Kind of funny. Check this out. Come in here. The very first video on my YouTube channel was diagnosing an electrical short on that evapor.

Quil And the irony is that this will be my last video on my YouTube channel. This video is brought to you by Sportland Quality, Integrity and tradition. Well, we've got a complaint that half their bar the beer is pouring warm. so this is their glycol unit.

This circulates cold glycol from a Reservoir in here, cool by the compressor and a heat exchanger. and then these pumps push that glycol throughout the beer tap. so they're saying half of it's not working. This pump is running.

This pump is Not there. It goes. It's locked up, so it looks like we might have a bad pump. So that turned off that one that turned off off the other one and that turned off that.

We're going to open this up and see if there's something going on with this pump. pulled off a little band right here and then the pump actually separates from the motor. The pump is spinning, but it's tight. Very very tight.

Very very hot. The motor spins. Let's go ahead and yeah, this guy has got something going on inside of it and the shaft has play. If you grabb the shaft and move it up and down, it has play so it's got bad bearings in the motor.

now. we changed the pump right here and the motor as a set and I have one so we're going to get these swapped out all right, slowly getting the motor put in. Couple things. these MX connectors.

Sometimes the the retaining nut needs to go on this side because this one has a spot for it to twist in. but if you don't put the retaining nut there which that one was already there, it'll push too far in and it'll pinch the wires or hit the wires. The next thing. This is a resilient Mount motor.

Meaning it has rubber bushings right here and it's not grounded that way. so you have to use these ground wires. Now this is the wire that came on this motor. It was damaged see it was pinched so I had to take the ground wire off the other motor.

You got to pay attention to that stuff, especially on these cradle mounts. or resilient. Mount Motors All right, this is where this gets hard. putting the motor in.

It's kind of a challenge. Whatever got that, it runs, it works. We're good. Okay, okay, but getting the pump on.

that's the tricky part because these lines are full of glycol with the least amount of loss. Sometimes they can create a siphon and just drain the whole dang system. So um I usually have a couple pans and uh, we'll work on that. We got the new pump right there.

so I Got to undo these fittings. Undo these threaded fittings, Undo these fittings, You put it all back together. Lots of Teflon and everything. Sometimes you got to get a little creative.

I Just went and got a bolt, shoved it in there. it's drip drip and I'll get it SW Swapped out real quick. All right. I Turned it back on I Like to give it a few minutes of run time without insulating to make sure that we don't have any leaks looking good.

So far, nothing. It's been running for about 5 minutes, both pumps and motors. We still need to get a current reading on this one just to make sure we're not over amping and that's it. Uh, the pump is running at 5.4 amps.

it's allowed to run 6.1 The other one's running fine too, so we're just going to wait. I'm going to clean up my tools and we're going to watch this guy come down to temperature. Hopefully everything else is good with it. It's kind of funny.

Check this out. Come in here! The very first video on my YouTube channel was diagnosing an electrical short on that evapor. Quil The irony is that this will be my last video on my YouTube channel. I'm just kidding I shouldn't say stuff like that, but yeah, uh, always want to make sure the beer walking's temping proper.

It's 34 in here, nice and cold. Um This can be the source of glycol problems too. Uh, warm beer. I should say cuz the the beer has to be cold in here.

The glycol unit then keeps the beer cold from this walk to the Taps So I really shouldn't joke like that, but it is kind of funny. This was the very first video on my YouTube channel. was literally diagnosing an electrical short. If you still go back to the very first video, it's it's working on that beer walking and uh, you know that's what started the whole YouTube channel is me making that video to show my employees.

You know this is how we do things. if you guys haven't heard the story. I got myself into a position where we lost. It was like four employees at the same time.

it's four or five I can't remember but it was a lot right? I think we were down to two people myself and someone else. um and uh, you know there was fault on all sides, but I'm going to take a majority of the blame because I missed signs from my employees I wasn't paying attention. we got complacent, life happened, and you know, within a month's time we had four people quit and uh, you know one person moved on to bigger better things. One person person decided to go work for a different company, one person left the industry so it wasn't like everybody just left I mean for all varying reasons.

But there certainly was a surprise for us when we found out and so we had to hire new people with experience, right? But they weren't experienced in the way that I do things. So that's what started the YouTube channel. And if you go back and watch that very first video, it's kind of funny cuz I remember I still get comments about that video and people are like why are you talking to me, Why are you telling me what to do Because it's not meant for the general public, this is meant for my employees and that was the whole basis of starting this YouTube channel right? So anyways, here we are. Long story short, that was November of 2017 when I started the channel.

Um and what? We're November of 2023 now. Wow. Full circle, right? My phone was just going off. That's what happens when I don't turn my ringer off right? You guys get to hear the ringer going crazy.

So um, you know I I'm all about the big picture. I'm all about trying to eliminate future problems. For instance, on this glycol unit as I repaired this glycol unit. um, you know this.

uh pump that I changed pump and motor when I say pump it's kind of universal. I'm talking about a pump and a motor. But this pump right and motor. You can tell that the motor had been replaced before, but the pump had not.

That was an original pump. It had the banner name on it, that's the manufacturer of the equipment. Um, it was. It was much older than the motor.

It's always best. Usually what kills the motors is the pump starting to gum up. Okay, when the pumps start to gum up. Uh, it makes the motors work harder.

Damages the bearings causes the motors to go out. Okay I Know there's going to be a bunch of people out there. Why don't I change the bearings. It's not practical to change bearings in a motor if it's 5 horsepower or under.

Most of the time, it's not practical to do a bearing replacement, especially on these kind of customers that don't do routine maintenance and aren't maintaining their equipment. Because not only does does it have bad bearings, but it's been overheating for a very long time, so the internals of the motor are going to be damaged. If you ever pull apart a motor, look at it. you'll see everything has just heat, stress, cracks in it and all kinds of stuff, right? So anyways, it's always best when you're working on these glycol units to change the pump and the motor as a set.

And that's why often times I Just call it a pump because it's just a set in my eyes. Okay, we don't ever just change one or the other. We change them both as a set. so we got it back up and running.

We changed the pump motor I Watched the unit come down to temperature I Made sure that the refrigerant charge looked good I Did not put service gauges on this. This unit has a very small refrigerant charge, but it does happen to have a sight glass on it. So judging by how fast I used a lot of Vital Signs I'm not just looking at a sight glass I'm watching the box I turn it back on. You know if I don't see a significant temperature drop I'm talking 20 30 within 20 minutes I start to investigate further.

in this case I saw a significant temperature drop, the sight glass was clear and then eventually we watched the box come down to temperature or the the glycol unit come down to temperature. Now what I did in this situation is often times what'll happen is in between the beer walking because you have the beer walking, where you store the kegs right and then you have um, tap lines run into the kegs and then those tap lines either go up into the attic or down underground depending on whatever situation. I Can't remember how this one runs, but the glycol unit wraps around those tap lines as it goes to the bar whether it be underground or up into the attic and it keeps them cold from point A to point B The Beer Walk can be in point a beer at 34 35 and then you want it to be below 40 as this point out the tap. so the glycol unit supplements that helps to maintain temperatures In this situation, this unit had been down for 2 days so their beer in those lines was just really really warm.

So the customer ended up having to run about three to four pictures of every beer that was on that tap head to clear out the warm beer. otherwise they would had to wait hours and hours and hours for it to come down to temperature. So they ran all that beer through, just dumped it down the drain once we got 40 beer in the system from the beer. Walkin Then yeah, it was just maintaining.

No problem. So everything's good. I Really appreciate you. Uh, making it to the end of the video.

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