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For your first video you did a great job. Hollywood better watch out. You have a very still hand.

Hey they pay there bills – thats all that counts (Your the Boss – Right)

Little duck tape and bailing wire (we all had one or two of those)
But 50 other units and bigger fish to fry / etc

Sense there bean counters!!! Approach them with a payback energy contract or something similar – that they may understand!

Might just have to say good by to your ugly step child then

Ya thats in sad shape, but as far as the acme goes we have 1 thats over 35 yrs old have had 1 compressor changed an the condensors..an still runs gr8...

Originally Posted by baub

LOL... There was enough water and dirt mixed up with the ballast, I thought about planting some sunflower seeds!

Sure Sure!! sunflower seeds he says

Twilli says why not

Originally Posted by Executioner

That looked like a ballasted rubber roof that you could get relatively cheap some rubber roof material,adhesive and such to make a small "pool" around it and pump the water back in, then you don't have to lift it or patch it.

LOL... There was enough water and dirt mixed up with the ballast, I thought about planting some sunflower seeds!

That looked like a ballasted rubber roof that you could get relatively cheap some rubber roof material,adhesive and such to make a small "pool" around it and pump the water back in, then you don't have to lift it or patch it.

new camera time

Originally Posted by PaysonHVAC

Did I hear you say (in the video) That it was 50 years old??? WOW!


You should get a YOUTUBE account. Then we could trade comments back and forth on our videos. Your video came out pretty good. Are you using a Kodak? Sometimes I use my Palm Treo, but my good videos are from my Kodak.


And we though THIS cooling tower needed replacing soon, as the catwalk is rotted out to where we are standing on the ground and some of the internal cross bracing has rusted loose as well, making it fun to climb up to the motors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0uPmxLQpY

OK so I am thinking about getting a video camera any suggestions?

Funny Follow-up...

Two days after I finished the fix, I get a call from the maintenance supervisor, no cooling on the second floor. I can see the steam coming out of the phone, this guy is so PO'd.
So I scoot over, find the chiller is just humming along. Go up to the second floor, and find one of the two main thermostats is set on heat, and two convector blowers were turned off.
Unfortunately, I couldn't give the supervisor the news in person, just left a voice mail. I would have loved to hear or see his reaction!

Originally Posted by cracker

Here we have water police......They look at every commercial buildings water bill, and a computer will kick out a building with a higher number than what was allow for.
They will shut of the water and make the owner tract the problem, or they enter the building and find It them selfs.

And you say it's a FREE country?

You pay the water bill, but you can only buy so much water or we will cut you off...... boy I'm just PROUD to be an american.

BTW, I like the repair. I would have never thought about going that route, but then again, I am a residential technician who knows nothing about these type of systems. Pretty cool stuff. Keep up the good work!

With all that fresh water always coming into that tower, does that fan ever run?

Originally Posted by baub

From Cracker-
So we can take It that the, discharge water goes down the drain, a one shot deal??...

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That's right... two things we have in Western New York... lots of water and A$$hole politicians. Vote for Hillary... get her out of New York and let the rest of the country suffer with us.

Here we have water police......They look at every commercial buildings water bill, and a computer will kick out a building with a higher number than what was allow for.
They will shut of the water and make the owner tract the problem, or they enter the building and find It them selfs.

Delta T

You have to do a Wire Nut Reunion Tour!

From Cracker-
So we can take It that the, discharge water goes down the drain, a one shot deal??...

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That's right... two things we have in Western New York... lots of water and A$$hole politicians. Vote for Hillary... get her out of New York and let the rest of the country suffer with us.

Whatyamean there's nothin left to tar on! There is always something left to tar on even if it's one rusted bolt!

You can actually build a new control tower out of cold tar paste stuff...cause it's gonna melt in the sun..but that's not the point.

And Mrs. Wirenut asks about you. She's on the loose and looked for a good man to connect with.

I was going to suggest that you recommend to them to set the cooling tower in a small kiddie pool with a pond pump to move the water that leaked out back up into the unit. If they said yes you could have "accidentally" set it back down a little too hard and had the entire thing collapse into a pile of rust which conveniently would be contained within the pool and would be easy to clean up but the route you chose works OK too LOL.

So we can take It that the, discharge water goes down the drain, a one shot deal??......Here If the local powers to be saw that, they would shut down the building, Water Is to expenses here In OZ........Nice video, post more.......

Update

First thanks to those who tried to help- Delta T, there is nothing left you can paint tar to. Note the patches in the photo done years ago. Maybe if you are still friends with the "wire nut people", they could repair from the inside!

gbfromsd - They just won't replace it, done deal.

So I gave them 4 choices, they took install a new water regulating valve, and feed in city water, one time to waste. When I cut out the old piping, the scale I saw freaked me out. I was really concerned about how the interior (water side) of the condenser was.

However, when I fired up the system, the heat exchange in the condenser was excellent. I was able to get a water discharge temp of 105 deg at a 235# discharge pressure. The water meter barely moves.

I took Payson's advise and set up a YouTube account. Did a short video, If you want to take a look, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyTzFUBIbB4

you might try folding the cost of it into a project they have on another of their buildings. swing a deal, charge a little more on job X and get this one fixed.

I don't know if this helps but I had one something like that with the same type of customer who knew his building was up for renewal. So I ended up draining the whole thing and painting the basin and outside with tar. It worked for another season, as I can remember. But that was way over 20 years ago. Good luck.