THE WALK IN WONT GET COLD 

Using That Magnet Like A Pro!🤣

"That sensor looks special." LOL! Cracked me up

I feel like Chris could make a parody video called “small picture diagnosis,” where he performs all the wrong practices he tells others to avoid.

1:00 I think they have a roof leak. Time to check the fire sprinkler system LOL

A few things; 1) I liked that you made sure the direction on the solenoid was correct and you sized it correctly 2) Why didn't you wrap the metering device with a wet rage or use wet rag product? 3) I like that you cut out the filter drier This video is amazing, so many things that you did great. Keep it up

Thats crazy water leaking from the roof, I thought it had a water cooling thing for inside that pannel! Nice vid chris

Good video.

Whenever you get the short "summer" hair cut, my eyes are immediately drawn to your RU-vid logo. Do us long time fans a solid. Give us a little history lesson about your logo. When and how you came up with it. Any details you think may be fun to talk about. Personally, I think it's a testament to your consistency. That may seem trivial, but I believe your customers, aware or not, depend on it more than they realize. Not only them but any of your apprentices benefit from it too. 😁😎✌🏻✌🏻👍🏻👍🏻

good job as always enjoy your videos i sold my hvac company and retired two years ago

Someday your channel is going to have millions of subscribers! Keep doing what your doing and your going to get there. You are my #1 favorite channel to watch and you are amazing!

Hey Chris, you did a great job brazing in such a confined space. Personally, I would have put some sort of heat shielding for the TXV to help prevent issues. As there is always a small amount of oil present and the TXV is a mechanical device, limiting heat to it will prevent any oil present changing its nature. Synthetic oil can become like glue when heated. Also, is there a fishtail nozzle or head you can use on your brazing torch for more precise application of heat to pipework? (The automotive industry found out the hard way how synthetic lubricants can trash engines in certain situations because the synthetic lubricant turned into a 'glue' and didn't just burn off like a mineral oil would.)

Always like watching your stuff

I love your vids. I would like to become a hvac tec when I grow up and all your videos help me know what is what. Thanks for the vids keep it up.

Good job Chris......

Matching solenoid size to txv size important. Also solenoid should be outside end panel imo. Would be nice to have a manual stem too.

Thanks

Good advice like always I learn a lot from you.!

Great video. Thank you for sharing

awesome content and information as usual!

Great job. Thanks for video 🙌👍👌😊🍀

Thanks. For. The video Good stuff has always

Nice vid 😎

True boss 😊

Great job Chris. Time for that equipment to go.

I love ur vids

Yoo im usualy late to the party. Im lookin forward to watching this one 😂

I think youre brave to unsweat the joints when the machine is on the roof, I used to do it until one valve was full of oil in the lineset it was like napalm in the cooler i was lucky not to get it in my face so after that I always cut pipes when the machine is on the roof😁

I always cut the valve body right at the brass w dikes to get some pull room and get the valve body out the way to get torch around the pipe better Bro no wet rag on txv or solenoid..😮 That's never an option

Hi there from Compton CA

Why did you not wet rag the TXV? Just asking from a past service Guy who now does controls only for the last 15 years. Cool to watch your videos as it brings back my past in service. Keep up the awesome work.

No wet cloth for soldering? I did it of course, but you risk the o'ring from the SV or even worse you can burn the thermostatic element of the TXV.

The lack of grease in the bearing leads to less drag allowing the fan to free spin. Until it gets rusty that is.

I **might** have considered letting the solenoid valve slide IF, and only if, it actuated reliably after "exercising" it a few times. You couldn't even get a 10% success rate fiddling with the magnet, so obviously the right call to get them limping along for now. We've been having problems maintaining safe food storage temps on the top of our Delfield sandwich station - but that most likely stems from the 4 AM to 2 PM staff leaving the lids open, plus our Franchise Owner's insistence that the HVAC system be set to 78°F in the summer to save electricity. Everything below that top level is 33-34°F, which is below the minimum temperature, so even with the four slices in the power cable's outer insulation, a drawer that doesn't close fully, and drawer seals that always pop out of their "track," not to mention the lids themselves haven't been mounted to the unit for at least twelve years because the parts are lost (they just sit loosely on top), it seems to be working just fine - it simply can't keep up with the restaurant's ambient temperatures and a string of Managers who refuse to enforce closing the lids when not preparing food. I'm the store's Food Safety "Not-C," I won't allow this on my shift. Oh, we have two zones for our HVAC, one for the back/office, the other for lobby and cook line. Both remote temperature sensors are in the lobby, because that's what we get for spending over $1M in "renovations." (They might not even be connected, since the renovation crew destroyed the store's Muzak system wiring, surveillance camera wiring, fire alarm wiring, and burglar alarm wiring, which all had to be repaired months after reopening.) Each HVAC register was dripping condensation from it today, we don't have enough "Wet Floor" signs to put under them all! Had to put a bucket under one for some time, as it went from dripping to a constant trickle. Reminder, because I cannot stress this enough: OVER $1M SPENT, every other store in the renovation was completed long past its scheduled time; ours was complete ahead of schedule. Every other store's renovation blew away the budget, ours somehow came in under budget. I think we can deduce why. We make the most profit out of all the other stores within our franchise zone, our sales every summer shatter the sales from the previous year, but because we're in a small town of 3,400 residents (with 20-25k commuters passing through daily, more in the summer as we're on a major route to several beaches) we get the short end of the stick all the time. On the plus side, our fluorescent lighting fixtures aren't filling up with condensate anymore, so maybe they got the ducting fixed? 🤞 We'll see, the summer is just beginning. I may be pessimistic and cynical, but I'm rarely wrong. 🤪

You did the best you could with what you had to work with. Thats the name of the game....text book is a fallacy and sounds great.....seldom is realistic. 🫡🫡🫡🫡

I know you started this channel as training videos for your crew and I was just curious how many of your employees still watch your channel? I mean I'm not in ac repair but I love your videos

Chris. Getting a General Contractor to install the box is the worst thing you can do. They have no clue on how to properly put a box together. If it has a floor such as in the freezer I would use vinyl asphalt tile to level the floor, because we know the GC can never get a flat and level concrete floor. The boxes I installed were mostly Vollrath and Bally. Generally Bohn on the refrigeration equipment. I would hang the coils and set the condensing unit. I would work with a local "Frigeration" contractor to run the piping. The the local Frigeration contractor would then do any service after that as I was gone on another job in another town or state. I might do upwards of 30 installs a year.

When you pull a vacuum, you are suppose to close the suction valve. the compressor valves always leak a bit,especially in a vacuum.Also if you close the leaving side,no need for a drier.hope that helps.new evap.

any updates on the home system rebuild? video 7 you said there where still things you wanted to do.

1 minute ago? I don't think I've ever been this early

I am actually maybe thinking of exploring this filed, but in Ottawa. What is your advice ? 21:52

still haven't peeled the plastic protective film off the meter, rofl!

Another 💣 @$$ video 😂

Am I crazy? Parker/Sporlan RULES on TXVs. But I seriously think Emerson/Copeland stomps then hard on filter driers, LL solenoid valves, etc. I know sponsors are important but with the exception of TXVs I really could not care less about Sporlan parts at all.

Chris I got a 3 phase power wit high leg got scroll compressor , just wanna verify if the high leg goes on the Run terminal ??

would it be ok if you just replace the valve stem on the solenoid valve opposed to replacing the whole valve?

Does your shop have tuning sledgehammer for solenoid valves? It could be handy in those situations, as I see it

How do you like the fieldpiece hoses?

you could have relocated the valve just outside the evaporator and made it easier to work with.

I am not in the industry either repair or the restaurant industry but I would have to imagine replacing a box is a major undertaking would they have to shut down the place for a couple days?

Txv so close & hard to tell dark tight spaces but did you heat sink Txv on un sweat or re sweat

Big picture

Condenser fan motors are ball bearings or bushings?

You crack me up, have no gloves, and use the braze rod till you can't hold it anymore.

Can the drier be the problem to an iced up suction line?

That roof needs cleaning -- urgently. There is widespread rubbish.

Sir i want to buy your sporlan magnet for manualy use how to buy...????

I heard math and comm 1-2 are involved.

lots of little leaks might as well be the same as a large leak, right?

Was the water just melting ice?

Solenoid should be in vertical position

So when we going to get another update on the house unit ?

Who else thinks RLS press fittings are going to become the norm?

Everything about low boy coils suck. Dropping the pan being the worse.

Hey Chris, @ HVACR not easy being cheesy. I like your podcast/social media, looking thru some comments/reply??.I guess some of your customers,family and friends are still checking in on you. When you were young, did you and your friends have eaten pizza at Chuck E Cheese. Or did you go out hunting with a man Dick Chenney. Do you still have a back bone made of steel. If so, then you still may have some "Big Dick" Chenney qualities. Love you buddy, you be safe out there.

The walk-in won't get cold because Chris messed with it and broke it once again lol i had to dude just busting ya chops as usual.

I always thought solenoid valves need to be installed with stem pointing vertically.

I’ll forgive you this time on your soldering technique as you did not have much space with this one, but there’s room for improvement.

Never seen so much Dirt and Debris on a Roof you Work on. It’s Unbelievable how much Junk gets up on the Roof and spreads ALL over the place. 🤔👎

2025 am i in the future? Or is it just me?

Brazing with no soundtrack? Come on now.