let's go ahead and get to another one.

I already answered that question. Let's talk about um go through my okay, so in the previous week two i wanted to address some comments because uh, if you guys don't already know, i am posting a little bit more, it's actually pretty convenient. I was trying to avoid the whole tick tock thing for a while, but i decided to go ahead and jump in head first and i'm doing the facebook reels and i'm doing the ins all these different things right and at first i didn't understand these short videos, But i'm actually starting to like them, because i don't have to edit them. I don't have to do anything crazy and i can post little clips whether they be funny whether they be educational, so on all social media platforms.

You can find me at hvacr videos, so i have a tick: tock, hvacr videos, instagram, facebook, twitter, linkedin, all hvacr videos and i'm posting more and more of the short clips on there too. Last week i posted a short clip on tick tock, showing one of my vans getting towed away. My apprentice was with me and his van all of a sudden had no oil pressure. Thank goodness it was just a sensor like we were all hoping.

There was not a major, catastrophic failure. There was no internal damage to the engine, it was just a sensor, so we had to have his van towed. They, it was out of precaution. I was pretty confident there was nothing wrong with the oil pump, but just out of caution, i had it towed to the dealership, they looked it over, they had it fixed in a day and the van's back up and running.

So that's something that worked out. Okay in my favor, because that van has a lot of miles so i was worried. It was that time. Um, let's see uh today, i posted a little short clip on all the social media platforms, about a nasty reach and cooler, and i kind of wanted to talk about that.

So yeah we do work on reaching coolers and they can be dirty inside. Okay, did i call the health department? No did i grab the management right away? Yes, and the management was very receptive. You have to understand something. Okay, first and foremost, these restaurants aren't cleaning their refrigerators enough.

Okay bottom line - that's just what's happening, but there's more to it. Okay and i'm not making excuses for them not doing this kind of stuff. I'm just telling you the the what's going on these restaurants are so short staffed. They have managers that have only been managers for a week running the restaurants.

Okay, they have very minimal training. The staff doesn't have very good training. It's it's frustrating right now. This is a crazy time for restaurants.

Okay, so in that particular region, there was like black liquid all inside there, and i was like what the heck is this right. What i actually figured out was they make pizzas from that region, and my apprentice was with me and he's like. Well, they keep the pizza ingredients in here right. He goes.

I bet you that's olive juice and that's what it was. It was black olive juice and they keep it in the drawers on the top drawer and what happens is they fill it up and when they slam the drawer, the liquid comes out and the failure? I did not make a video on this, but the failure on that box was actually because of a bad evaporator fan motor that was all corroded and rusted out from that olive juice splashing on the motor so again that the black was actually just olive juice. But bottom line that region needed to be cleaned out and the management did do it after i was done, but what's happening is management doesn't have time. You know they don't have the staff to go through and check if the cooks are doing their jobs properly.

The cooks are told that they need to clean these things out, and the management just doesn't have the time to go in there and verify that they're actually doing it. So a lot of the restaurants are working on this, but bottom line. They didn't clean it out. You know it is what it is um and the management knows.

You know when i grabbed them and showed them they're like oh, my gosh, and they were taking pictures and they were sending it off to the corporate office and all these different people just to let them know. You know that they're going to get on it because - and we do have a lot of people - are asking me about health inspections and that kind of stuff. We do have health inspectors here in the united states, but even the health departments are short staffed. They don't have enough staff to go through.

It's very rare that i see restaurants getting shut down anymore. They just don't even have the staff to make it into half these restaurants to do their routine safety inspection. So it's just a massive failure. All the way, across whatever reasons you can call it political, you can call it economic, it's it's, nuts, okay, but bottom line.

It's just a mess and yeah these restaurants do need to do a better job of maintaining their equipment. But it's a difficult task. It's not as easy as people make it seem to be in a perfect world. They don't open the restaurants unless they have the staff but they're a corporation that needs to make money.

It's it's. It's just a big fight that they have to do. Okay. So, let's see what else we got going on in here, um, what up sean michael, how you doing bud uh say i'm looking for a question right now.

Someone was asking me about a question: um docs, i'm seeing right now, but i'm looking. I i don't see your question here, but i'm not going back up in the chat. So i'm looking for your question right now. You need to post it in caps, lock, go copy and paste it and post it again: okay, um uh james vanderburgh! I just talked about the dirty equipment right now, so um.

Let me see what else we got going on in here. I'm looking when i look through these questions, i'm looking for caps, lock, okay, um. Let's see needle nose, pliers versus nose hairs in a mirror; uh! No, i don't pull nose, hairs dude. I stick one of those horrible things up that cuts them and then makes you cry.

Let's see, what kind of tools do i carry in my daily carry tool bag? Your bag is getting so darn heavy. Damn heavy um. Currently, right now, my daily carry is the veto roller bag, the tech pack backpack thing with wheels on it. Uh one of these days, i'm gon na.

Do i'm gon na get back to the video reviews and stuff um. I have the bag a little bit loaded too much, it's kind of hard to say my daily carry, but i carry quite a bit in my bag um, so i'll have to do a video on that and show what everything is inside that bag. Let's see um reading through here right now, i'm reading through looking for questions in caps locks, so um hello to everybody. That's in there dwayne doxley how you doing bud um, let's see uh trying to read trying to read olive juice.

Sucks stinks up the hands for days and gets really really hard when cool down. Yes, it does so um. I'm reading through these right now trying to make sure if you guys have questions you want to put them in caps. Look: okay, docs wants to know what to use to defrost when you can't use water or a flame uh docks.

Thank you for helping them out there troy. If you can't use water or heat well, i prefer you not use a flame at all, but if you can't use water i mean you can just do off cycle, but that's it man. You got ta taking an off cycle defrost to try to defrost. The evaporator is just a serious waste of time.

You need to get water in there and you need to defrost it very carefully without getting water on the floor, i mean it's inevitable, that's what you need to do. You can shut it off. You can modify the system, i don't know if it's a freezer or cooler, you can modify it to where the fans just run temporarily to try to cool it off. But in the meantime, your product temperature is going to come up.

If you use water and get in there, turn it off and melt the water, your product temperature you'll, have it back on and running in 45 minutes and your product temperature barely gets affected so um you do 95 of all service calls out of the mb3 black.