All right, we're back! Fifth Annual Symposium and I am happy to share with you guys another table some awesome stuff on display out here. You guys have come out again to support what we've done. This isn't your first time out here and I appreciate that they're back again to actually support education for the trades and what we're doing. which I really appreciate.

So uh, tell me what do you have? What do you do? Why are you here? So I'm Mallerie and this is Jim Hi hi Jim Jim From Sportland We are here we're from Sportland and today we got Zoom Lock push and Zoom Lock Max with us. Okay, so both of these are going to be be braze Free solutions for you out in the field approved for today's refrigerants and the high pressures that we see in our industry. So Braze Free has been around for a while in the plumbing World Pro Press Shark Bite but now we're bringing it to the HVAC World Okay, so here we got Zoom Lock Max It's our press to connect fitting. You're going to use a tool and just set Jaws to crimp the fitting onto the pipe.

Okay, this uh tool itself. The Jaws are going to crimp once before, on and after the O-ring so that's a three-point press ensuring a leak free seal. Every time those are the fittings themselves, you can see that oing inside and there's a tube stop in there as well. so when you go to slide your tube on, it'll stop itself.

But we also have a depth gauge which we'll show in a second about how that works. Okay, so that's Zoom Lock Max and then Zoom Lock Push. We'll touch on while we're here. Zoom Lock Push Push is our push to connect fitting.

No way. Yep, Crazy, right? Very similar to Shark Bite Over Plumbing right? So same sort of concept. Installation is the same for the two. Obviously, you're pressing this and pushing that.

but cleaning up the pipe is going to be the same so we'll go through that. Okay, uh, but yeah. Zoom Lock Push: Pretty crazy PSI Rating on Zoom Lock Push 870 PSI Working pressure Wow, that's pretty awesome. Okay, so then uh, like, how is it As far as like long-term durability, have you have been able to test it for long term, see how it holds up? Yeah.

So generally we say for all of the Zoom Lock fittings, you know it's pretty much the lifespan of your system. We don't anticipate that you'll have any issues once you do an install. We're so confident in the product. Zoomlock Max has a warranty of 15 years and Zoom Lock Push has a 5 to 10 year warranty so we don't anticipate a lot of issues as long as it's installed correctly.

Okay, all right. so uh, show us how to install correctly. Awesome! Jim You got a pipe for us here today. Look at there excellent piece of tubing.

You're so helpful. Go! I Appreciate that they should. They should start paying. You should I'm doing it for free.

Yeah, so first things first. we got our pipe. What we want to do is we want to make sure we're cleaning up the pipe really well. The one thing about braze free fittings is it's all about that O-ring inside.

That's what's giv us our leak free seal. So if we have any sort of burs on our fitting, that's going to or on our pipe, that's going to slice through our o-ring and totally compromise that seal for us. So cleaning it up is really important. This is a pre-cut pipe.

If I had just cut it I would want to make sure I'm going to ream the inside and the outside getting rid of the burds, cleaning up with scotchbrite. Then we're going to take our death gauge I was talking about earlier. You want to mark it for us? Why not? I Can't imagine not doing that for you. Thank you so much.

Look at that. I Guess overkilled. Yeah. I Just kind of got crazy.

Keep going. Thank you, thank you. We got that. Yeah.

I Draw a mustache on you. No thank you I appreciate that. Um, and then simple as that. Once we've done the prep work, we've made sure we don't see any fine lines.

Any sort of lines go in parallel with your pipe. That's where you're going to have leaks, right? So that's what we're looking for, All right. And then all you do is you just push it on and then we will crimp it so we can see it went up to that line. Does it stop itself when it does stop itself? So the marking is to make sure you get far enough.

It's not to stop you from going too far, exactly, so you don't have to worry about going too far. It'll just reassure you that it's in the right place. That makes sense. And then we're going to take it in our tool here.

I'm going to open the jaws now. This crimps right on the O-ring So scary tool. It is a little intimidating, right? Yeah, right. But uh, it crimps right on the O-ring So very similar to Pro press if you've been working with that before, so no confusion there.

All right. So then you just hold the trigger and it'll give out on its own. And just like that, we have a braze free. Lea Free seal.

Don't put anything in there you don't want. Okay, that's the triple. So the these two sides and on the middle and on the middle part. Okay, Wow.

Three three presses on there. Okay, nice. Yep. and then, uh.

push. Lock's pretty self-explanatory Yep, you just have to clean it up and clean it up and push it on. Okay, just don't put anything in here that you ever want to get back out, right? Good point. That's our rule of thumb.

Yeah, that makes sense. So we have two different styles of push we have. You have to mark the same like the depth just to have the depth gauge as well. Okay, team, Lock Push also has a stop in there as well.

Okay, so you'll feel it when you hit that you stop. but it's going to reassure you that it's all in place. Yeah I Just know, like 90% of Tchs uh, are going to mark it three times and then after that, push it until they feel it stop. They're going to know where it is exactly good.

But when you're learning the tool, yeah, you want to be able to mark it and know you got it right for sure. So Zoom Lock Push We have two different styles. We have our optimize which is going to be our non- removable style. Then we have a removable style.

Okay, so the removable style is great for times where you know you might want to service it. You don't want to cut your line. Every time we have a set of keys that you can use to remove it. So on our removable Styles you'll see that there's like a little plastic bit that sticks up there.

Oh yeah, Mhm. and so the key will p on and it'll release that no way. Yeah, so that's how that one works. and this also is not going to leak and it's also rated up to 870.

PSI Wow, Yeah, pretty wild. that's crazy. So that one in your hand has a flare on the other side. So really great for Mini Split applications.

And then our non- removable style is going to be the one that doesn't have a plastic lip and this one you'd have to cut out of the system. So different options. So uh, what are some of the uh Skeptics that come across the table here at the the Symposium saying Anybody asking questions? Oh yeah, we get lots of questions. Most like the first thought that comes to my mind is vibration.

Yep, if your units run over time, like is this going to vibrate loose? If I have a unit that's a little bit Mhm? Maybe it wasn't secured to the PAD as well as the next unit. It's fair. Yeah. So we've done extensive uh, vibration testing on all of the fittings themselves, so we do not consider vibration to be any sort of issue for these fittings.

Um, the biggest question we get is, how is this going to? How does this really hold 870? PSI Um, and it's a big jump to go. From brazing to then thinking you can just push on a fitting. It's a big jump in your mind. Yeah, it is.

it is. but it feels a little too good to be true, right? Exactly. But we've done a lot of testing on it, so we're here to say it is okay. It is that good.

That's awesome. We built a fixture in the lab here a while back and it had all put together with these Zoom lock fittings and we're running it for over 6 months with uh 410A an old old refrigerator. Yeah, we forgot to break. We forgot to crimp one of the figs and it still and it didn't leak.

Wow. Kind of pinned together with the way we had the tubing configured pressure. we noticed something wasn't quite right. We had you know line was starting to bend a little bit cuz it was starting to slip off the end.

But it wasn't crimped at all. so it was just the O-ring holding it. Wow! and it was seeing pressures up to 600 650 PS But we do recommend crimping. It's a good.

We do recommend Crimping Yeah. I'm not suggesting that you don't I Hear you? No, just saying awesome Cool. Well the other thing that comes up when we do test this configuration. uh, when we take it to failure fitting doesn't break.

the O-ring doesn't give away, but the tubing will burst M Like well, depending on the size like something like this, might be 3,000 PSI before it fails. but it won't be the fitting, it won't be the O-ring It will be the tubing almost every time. Yeah, and there is. There is a lot of issues going on with cheap copper right now, people buying cheap copper and having leaks and stuff like that.

So I get that? How's it going So far as far as people stopping in and and uh, how, how are you guys enjoying the Symposium It's been a great day. Well, like I said I don't have anything else to do so to be here, you know, nice weather we're outside. You guys do a great job putting this on. Had lots of uh customers for the gloves early this morning.

It was a little nippy. it was a little cold today we gave away those. We have a lot of interest in this because you know, quite frankly, there's a lot of techs that either don't want to brace, don't know how to brace, or it's inconvenient to brace, or there's concern over fire hazard. Sure.

And so this is something. if I was a tech back out in the field I'd want it in my toolbox. Yeahh cool. I Like that.

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