On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:09:45 -0500, " Sir Gregory Hall, Esq·"
åke wrote:

"Bruce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:28:34 -0500, Gogarty
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On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:21:44 -0500, Marc Auslander
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Bruce writes:

On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:41:55 -0500, " Sir Gregory Hall, Esq·"
åke wrote:


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At any rate, since I crimped the connectors tighter it hasn't missed a
beat.

I am just soooo freaking smart!!! Perhaps this might assist somebody
else
who
has been experiencing the same or similar symptoms.

Loose connections? And you are a genius to have fixed them?

Aren't you the guy who is described as having a few loose screws?

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Cheers,
Bruce

In the computer and auto electrical repair worlds, I live by the truth
that "it's always the connector!" I see it works on boats as well :-)

Years ago, in the Apple II days, I used to "fix" computers by pulling
the cards out and pressing them back in a couple of times. Sort of
scratched the corrosion off I guess. A really serious defect was
sometimes cured by rubbing a rubber eraser across the contacts.
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Cheers,
Bruce
Back in the days of my TRS-80 computer, when it started getting flaky, pull
all the cables and wipe the male connectors with a red rubber pencil erases.
Worked great.

As for the fridge, did you evacuate all the cooland and recharge? You could
have water vapor in there.

That was someone else fixing the fridge.

But your question brings up something... The American refrigeration
people I've worked with all insisted on long periods of vacuuming
systems. the Thai's on the other hand hook the pump up, pause to light
a cigarette, and then charge it with refrigerant.

But I've never had a Thai serviced system freeze up :-)


Americans tend to believe the old adage that if a little is
good, a lot is better and too much is just right.

Respecting drawing a vacuum in a refrigeration system,
it can't possibly matter how long the vacuum is in place.
One minute is as good as one hour. In a vacuum one
draws out molecules. As many water molecules will be
drawn out in a vacuum held for one minute as for one hour.

American's also believe in ripping off the customer. If a
service technician can charge you and extra hour labor
while he sits and twiddles his thumbs or smokes cigarettes
he will do so.


Your concept of physics is seriously flawed. Firstly, your term vacuum
is not a very scientific one as there is essentially no such thing -
it is rather a lower then atmospheric pressure and it doesn't "draw
out molecules", rather as pressure is reduced water boils (is
vaporized) at a lower temperature which allows any water to
"evaporate" and can easily be removed from the system by flowing
toward the low pressure source.

Now; all vacuum pumps vary in efficiency and none of them is capable
of "pulling a complete vacuum" and as it takes time to completely
vaporize any water in the system, theoretically the longer one keeps
the vacuum pump running the more likely one is to evaporate all the
water in the system and remove it.

Next flaw in your argument: "American's also believe in ripping off
the customer".

While I can't argue with your supposition I can say that you have
never been ripped off compared to what will happen to you when you
arrive in one of these 3rd world, developing countries.

As soon as they see you they will identify you as a foreigner and
everyone knows that all foreigners are rich, so prices go up. I've
seen tourists, at Patong Bay on Phuket Island, paying double the price
for a colorful tee shirt that the identical tee shirt sells for in
Phuket Town, some 15 Km away. And a bus ride from Patong to Phuket
town costs less then a dollar).
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Cheers,
Bruce