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    The Pookie Monster got to this one!

    The metering device on this one is not allowing enough juice to flow in the evaporator coil.

    It is going to be fun trying to get the access panel off.

    Any suggestions for how to cut through this pile of pookie?
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    It's an upside down world we live in.

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    Big beater screw driver.
    I do a triple evac with nitro to remove non condensables.

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    Takes quite a bit of cussing


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    Quote Originally Posted by BBeerme View Post
    Big beater screw driver.
    Maybe if I can get under it right at the metal the whole blob will pop loose. I can see breaking a bunch of utility blade if I try to cut it.

    I just need to find the screw driver my wife used for gardening.
    It's an upside down world we live in.

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    Utility Knife and scraper. Oh yea, patience. LOL.

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    Hack off the PVC and redo it afterwards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rjk_cmh View Post
    Hack off the PVC and redo it afterwards.
    Thats what i would do, cut the drain loose, take all the screws out the door and rip the door off.

    Straighten it out a little with some linemans before you put it back


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    Quote Originally Posted by rjk_cmh View Post
    Hack off the PVC and redo it afterwards.
    Funny thing about the drain lines. They put nice deep J traps on both primary and secondary. The secondary was vented after the trap, but the primary wasn't. So, there was no access for cleaning the primary.
    It's an upside down world we live in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Goodman View Post
    Funny thing about the drain lines. They put nice deep J traps on both primary and secondary. The secondary was vented after the trap, but the primary wasn't. So, there was no access for cleaning the primary.
    Might as well fix that too.


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    Dremel tool with the little rotary cutter ball
    Nest is POO!!

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    Try a heat gun. Soften it up soze you can pry loose.....

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    I cant remember the last time i took a heat gun or a dremel up in a attic


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    Ok its all coming back to me now... i nearley died but i remembered pancake day was tomorrow at the supply house and it saved my life


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    Quote Originally Posted by Core_d View Post
    i nearley died but i remembered pancake day was tomorrow
    i hate you.
    Nest is POO!!

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    Maybe, use a very sharp wood chisel, to slice down where the Pookie & the Metal meet?

    Then on to the Pancakes.
    Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.


    "You've got to Stand for Something or You'll fall for anything" (A. Tippin)


    Mat_15:24 But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

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    Pancakes? We bickered and moaned to get coffee.

    The 2nd is there to protect the 1st. DTOM

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    Use the serrated blade on a leatherman to cut it.

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    They make cordless dremels. LOL.
    Thakig it apart will be easier than putting it back together.

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    There was actually a screwed on plate under all that pookie. The screws missed the panel behind it. So, I was able to cut along the edge of the plate and pop the panel off.

    Putting the panel back on was the hard part. The Pookie is what was holding it all together.
    It's an upside down world we live in.

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    Told you.

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