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Replacing Home Air Conditioning Suction Lines
Unsoldering Home Air Conditioner Pipes
Prepare New Home Air Conditioner Couplings
Cutting Home Air Conditioner Copper Pipes
Cleaning Home Air Conditioner Joints
Replacing Home Air Conditioners: Using Trap
Replacing a Home Air Conditioner High Side Line
Soldering Home Air Conditioner Copper Pipes
Inspecting Home Air Conditioner Leaks
Setting Home Air Conditioner A-Coils
Connect Home Air Conditioner Suction Lines
Pressure Check a Home Air Conditioner
Vacuuming Home Air Conditioner Lines
Grounding & Sealing Home Air Conditioner Lines
Connecting Home Air Conditioner Electrical Wires
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Summary: Trap is used to keep heat away and prevent valve damage. Learn about using trap with tips from a professional HVAC technician in this free home cooling system repair video.
Tony McClaren is a licensed master journeymen HVAC technician with over 20 years of schooling. He has traveled all over the U.S. installing commercial as well as residential air...read more
"Make sure I get this, keep this good and clean. And no trash on it. No moisture. No dirt. And I'll probably clean it up a little more actually before I solder it. This is a trap. And what it's used for is to keep the heat away from where I don't want it. Keep from damaging this valve. I've come across a lot of times, where someone wasn't that careful, and I come by work on a unit and find this leaking Freon out here around this top or whatever it is. All because whoever soldered it got these valves too hot. And they damaged the seals in there. Now you can take a towel and water and wet a towel down and wrap around it and tie it. And some guys like that. But I like this heat trap. It works real good for me. But that's just a little messy but it works. Now I'm going to unsolder this joint here. Get this old pipe off here. And then I'll start working putting both the new ones into the unit. Now I'm going to work on my suction side, my larger line. I'll come back to the high side in a minute. It's smaller, it's out of my way right now. I just wanted this piece out of the way for the moment. And then I'll run it when I get through with this one. For this one's the hardest one to put in. It's a lot rigid. And the little line I pretty well move where I want to and form it. But this one's going to take a little bit more than that."
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