Window ac units

Originally Posted by mike1

Right I just put num 2 wire in there to with the tubes. What are dykes ? I know what will come up if I look it up haha. Explain please��

Wire cutters...

Originally Posted by t00nces2

Wire cutters...

Oh those I use those alot for stuff.

I can do 4-5 minimum break down of fan motor wires compressor and dirty rads in 3hrs. Since I can leave the frame mostly intacked.

Originally Posted by mike1

I can do 4-5 minimum break down of fan motor wires compressor and dirty rads in 3hrs. Since I can leave the frame mostly intacked.

I did a couple of more today. One was a smaller window AC. The other was an upright portable AC on wheels

The smaller window ac was about ten minutes to do the teardown. It gets easier as you go along. The more you do ... the easier it gets. You develop a method after awhile.

The upright portable ac took about 3 hours.

Originally Posted by hills

I did a couple of more today. One was a smaller window AC. The other was an upright portable AC on wheels

The smaller window ac was about ten minutes to do the teardown. It gets easier as you go along. The more you do ... the easier it gets. You develop a method after awhile.

The upright portable ac took about 3 hours.

3 hrs hm what did you get on the portable ? Ive never seen one of those. Some of the window ac units I did had some kind of heating element thing ???. I have 6 more to go then I'll have all the acs I got so far broke down. I have 55 in a trailer left and 6 central ac compressors and then 36 acs in another trailer then I'll be done. It's taking me longer than I thought to do 40 ac's haha. I'm going to do 30 at a time instead.

The compressor on the portable was a little bigger but otherwise it's about the same as a window ac. The main reason it took so long was because it was a busy day with customers coming in. All the people who work for a living come in on a Sunday cause it's their only day off. They keep me pretty busy between running the compactor and answering questions about what goes where. The workday goes by fast when you're busy.

I bet you'll be banging those ac's out like nobody's business once you've done a trailer load. The main thing is to stay focused on the task at hand. I've found the less i talk ... the more my work on the bench gets done.

Originally Posted by mike1

Some of the window ac units I did had some kind of heating element thing ???.

Those are called PTAC Units, or an Packaged Thermal Air Conditioner. They are used in aprts, hotels, schools, ect. Pretty much widow Ac unit with a heating coil thats permanently mounted threw the wall, but its still like a window unit with around 80 - 100 screws

Thanks for posting gt. I know they've been around for quite awhile but i always thought they made heat by running the ac in reverse like a heat pump. It's a good day when one learns something new.

Originally Posted by greytruck

Those are called PTAC Units, or an Packaged Thermal Air Conditioner. They are used in aprts, hotels, schools, ect. Pretty much widow Ac unit with a heating coil thats permanently mounted threw the wall, but its still like a window unit with around 80 - 100 screws

That's exactly what I had probably older. I'm going to cut ends off of rads today.

Originally Posted by mike1

That's exactly what I had probably older. I'm going to cut ends off of rads today.

I did a couple ptac units from 1972 last year. those were awesome. they were from an aprt building that use to be a hotel. My contact that seen them (the UPS guy) thought they were mini rooftop units when he text me about them. "What can brown do for you?"

Originally Posted by t00nces2

Wire cutters...

I don't know as it's that important but i damaged my wire cutters by using them to yank the brass out of plug ends. The repeated twisting motion loosened up where the two halves of the wire cutter connect.

I tend to use lineman's pliers or vise grips for the loop ends. Slip joint pliers seem to work okay too. You can use the rounded shape of the head to get a rolling & twisting motion going and yank the loops out of the metal end. Fencing pliers are good for different jobs too.

Originally Posted by hills

I don't know as it's that important but i damaged my wire cutters by using them to yank the brass out of plug ends. The repeated twisting motion loosened up where the two halves of the wire cutter connect.

I tend to use lineman's pliers or vise grips for the loop ends. Slip joint pliers seem to work okay too. You can use the rounded shape of the head to get a rolling & twisting motion going and yank the loops out of the metal end. Fencing pliers are good for different jobs too.

Those look cool. What all does that thing do? Looks like a combination of different tools. I got a guy who is going to take the ac shells in for me and charge me only 20 percent so that's cool. Since we only have a car ��. I can fit 160 lbs of clean rads in the trunk tho haha.

Originally Posted by mike1

Those look cool. What all does that thing do? Looks like a combination of different tools. I got a guy who is going to take the ac shells in for me and charge me only 20 percent so that's cool. Since we only have a car ��. I can fit 160 lbs of clean rads in the trunk tho haha.

I believe it's a tool that they use when they're installing chain link fence. I've never done fence but it's useful for grabbing just about anything putting a yank on it. Sometimes i use one for pulling out copper motor windings. You grab the winding with the pliers part and then used the curved part of the head to pry the windings out.

It's good that you've got someone to do the steel for you. You really need a truck and maybe even a trailer to haul that stuff to the yard. I toss the ac steel into the front bucket of the loader and run it down to the metals pile at work. The pile is getting awfully big these days. It's easily 14 feet high, 20 feet deep, and 60 feet long. All compacted metal. It ought to make for a pretty good load going out the next time the scrap yard comes around to pick up our metals.

Originally Posted by hills

I believe it's a tool that they use when they're installing chain link fence. I've never done fence but it's useful for grabbing just about anything putting a yank on it. Sometimes i use one for pulling out copper motor windings. You grab the winding with the pliers part and then used the curved part of the head to pry the windings out.

It's good that you've got someone to do the steel for you. You really need a truck and maybe even a trailer to haul that stuff to the yard. I toss the ac steel into the front bucket of the loader and run it down to the metals pile at work. The pile is getting awfully big these days. It's easily 14 feet high, 20 feet deep, and 60 feet long. All compacted metal. It ought to make for a pretty good load going out the next time the scrap yard comes around to pick up our metals.

Used for barbed wire, cutting wire, pulling and driving in staples. don't forget the wire stretcher.

Originally Posted by alloy2

Used for barbed wire, cutting wire, pulling and driving in staples. don't forget the wire stretcher.

Neat bet you can pull motor windings out with that.