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You bastard, good find.
oooh, i happen to have that same compressor (i believe) in my 6000BTU a/c unit. now i just gotta get my parents permission to rip that thing apart. lol
when i said that compressor i meant the LG one from the very beginning of this thread
Whats this peircing valve or something everyones been talking about?
A peircing valve is a valve you can add to a line without cutting and rebrasing that gives you a threaded connection to add or remove frion.;)
Okay tommorow im getting an ac unti from fats for free so grats to him for his kidness. Will do alot of :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: on sunday aus time so thats when pics arrive.
Wish me luck. Might ask a few questions during the days progress too...
Decided to ditch me old project :)
Where can I find Hercules Cryo-tek? I dropped by Home Depot and Lowes, and they don't seem to carry it. Someone please help! I'm in the Southern California area by the way.Quote:
Originally posted by vlad
If you go to homedepot look for this instead of auto antifreeze. its way better. and cheaper too!
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...?postid=276439
Home depot does have it. that's where i get it, Look in the heating area near the display of boilers & furneses.Its easy to miss & sometimes theyre out. ask someone. Its around $9/gall. ;)
Alright, I'll go back and look. I hate the people that work there -- I swear they don't know what they have and don't have. I'm usually better off looking for it myself!Quote:
Originally posted by vlad
Home depot does have it. that's where i get it, Look in the heating area near the display of boilers & furneses.Its easy to miss & sometimes theyre out. ask someone. Its around $9/gall. ;)
Time for another person to jump into this madness of a thread. I have tossed around pelt/direct die/chiller for a couple weeks reading every bit I could on each subject. And so here I am.
Had a 6,000 btu A/C sitting on my back porch for almost 2 years. I tore into it to get to the goodies and left a small mess.
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/mess.jpg
Here is the unit:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/unit.jpg
The numbers:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/label.jpg
Compressor:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/compressor.jpg
Evap:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/width.jpg
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/height.jpg
Running to make sure it works: (evap fan still attached)
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/accum.jpg
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/evap.jpg
this is it for now (same old boring stuff). going to go grab some tools and toys. want to have the resevoir running by the afternoon.
round 1 of supply fetching:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/supplies.jpg
still have to go find myself a fitting cooler
You got that right. Most of dont know their as*es from their elbows. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by acumo
Alright, I'll go back and look. I hate the people that work there -- I swear they don't know what they have and don't have. I'm usually better off looking for it myself!
Thats the same size i used here and it got me down to -43c. I used a 5gal egloo. Good luck it should be a good one.:toast:Quote:
Originally posted by Calab
Time for another person to jump into this madness of a thread. I have tossed around pelt/direct die/chiller for a couple weeks reading every bit I could on each subject. And so here I am.
Had a 6,000 btu A/C sitting on my back porch for almost 2 years. I tore into it to get to the goodies and left a small mess.
The numbers:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/label.jpg
this is it for now (same old boring stuff). going to go grab some tools and toys. want to have the resevoir running by the afternoon.
thanks vlad, now I have something for comparison;) I'll be sticking mine in the same as pimpsho and mrnuke, it's a 3.25gal cooler. speaking of which.....
the cooler in all it's glory:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/cooler.jpg
todays excursion:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/receipts.jpg
i had a pipe bender on my shopping list, neither home depot or menard's carried them. instead of looking harder, i figured i could just bend it by hand. well, needless to say, i kinked it. there is 1 kink just before entering the evap (not a bad one) and one in the middle of the copper (this one doesn't look so good). what should i do? should i reinforce it somehow, or should i just be aware and more careful, and just try to finish getting the evap into the cooler, and the cooler in it's resting place?
i actually planned on buying a new ac unit to do this, and at the last minute i remembered this 6100 btu out on my back porch. if i end up having to purchase a new unit, it's not a big loss, i budgeted for it anyways, would be a bonus though if i didn't have to wait till monday to get a new unit.
kink entering evap:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/evap_kink.jpg
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/po...nk_closeup.jpg
kink in middle of line:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/kink.jpg
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/kink_closeup.jpg
after waiting a while, i slowly gained bravery, so i took a second shot at it....
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/bad_kink_1.jpg
http://www.speakeasy.org/~obrienp/post/bad_kink_2.jpg
looks like i'll be getting that new ac unit after all. going to widen my search for a 1/2 pipe bender.
also, is there any easy way to tackle those U loops with a bender? that's the only area that gave me trouble. trying to straighten 3 U loops is what caused the kinks.
the kink shown above is a result of the vap being turned clockwise about 60ish dergrees, then putting just a tad to much down pressure when it was in the cooler. it was unavoidable in the way i tackled the process.
Looks like a mad cooler if you can fix them kinks up so mysterious way.
have you cranked her on yet to see how she is doing? looking good bro!
i'm sure it would be workable if i had the skill level. but this was kind of a sacrificial unit anyways, not to down about losing the unit. the only thing i'm down about is being at a stand still on this project :brick:
btw, i found vice grips and some of the padding i ripped out from the inside to suite really well in preventing further kinking in the middle of the line. to bad i didn't have a second et of grips, might have gotten away with it then.
Quote:
Originally posted by Pimpsho
have you cranked her on yet to see how she is doing? looking good bro!
i guess i'll go crank her up, i'd imagine i'm going to impede performance with the kink being right there tho, plus it's still not completely seated in the cooler, will take some more finagling, but at this point i have nothing to loose.
thats same as mine bro looks like your ac unit is "A" okaay! and i also have the same thermomitor as you....mickey mouse said that these thermomitors start trippin out at about -25c....
Tweaking time :)
Those kinks can be straightened out with a flaring block if not too severe.
pimpsho, good to hear i just over reacted, but today i couldn't even get the compressor to kick on. i played around with it for a bit and even gave it a kick out of frustration, but no luck. i am leaning towards picking up a new unit tommorrow. maybe build a insulated plexi glass reservoir and insulate it to no end so i can fit it all back in the original housing and mount it in the window. the thermometers lcd has it's quarks now since taking that -26 reading.
gary, i've used a flaring block a few times on a pipes end before installing them in a wall and running electrical wires thru them. i've never used it in other situations. is there a different tool for a setup like this? seems like it would difficult to get a flare tool in there with the tight radius bend.