Window ac units

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 greytruck

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?"

Neat mine was smaller and no blower motor of course haha. Both of them with ends off was 12lb. I did what was left of the radiators I had I got 280lbs so that would bring the total of clean ac rads to 679lb clean ac rads with 91 acs to go ��. So far I have taken in 29lb num 2, 40lb num 3 wire, 19lb aluminum rads,30lb num 1. With some more num 1 in there somewhere and then all the noodles to pull out haha I'm going to put those in a bucket and see how full it gets from these I have done ��. I still have fan motors and I'm debating to either take compressors in as is or cut em open I'm going to count the tanks to see how many acs I have done some of them didn't have rads on them just the fan motor and compressor I didn't account for that.

Originally Posted by mike1

Neat mine was smaller and no blower motor of course haha. Both of them with ends off was 12lb. I did what was left of the radiators I had I got 280lbs so that would bring the total of clean ac rads to 679lb clean ac rads with 91 acs to go ��. So far I have taken in 29lb num 2, 40lb num 3 wire, 19lb aluminum rads,30lb num 1. With some more num 1 in there somewhere and then all the noodles to pull out haha I'm going to put those in a bucket and see how full it gets from these I have done ��. I still have fan motors and I'm debating to either take compressors in as is or cut em open I'm going to count the tanks to see how many acs I have done some of them didn't have rads on them just the fan motor and compressor I didn't account for that.

I would sell the compressors as is and be done with them. less work you have to do