"Just go there and see if you can get it running"

[dougfamous]

So, the boss calls and says "Hey, the A/C is out at one of the salesman's houses, can you go get it running?". I drive over there and see this lovely unit:



Evidently a giant chunk of ice fell on it over the winter the year before, and he "fixed" it with some angle iron. The blade was bent though, and it finally shook enough to shear off the mounting bolts and drop the motor (still spinning) into the condenser. Whoops.

I put a new condenser in the next day.

[garychance]

have seen one just like that, but they used 2 standing s strap's, instead of angle iron. LOL! it vibrated so bad, i thought it was take off! (I was scared to stand by it when it was running) I replaced the unit as well.

[Nuclrchiller]

Salesmen and tools....

[Timscoffeetech]

Salesmen and tools....

lol yah

[xero328]

Seen this often. South Florida is full of hacks. I plan to go over to a set of buildings owned by a property management company that gave me stomach pains daily for three months. To this day they call me from new phone numbers trying to rehire me. I will NOT Band-Aid for them again. Callbacks were due to their budgetary constraints, repeated leaks that could not be fixed due to age, location and severity, and I fully disclosed that I am not responsible for the units if they don't want to spend the money to do it right. And so I only patched half of what I saw, and the rest I got calls on from their other guy that didn't seem to care. I will post photos. Well, if I can get over there and not have the tenants and property manager run over to me begging to come back.