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Compressor Replacement with Difficult Customer
Non-Tech Customer Sealed System - Zoom Repair
Part 1
Removing the Compressor

Part 2
Installing the Compressor

Take heed to this, Techs that are still wrestling with R12 systems
when you don't have to be, and can just upgrade to a R134a
Compressor, and convert the sytem to R134a, with a slight
bit of knowledge and work to do so. Get with the times, and stop
making it more difficult for customers, by putting R12 compressors
in, when you need to be converting the system to R134a!
This was an R12 system, that this normal customer converted to an
R134a system, with my guidance, which I have been doing
since 1991, and NEVER HAD A SYSTEM SLUDGE UP!
Despite the LIES about converting R12 to R134a, that
started back in 1991 when R12 was being banned,
that it would cause the system to "sludge up",
which is ABSOLUTELY FALSE AND NONSENSE,
started by the appliance manufacturers, to force new sales,
SubZero being the biggest offender of this and telling customers
it cannot be fixed, that they have to buy a New $10-$15 Grand
unit, and get rid of the older R12 systems, and get a new
refrigerator with R134a in it. There is NO NEED TO GET RID
OF AN R12 SYSTEM, AND DO NOT LET THE TECH
CHANGE OUT THE COMPRESSOR AND PUT ANOTHER
R12 COMPRESSOR IN IT, WHEN R12 IS BANNED, AND
THEY ARE STRUGGLING TO FIND REPLACEMENT
FREON THAT WILL WORK WTH THE R12 OIL IN THE
R12 COMPRESSOR, WHEN YOU ARE SIMPLY BEING
IGNORANT, UNEDCUATED AND DOING
THE CUSTOMER A DISSERVICE!
You can see how patient I am, despite his wanting to
continuously do his own thing, not listen to what
I am instructing him is the proper way to
do the repair, but after 11 torcherous hrs,
we got the compressor replaced, and cooling again.
This customer did not have any of the tools to
do the job, but bought them and I taught him
how to properly use them, to get the job done.
He did not have anyone in his are that would do the
repair, or wanted to rip him off, and severely over-charge him!
Normally, if he would have listened to me and done as I
was instructing him to do, he would have gotten this repair done
in 2-3 hours, which is what it usually takes a tech to do it in,
or less. Usually, customers listen, but this person seemed
to think there were better and easier ways to do things,
than what I was instructing him to do, but then found
out after wasting hours of trying to do things his way
that his way didn't work, so he did it my way. Very difficult
to stay patient on my end, but I did the entire time.