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If you are still replacing R12 compressors with R12 compressors...

STOP & LEARN HOW TO PROPERLY UPGRADE R12 SYSTEMS TO R134A
They DO NOT SLUDGE, as all the LIES of 28 years have told you!
-->Convert R12 Systems to R134a Assistance<--

Dishwasher Leaking/dishes filmy, dirty after washing Zoom Repair with Customer to watch, click here This person had a typical leaking dishwasher that is not the fault of the dishwasher at all, and we see all too often. Too much detergent, often mistaken as calcium buildup by techs and customers, that is caused by the new detergents that don't have phosphates in them anymore, due to the Obama Administration removing the phosphates, to save a tiny fish. The detergents now for washing machines and dishwashers, comes in the sealed pods, thatadvertise being so much more concentrated, and they are supposed to clean much better. WRONG! They are 4X to 12X or higher concentration so whta this means, is that you are washing with 4 to 12 times MORE DETERGENT! If you are washing with 4 to 12 times MORE DETERGENT, what do you expect t happen, it builds up and by the end of the wash cycle, there is o much detergent left in the machine, that it RINSES WITH DETERGENT, NOT CLEAN WATER! This builds up rock hard in te dishwasher, and plugs up all the tubing, pump, wash arm, etc, and with so much detergent, it foams over the front of the door, at the bottom, where there is no need for a gasket, and leaks on the floor! STOP USING THESE CONCENTRATED DETERGENT PODS! GO Ack to powder cascade, and use very little, AFTER YOU CLEAN OUT THE DISHWASHER WITH MANY BOTTLES OF GLISTEN!	Whirlpool Refrigerator Iced up No Cool Female Tenant Zoom Repair to watch, click here This is a tenant who I helped to fix her refrigerator that was icing up, caused by the door not closing all the way. She did a great job staying with me in the repair and diagosis, and we worked together to solve the no cool situation, and fix the problem that caused it to start with. This shows that anyone, no matter how young, as this girl was, can fix their own appliance, with my help on Zoom, if they stay with me, and listen to what needs to be done. She did a Great Job!

SubZero Drain, Gasket and Evaporator Repair Diagnosis Customer Zoom Repair to watch, click here This refrigerator had multiple problems, that started with the customer ordering a gasket, that he thought was causing all the problems. After speaking with him, I told him there was more than one things going on, not related to each other. We went on Zoom, and I identified with him following my directions, that the gasket is not the problem but due to it's age, should be replaced, but that he had a drain that was plugged up, and also was low on freon, and needed the evaporator, heat exchanger and compressor replaced, to get his 20 yr old unit back to new condition! He didn't have to go buy a new unit for over $10 Grand, as he was told, but using my Restoration Sealed System Kits I have available, he could save $8 Plus Thousand dollars, and wouldn't have to get rid of his refrigerator that had wooden door panels custom made for it, and also wouldn't have to remodel his kitchen, saving him an additional $20 to $40 thousand dollars! This is very common and very likely will happen to your unit also, so if you have been told you need a New SubZero and your cannot be fixed contact me, and I will guide you in the right direction to fix your older and better unit, and save you many thousands of dollars!	Compressor Connections - Freon Charge Pressures HVAC Tech - Zoom Repair to watch, click here This was an HVAC Tech that contacted me, not used to working on domestic refrigerators, like a SubZero, that had replaced the compressor, but wanted to make sure he wired the compressor properly, before putting power to it. I walked him through the simple wiring of the compressor, and he was all set.

Compressor Replacement with Difficult Customer Non-Tech Customer Sealed System - Zoom Repair to watch, click here 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.	Thermostat Diagnosis and Replacement with Difficult Customer Non-Tech Customer - Zoom Repair to watch, click here After we got the compressor replaced, and cooling again. He contacted me again, and said the compressor would not run. In this video, we traced down the electrical circuit to the compressor and found that the thermostat power wire had melted, and melted off the terminal in the thermostat, and he needed to replace the thermostat. Needing to order the thermostat, he needed the refrigerator to run, until it arrived, so we bipassed the thermosta with a normal lighting switch, so that he could manually monitor the refrigerator as it cooled, and turn it on and off, for the few days until I rushed the thermostat to him. As you can see, it worked out great and he was not without a refrigerator for the time it took to get and replace the thermostat. If he would have had a service man come out, they would not have bipassed it for him, and just said, you have to wait until the thermostat comes in, in a week or so, and he would have been without a refrigerator.

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