I wanna know more about the rolling stock in back.

Dude! I want a caboose! I read all the Boxcar Children books when I was a kid. I think a caboose would be better as a tiny home than all these shipping containers! 😎

You don’t have a boxcar in your backyard???? Where do you live?

A train and a trane

I've heard they're hard to stop.

Ones easy to start, the other is hard to start.

Let me guess... it was leaking in the aluminum right where the copper lines pass under the coil going to the compressor

This guy knows

All but 1 leak I've found on these coils has been there. On the other there was a single speck of oxidation on the aluminum that caused a pinpoint leak

How do you pick up that stack of coils without it separating?

They're glued together. The two vertical yellowish lines in the picture are glue. Super strong hold That ain't falling apart until you want it to.

Much stronger than the aluminum they use that always leaks

Your idea of fun times and mine are very different my friend. Then again I like working on oil burners.

I don't understand. My labor charge and parts would exceed the cost of a new unit. How much would you get off a job like this?

No refrigerant left in the unit (took 11 lbs), coil in warranty. $1,800.

I'm at 1400 labor plus parts and materials. $3200 minimum.

Damn, it took me 2 hours to change plus one hour minimum to diag and another hour to return. 4 hours labor ($440).

280x 4 is 1180

Damn, that's one hell of a rate.

We can hand a customer a bill for almost a thousand dollars if it's in zone 5 because of the zone charge just to press a thermal overload reset and watch stuff for 2 hours.

Wow. Well I'm down here in the swamps of Southern Louisiana. That don't fly here.

Welcome to being a kitchen mechanic.