Maybe Don't Buy New Tools - Short 112

HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs

Bryan Orr

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this short podcast episode, Bryan and Craig Migliaccio discuss why you maybe don't want to buy new tools.

Whenever you get new tools, you have to account for a learning curve and potential change to your practices. Changing your practices and procedures isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you have to practice with the tool and account for different setup and cleanup procedures. However, once you find a good process, you don't want to mess with it too much. You will also want to account for changes to your tool maintenance procedures.

When you go from analog to digital tools, you want to make sure you understand exactly what you're measuring. So, Craig recommends spending time with compound gauge sets and to understand how to find superheat and subcooling before you start using digital gauges. It's best to have some good tactile experience troubleshooting a system with analog gauges. Probes have several advantages, including their Bluetooth compatibility, reduction in refrigerant losses, eliminated risk of contamination, and accuracy. However, without a solid foundation in troubleshooting, switching to probes may make you a bit inefficient.

Calibration is another factor to consider with new tools. You must know how (and when) to calibrate your tools. Calibration is part of maintenance, and it's something you need to account for whenever you purchase a new tool and learn how to use and take care of it.

Whenever you get a new tool, remember that you want consistency, efficiency, and positive outcomes for customers.

Craig and Bryan also discuss:

Pulling cores
Evacuation and recovery
Accuracy of sensor technologies
Finding the tools that work for YOU
Muscle memory with tools
Ideal applications

Check out Craig's work at acservicetech.com.

Learn more about Refrigeration Technologies HERE.

If you have an iPhone, subscribe to the podcast HERE, and if you have an Android phone, subscribe HERE.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, it's Brian. This is the HVAC school podcast. Another sort of pseudo-short episode with my buddy Craig
0:08.8	Miglio. We're riding along just talking about setting up processes and procedures and maybe not always buying new tools.
0:16.2	You know I love new tools. You know I want you to go over to TrueTech tools and use the offer code get schooled
0:21.3	to get a great discount at check out of excellent tools.
0:23.7	A lot of us love tools, but Craig has a great perspective on this and I think it may be helpful for those of us who are coming
0:29.1	into the trade and maybe spending a little more than we should to start on tools and maybe some of us who are a little
0:34.4	too addicted to getting the latest and greatest. So here we go, Craig and I talking about maybe don't buy new tools.
0:42.0	But first, we want to thank our great sponsors.
0:45.2	carrier and carrier.com. I've been a carrier dealer for many years.
0:49.9	Carrier has their new green speed extreme super high efficiency heat pumps out on the market now.
0:56.7	Find out more by going to carrier.com.
0:59.8	Refrigeration Technologies and Refrigetech.com.
1:03.6	The Pastorellos, Mike and John, run a great organization
1:07.3	and they make some of the best chemicals out there
1:09.4	for our trade.
1:10.8	A new product that you're gonna wanna try out if you haven't tried it yet is
1:14.3	Nylog White. We've tested out Nylog White. It's designed for air, water,
1:20.0	glycol and gas so you can use it on all of your threaded connections.
1:24.7	It replaces many of your existing pipe dopes.
1:27.0	It's a very smooth, it's a very clean applying product.
1:30.9	Comes in a nice clean white container with a thread on brush cap so you can apply your
1:37.6	thread sealant on all of your threaded connections easily and smoothly. That is Nylog White from refrigeration technologies.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bryan Orr, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bryan Orr and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.