Sam with Kalos Services and HVAC School does a field demo with the new Hilmor lineset cleaner. The Hilmor lineset cleaner requires you to use nitrogen to force foam pigs through refrigerant lines, cleaning up residual oil and refrigerant as the pigs work through the tubing.
Included in the Hilmor lineset cleaner kit is a threaded fitting, which allows you to use a variety of foam pig sizes depending on the tubing diameter. The Hilmor lineset cleaner also comes with a catch net to collect the foam pigs at the end of the line.
Before cleaning the line set, deburr the copper to give the foam pigs a smooth point of entry. The fittings slide right onto the line, and you can finger-tighten the hose clamp on there. He attaches the lineset cleaner gun by threading it on.
Sam starts with the 3/4" pig, which he slides into the chamber of the gun. Then, he hooks nitrogen up from the tank and discharges the pig by pulling the trigger. The pig comes out at the other end and stays in the catch net. Sam repeats the process with the 3/8" pig through the liquid line, thus cleaning both lines.
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Alrighty, so today we are on a install here: got the air handler we're doing a flush application, so we'll be cleaning out these lines here today we are using the hillmore uh pipe cleaning kit. Here we have our our gun here with nitrogen hooks too tip of our gun. We have this threaded fitting, which allows us to use a variety of sizes and a little box. Here we have our actual foam fittings that we can shoot and clean through the lines different sizes there.

Then we have our little mesh baggie that we stick on the outside catch these on the way out, so we don't lose them and then we can reuse them. We're getting ready to actually use the gun here step. One is we want to de-burr both the copper lines, just use a reamer deburr the inside, so that way um our foam pigs, that's what they're called can slide right in there. These fittings just slide right over.

They have these um hose clamp type deals that you can finger, tighten those just slide right over the copper and then you can finger tighten the hose clamp over the copper, we'll do the uh the three quarter. First, what we're going to do is we're going to take our gun here. So just screwing on like that, this little chamber slides back. It allows us to get our properly sized foam pig here slides into the chamber, and then the chamber closes like so then we take our nitrogen attached to our nitrogen tank and we're gon na screw this bad boy on, like so we're going to turn on our Nitrogen here and we are ready to basically punch it through.

So it's just a matter of pulling this little trigger here like so. The pig should be out of the chamber now gone to our baggie and then we're gon na go on the outside and show you what it looks like from the outside. Okay, we are back outside. I have the bag on both the lines here.

As you can see, the other three-quarter foam had already popped through now we're going to shoot through the 3 8 line. Now i am going to hold on to this just because it does produce quite a force or pressure and then we'll be able to see it come through that line and voila we got the uh three-eighths, the three-quarter. Our lines are clean and we are ready to braise in thanks for watching our video if you enjoyed it and got something out of it. If you wouldn't mind hitting the thumbs up button to like the video subscribe to the channel and click, the notifications bell to be notified when new videos come out, hvac school is far more than a youtube channel.

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