That sucks.
To be honest.....I don't check to set screws on new condenser fan on a startup. Maybe I should.
The only set screws I normally check on a startup or commission are sheaves and couplers.
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Company installed this york split about 2 months ago i come to find the problem is the fan blade fell off and damaged the O.D coil in multiple spots losing the charge, this is my 2nd summer doing service and i thought this was just out of the ordinary.
That sucks.
To be honest.....I don't check to set screws on new condenser fan on a startup. Maybe I should.
The only set screws I normally check on a startup or commission are sheaves and couplers.
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well they should be set tight enough from the factory, but it was the easiest O.d coil change ever, but the customer had to wait for the coil to be ordered.
Hopefully you turned it the proper way when you installed the new one.
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[QUOTE=ascj;13607831]That sucks.
To be honest.....I don't check to set screws on new condenser fan on a startup. Maybe I should.
The only set screws I normally check on a startup or commission are sheaves and couplers.
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thats gotta be a 1 in 10,000 occurrence with a split condenser. see it constantly on new rtu sheaves and couplers though......
You have to pay your due's before you pay the rent!
I was wondering why geographical location mattered, LOL. NEW York, not New York. Thought it was going to be a copper theft thread.
We dont steal much copper here in NY, not much money in it. R22 is the lastest craze.
Guys are stealing 22?
R22 is insanely expensive in California right now
I was only joking about them stealing R22. But its only a matter of time I'm sure.
Have any of you guys notice that the bottles the supply houes are carrying are smaller? Just bought a new exspesive one when i was in a pinch and it had less refer in it then the bottles from last season. Not only has the price gone up but the bottles have less in them.
Thats crazy thats the fan blade came off on a new unit. Thats cause she didn't have time to rust so she would stay on.
I think the unit was made a day before a holiday or on a Friday.
Can't tell from the picture, but it seems Mr.York will be buying a microchannel coil also!
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Lost the point here! Factory can not be expected to do their job. Set screws nuts,bolts etc, All must be checked before startup,ALL! I can't say I havent been lazy and not checked in my old days but listen to this. Large manufacturing plant, 16 20t rtu's-14 3to 10t rtu's 3 splits. My startup sheets specify set screws tight.Sheets read all setsrews tight. Had to go out after several no cooling/aiflow calls and meet plant managment,walk the equipment- and fan blades are off,set screws are missing,keys are missing,sheaves are spun shut, shafts are cut, on and on . The moral of the story is: The person who doesn't check those set screws-walks (and he did).
Damn phosgene
In another lifetime, when I worked in the Oil Field....
we had a startup on a big Waukesha natural gas compressor.
It was driven by a caterpillar engine with a 7' solid aluminum fan blade on the front. About 5 mins. after the mechanic and I fired it up, the fan blade walked off the shaft.
I happened to be standing on the side of the engine when a section of the fan came flying through the 1/4 plate housing on the radiator just in front of me.
We both had the shakes for awhile after that....
Never ass u me...
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