The story of my life...

[lincpimp]

Ok, so you guys may have noticed that I have not been around as much, or maybe you have not. Maybe you do not care, who knows!

Anyways, I have had alot of work in the shop, and also took a week off to go on a cruise to the Bahamas! And the worst part has been the heat in my upstairs hobby room. The ac unit I have up there was overheating, and the motor burned out. The compressor motor seems to be fine, and it still blows ice cold air (only on low setting as the motor for the blower/condenser fan overheats on med and high). Being horribly cheap!!!! I decided to fix it. This beast is a 2 ton window unit (must weight 300+ pounds) and was made in the 60's. Took the whole thing apart (try doing that with a newer unit), cleaned both of the coils and the drip trays and took the motor to a local shop to be rewound. Well that was more than a month ago and I just got a call today that he was done with it. 135 bucks... (he ended up buying me a new motor cause the old one was "too far gone to fix", whatever) might not have been the best idea, but a comparable new model would be close to 500 bucks... But it would also be new.

The funny part is that I bought a new ac unit yesterday evening from wally world. But I have not got it out of the box yet, so I will put the old unit back together and give it a try. I can always take the new unit back, right! Just how my life works, I try to be patient, but I always end up doing stuff like this.

The newer unit I got appears to be the same physical size, which would help as the current unit is in a custom cut hole in a wall, not a window. Hopefully the old unit keeps working, and I can take the new one back and get my $380 back. Plus the new unit is not as good spec as the old unit (might be a wash as it is new and might be more efficient?) I really do not want to have to modify the wall and mount a new unit in there as that will take alot more time than reassembling the old unit.

So hopefully I will have working ac soon and can get back to some of my rc projects. Still need to sell some of my excess stuff, but it is so hot up there that I cannot even dig thru the boxes without dripping sweat everywhere. Waiting for winter to play with my toys is getting old!