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Sociology > Depression |
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"K-9" |
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10 Jul 2005 07:28:20 PM |
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Air Conditioning |
I've always bough my air conditioning units used.
A number of years ago I finally bought a new one and within two months
the bearing ceased. I had it serviced and brought it back home.
The next night it ceased again. The service charge had me thinking the
bearing had been replaced. The billing description was vague. It
turned out it had just been cleaned and no bearing was available for
the unit. I bought another unit in used condition to replace it. The
bearing in that one ceased. I've had this really small Montgomery Ward
unit that I have cleaned a number of times each season. This morning
it quite and I have grown tired of removing everything to take the fan
out. Up the road was an air conditioning unit sitting out with a sign
'free' on it. The fan bearing is in excellent condition and the unit
so far does a great job.
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: Air Conditioning |
10 Jul 2005 09:38:04 PM |
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I buy the cheap ~$100 or so units for use in the basement when I have all
the computer gear up. The only problem I've ever had was that I took the
cover off of one and stupidly cut my finger (and how!) on the condenser fan.
It was still under warranty (and I figured the warranty should cover me
breaking a fan blade with my fingers) so I took it back, Best Buy gave me
the run around, "we don't have anymore regionally" "we're waiting on the
service department" "I'll call you back after contacting the repair
depot"....
I finally just camped out in front of the store about 30 minutes before they
opened and it got the manager concerned. 1 day later he miraculously found
one at a store about 45 minutes away! Incredible, I was told there were
none!
Anyway, I've never had a bearing seize on any of them, but they do start to
get worthless after about 3 years. I mainly notice it in the form of the
compressor starting to make a sort of death rattle and there's a lot less
cold. I'm able to get away with 5000btu models because it's a basement and
that helps with a lot of the heat. It can still get well into the mid 80s
otherwise. I imagine if I got a 12,000btu model I could get this room down
to the mid 50s.
I've never had to get them cleaned <heh> I have it mounted on a wall so that
the heat is pumped into a big dirt filled space under the house that *could*
have doubled the size of the basement but they didn't excavate it. So the
space just has some of the ancient trash from when they built the house and
all the co-ax and cat5 cables. It keeps a 3 year old AC unit looking new
with none of that dirty outside air. Ick. Especially since we get a lot of
"cotton" in the spring from all the cottonwood trees and it does a number
for plugging up the condenser radiator.
"K-9" <bark@bark.com> wrote in message
news:q3e3d1tbmp2ui1e5g1pab5864qpr8i7dkl@4ax.com...
I've always bough my air conditioning units used.
A number of years ago I finally bought a new one and within two months
the bearing ceased. I had it serviced and brought it back home.
The next night it ceased again. The service charge had me thinking the
bearing had been replaced. The billing description was vague. It
turned out it had just been cleaned and no bearing was available for
the unit. I bought another unit in used condition to replace it. The
bearing in that one ceased. I've had this really small Montgomery Ward
unit that I have cleaned a number of times each season. This morning
it quite and I have grown tired of removing everything to take the fan
out. Up the road was an air conditioning unit sitting out with a sign
'free' on it. The fan bearing is in excellent condition and the unit
so far does a great job.
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| User: "lisa in mass." |
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| Title: Re: Air Conditioning |
10 Jul 2005 08:01:43 PM |
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K-9 wrote...
I've always bough my air conditioning units used.
A number of years ago I finally bought a new one and within
two months the bearing ceased. I had it serviced and
brought it back home. The next night it ceased again. The
service charge had me thinking the bearing had been
replaced. The billing description was vague. It turned out
it had just been cleaned and no bearing was available for
the unit. I bought another unit in used condition to
replace it. The bearing in that one ceased. I've had this
really small Montgomery Ward unit that I have cleaned a
number of times each season. This morning it quite and I
have grown tired of removing everything to take the fan
out. Up the road was an air conditioning unit sitting out
with a sign 'free' on it. The fan bearing is in excellent
condition and the unit so far does a great job.
we had 6 units in our garage, mostly from my parents' house,
when they got central air. the father of my son's friend was
going to buy a new air conditioner, but we sold him one for 20
bucks. works perfectly. we both made out.
-lisa
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| User: "Teilhard Knight" |
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| Title: Re: Air Conditioning |
10 Jul 2005 07:44:52 PM |
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K-9 wrote:
I've always bough my air conditioning units used.
A number of years ago I finally bought a new one and within two months
the bearing ceased. I had it serviced and brought it back home.
The next night it ceased again. The service charge had me thinking the
bearing had been replaced. The billing description was vague. It
turned out it had just been cleaned and no bearing was available for
the unit. I bought another unit in used condition to replace it. The
bearing in that one ceased. I've had this really small Montgomery Ward
unit that I have cleaned a number of times each season. This morning
it quite and I have grown tired of removing everything to take the fan
out. Up the road was an air conditioning unit sitting out with a sign
'free' on it. The fan bearing is in excellent condition and the unit
so far does a great job.
Can I move with you?
--
Teilhard Knight
The Extraterrestrial
Change "privacy" for "softhome" if you want to intrude my inbox
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| User: "Luna" |
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| Title: Re: Air Conditioning |
11 Jul 2005 09:02:16 AM |
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"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:3jdto5Fp00nkU1@individual.net...
K-9 wrote:
I've always bough my air conditioning units used.
A number of years ago I finally bought a new one and within two months
the bearing ceased. I had it serviced and brought it back home.
The next night it ceased again. The service charge had me thinking the
bearing had been replaced. The billing description was vague. It
turned out it had just been cleaned and no bearing was available for
the unit. I bought another unit in used condition to replace it. The
bearing in that one ceased. I've had this really small Montgomery Ward
unit that I have cleaned a number of times each season. This morning
it quite and I have grown tired of removing everything to take the fan
out. Up the road was an air conditioning unit sitting out with a sign
'free' on it. The fan bearing is in excellent condition and the unit
so far does a great job.
Can I move with you?
Can I take the couch?
Jean
--
Teilhard Knight
The Extraterrestrial
Change "privacy" for "softhome" if you want to intrude my inbox
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| User: "K-9" |
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| Title: Re: Air Conditioning |
10 Jul 2005 08:55:24 PM |
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:44:52 -0500, "Teilhard Knight"
<teilhk@privacy.net> <barked>
K-9 wrote:
I've always bough my air conditioning units used.
A number of years ago I finally bought a new one and within two months
the bearing ceased. I had it serviced and brought it back home.
The next night it ceased again. The service charge had me thinking the
bearing had been replaced. The billing description was vague. It
turned out it had just been cleaned and no bearing was available for
the unit. I bought another unit in used condition to replace it. The
bearing in that one ceased. I've had this really small Montgomery Ward
unit that I have cleaned a number of times each season. This morning
it quite and I have grown tired of removing everything to take the fan
out. Up the road was an air conditioning unit sitting out with a sign
'free' on it. The fan bearing is in excellent condition and the unit
so far does a great job.
Can I move with you?
It is funny in that the ac unit now is in the small room that the last
unit was in. The last unit was too small to cool that space.
This unit could turn that room into a meat locker if I am not careful.
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| User: "Tim J." |
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| Title: Re: Air Conditioning |
10 Jul 2005 10:37:41 PM |
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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:28:20 GMT, K-9 <bark@bark.com> wrote:
I've always bough my air conditioning units used.
A number of years ago I finally bought a new one and within two months
the bearing ceased. I had it serviced and brought it back home.
The next night it ceased again. The service charge had me thinking the
bearing had been replaced. The billing description was vague. It
turned out it had just been cleaned and no bearing was available for
the unit.
Because generally, you don't replace the bearings. You replace the
entire fan motor. That is, *IF* you can find somewhere that will work
on window units. Most A/C places won't fool with them, so they will
give you a ridiculously high repair estimate, which is designed to get
you to throw out the old one and buy a new one.
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