Resurrecting Methuselah’s air conditioner, and advising to get ready for a changeout.
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Found that wires in the air handler were torched, but that’s wasn’t what was keeping it from working. Ancient system on its last legs. I was able to repair burnt wire on compressor
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1971.
Smoke.
Outdoor unit has
been disconnected.
That 50-year-old air handler with the burnout
wires might be the least of my problems.
Inner
City
Products
from
Tennessee
with
two-tone
straight
cool
has
shorted
off
the
compressor.
I might be able to reuse that terminal.
All
right,
we're
going
to
try
to
put
that
back
on
the
compressor.
We're going to see if this thing will run.
Let's
see
if
this
old
thing
will
work.
50-year-old
air handler.
That's my suction.
I ain't fixing to add no freon to it. I don't have any r22 with me
So we're gonna leave this as is and tell them
to start saving their money for a new one
The wire
is only
including it
might be old
as Methuselah,
but it's
working
I'm going to advise them to start preparing for a change out
that air handler is from
1971 from 1993.
I think 71 is when
that building was built