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13th April 2021, 05:27 PM
V8Ian

That region was more known for tomato and citrus, Paul. Doesn't mean there weren't bananas though.
13th April 2021, 06:52 PM
4bee

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Originally Posted by scarry

With all this fruit room chatter, back in the day, stretching the memory, around Gladstone area, we used to service these huge fruit rooms.

They worked with an evaporative condenser as the evaporator, four to each room, all on R22,Copeland semi compressors.

There were six huge rooms on the site, maybe bananas from memory?

Thats about all I can remember[bigsad][biggrin].
And the only fruit room gear I have had anything to do with, apart from rooms and cabinets in fruit shops.

Seen those Milk Vat Tacm in the catalogue, but have never used one.
The Tacm is probably one of the easier controllers to programme, but the catch is set point is cut in and if the real time time clock is not set up it will never defrost.
And reliability wise, not at the top of the list.

Yes it was Paul & probably is still part of the job, which depends where one is located & what is seasonally grown in those districts. Bananas up your way & Apples & Pears down here but requiring different storage conditions.

Maintaining % RH was probably the key thing to control, to stop or retard Shrinkage.

Some of the systems used Admiralty Pattern 3 cylinder Scottish made Sterne comps (?), & must have been a bulk buy by someone. Built like tanks or battleships they squawked away all day & when I say squawked I mean squawked. Literally. Never had a problem with any of them though.
15th April 2021, 08:52 AM
scarry

Fan deck fun day.

So we have 24 of these little guys on a job, all Muller AHU's,run 24/7,installed 1996,so not a bad innings.This one is original, just noisey bearings.
They have a centre bearing so complete rebuild to do the bearings.

We have 6 to do now, but all the others are going fine.

Interestingly,the last one we did was 2016,and was $1100 less for the job than todays price.[bighmmm]

https://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a...0/16374751.jpg
15th April 2021, 09:37 AM
rick130

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4bee

Yes it was Paul & probably is still part of the job, which depends where one is located & what is seasonally grown in those districts. Bananas up your way & Apples & Pears down here but requiring different storage conditions.

Maintaining % RH Humidity was probably the key thing to control, to stop or retard Shrinkage.

Some of the systems used Admiralty Pattern 3 cylinder Scottish made Sterne comps (?), & must have been a bulk buy by someone. Built like tanks or battleships they squawked away all day & when I say squawked I mean squawked. Literally. Never had a problem with any of them though.

I used to look after a few big and a couple of not so big Apple and stonefruit orchards at Bilpin.
Loved that work
15th April 2021, 09:39 AM
rick130

Playing office jockey today.
Job upgrades, chasing parts, etc.
The joys of keeping on top of things
15th April 2021, 11:22 AM
4bee

[QUOTE=rick130;3077755]Playing office jockey today.
Job upgrades, chasing parts, etc

Quote:

The joys of keeping on top of things

That sounds like a quotation from a happy Sex Worker.

Re Fruit stores. I always enjoyed the "perfume" of cold, stored fruit no matter what it was. Probably not just the fruit itself but the gasses given off as well.

Always a pleasure though to walk from inside a fruit store to the outside in the middle of Summer & of course vice
versa.
Where the stores were situated in the middle of an Orchard also had a bearing on this.

Ah Happy Days.
15th April 2021, 11:41 AM
4bee

[QUOTE=scarry;3077747]Fan deck fun day.

So we have 24 of these little guys on a job, all Muller AHU's,run 24/7,installed 1996,so not a bad innings.This one is original, just noisey bearings.
They have a centre bearing so complete rebuild to do the bearings.

We have 6 to do now, but all the others are going fine.

Interestingly,the last one we did was 2016,and was $1100 less for the job than todays price.[bighmmm]

https://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a...0/16374751.jpg
Couldn't seem to find anything online for Muller's History when I last looked a year or so ago.

At the time they were #1 for Fan Coils & were used everywhere as you'd know.
[bigsad]

Same for Terry's Container side, Luke. Vic. ARAHaC (?) were no help & never even acknowledged my request for any info. Some one probably opened my E-mail, scratched their head said to the young guy at the next desk

"Who the **** were this Mob. Brenton?"

B. "I think they were mates with Noah, Jamie"

[bigsad]

"Normal" these days.
15th April 2021, 11:53 AM
scarry

Quote:

Originally Posted by rick130

Playing office jockey today.
Job upgrades, chasing parts, etc.
The joys of keeping on top of things

Geez Des,your mind always seems to wonder,I don’t have time for that sort of thing to even appear in my brain,anymore,although I was down the coast yesterday and there were some interesting sights,young lady’s in thongs,you know the ones that don’t go on their feet,and not much else on...[thumbsupbig]

Rick,Join the club,but add,chasing up paperwork from the boys,quotes,bad debts,and on and on it goes.[biggrin]

Then the phone rings,off to Rosewood,freezer room shagged.....[bigsad][biggrin]

Boys are flat out sorting out issues at schools while the kids are not there,so I grabbed the short straw again....
15th April 2021, 11:57 AM
scarry

[QUOTE=4bee;3077779]

Quote:

Originally Posted by scarry

Fan deck fun day.

So we have 24 of these little guys on a job, all Muller AHU's,run 24/7,installed 1996,so not a bad innings.This one is original, just noisey bearings.
They have a centre bearing so complete rebuild to do the bearings.

We have 6 to do now, but all the others are going fine.

Interestingly,the last one we did was 2016,and was $1100 less for the job than todays price.[bighmmm]

https://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a...0/16374751.jpg
Couldn't seem to find anything online for Muller's History when I last looked a year or so ago.

At the time they were #1 for Fan Coils & were used everywhere as you'd know.
[bigsad]

Same for Terry's Container side, Luke. Vic. ARAHaC (?) were no help & never even acknowledged my request for any info. Some one probably opened my E-mail, scratched their head said to the young guy at the next desk

"Who the **** were this Mob. Brenton?"

B. "I think they were mates with Noah, Jamie"

[bigsad]

"Normal" these days.

Ten years ago that fan deck would be a Nicotra direct drive dual blower,with fan motor in the middle.

Today they would have used a backward curved direct drive EC fan,no doubt.

Neither would have lasted anywhere near as long as these things.
15th April 2021, 06:14 PM
4bee

[QUOTE=scarry;3077784]

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4bee

Ten years ago that fan deck would be a Nicotra direct drive dual blower,with fan motor in the middle.

Today they would have used a backward curved direct drive EC fan,no doubt.

Neither would have lasted anywhere near as long as these things.

Quote:

Fan deck fun day.

Sounds a bit like a gig they'd have at the local Kindy each year.[bigrolf]

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