Thread: One for the fridgies

Originally Posted by scarry

Sorry Rick,quite happy where I am,just waiting to clock off for good
But it would be good to work with you and learn a few of your tricks.

We have 31 PM's for next (short) month, and there is only 3 of us, plus all the other stuff.
And 6 not yet done this month.

We could do with another tech, but finding one that is half good is like finding rocking horse poo

Anyway,see below, i have another job for you down at the local Coles
This is high priority,1 hour response time

There is no frozen product in the store at all.

We've just put on a new bloke but he's only a 3rd year fridgey, qualified sparkie, so that makes four of us now.

I reckon you'll be teaching me Paul, I'll definitely be picking your brains on chillers, I know enough to be dangerous there.

And Des, the border's open so come on over.
You can give the young blokes some stick

I just found out today one of our engineers at head office did his time with a bloke that I used to know, because he did his time with dear old dad.
This industry is so bloody incestuous!

Originally Posted by scarry

Dunno if I can put up with another summer, but anyway, see what happens.

Sounds like it is time to get yourself a little gaff on Mount Tambourine & ditch your moby.

I say that each year as well & I'm not even out in it working.

Yep Summer down here was a bastard & probably not much better up there. La Nina is here this year & already it looks more like the Summers we used to know & look forward to.

Originally Posted by scarry

There is no frozen product in the store at all.

The big boys get tetchy when an entire rack goes down.

They lost the LT rack in one of the local stores here six months ago.
It was out for a week. The poor local store tech was stressed to the hilt as it was an issue well above his pay grade, they had the original commissioner come in to sort it out.
The EXV's on the cascade heat exchanger (condenser) wouldn't play the game, and you cannot exceed about -2° in the CO2 condenser.

Originally Posted by rick130

We've just put on a new bloke but he's only a 3rd year fridgey, qualified sparkie, so that makes four of us now.

I reckon you'll be teaching me Paul, I'll definitely be picking your brains on chillers, I know enough to be dangerous there.

And Des, the border's open so come on over.
You can give the young blokes some stick

I just found out today one of our engineers at head office did his time with a bloke that I used to know, because he did his time with dear old dad.
This industry is so bloody incestuous!

You can give the young blokes some stick

Eerrrrrrr, would you care to rephrase that?

I dunno how Des would go, trying to find leaks with his halide leak detector, and spending all day looking for that bottle of R502,that went missing.
Oh, and the bottle of R12 the apprentice said was in the corner of the shed but cant seem to find it.

Anyway,he is sure to be a better worker than 90% of these young blokes, and shouldn't spend all day on Face Book

I am sure you could teach me a bit about CO2,never been near the stuff,dont want to at those pressures either.

Bugger, off to a glass door freezer high temping......

Originally Posted by rick130

The big boys get tetchy when an entire rack goes down.

They lost the LT rack in one of the local stores here six months ago.
It was out for a week. The poor local store tech was stressed to the hilt as it was an issue well above his pay grade, they had the original commissioner come in to sort it out.
The EXV's on the cascade heat exchanger (condenser) wouldn't play the game, and you cannot exceed about -2° in the CO2 condenser.

I noticed out the back there were a heap of free standing freezer cabinets, brand new,4 door I think, on wheels, ready to go in, about 8 of them.
Four Danfoss compressor units sitting on top of each.

CO2 cascades aren't so bad, they're only R410a pressures but you cannot trap liquid anywhere or you are in deep do do. So you have to keep pressures above 60psi so you don't form dry ice.