This article was written by up-and-coming young tech and new contributor Kaleb Saleeby. Thanks, Kaleb! Recently, I came across a work order description in my dispatch that made me scratch my head. Clean Salamander broiler I had to ask the omniscient Google for answers. It turns out it has nothing to do with vividly-colored, “fireproof” […]

“Robert Boyle” by Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and scientist born in 1627. He had a privileged upbringing, as he was a son of the first earl of Cork, and his social standing gave him access to a first-class education at Eton College. […]

Belly band crankcase heater When I first started in the trade as an apprentice, we worked on many Trane heat pumps that used crankcase heaters. These crankcase heaters slid into the compressor sump on the big orange Tyler reciprocating compressors. They looked like the one in the picture below. It was very common for these […]