On Sun May-13-2012 07:04, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RW> 13 May 12 07:23, Roger Nelson wrote to Mark Hofmann:

 MH>> I ended up getting my condenser replaced.

 RN> BUMMER!

 RW> Unfortunately, the labor costs more than the condenser...which is a
 RW> cheap item to buy.

It used to be the other way around years ago.  Condensors are much easier
to replace than evaporators.  I could do it today, but I have to replace
the commode's fill valve.  (-:

 RW> Having to recycle the coolant is another problem because the
 RW> machine to do that costs a couple of thousand and somebody has to
 RW> pay for that! 

I didn't know they were that expensive.

 RW> BTW, when Harry finally got around to moving his equipment out of
 RW> the old shop, he had three of those machines, two of which didn't
 RW> work anymore and they ended up in the dumpster.

 RW> So, there went $4k worth of equipment down the tube. But, they had
 RW> paid for themselves several times over in the years before they
 RW> became inoperable.

Non-repairable or just too old and outdated?


Regards,

Roger 
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+