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TIL a retired guy in Fresno taught me the coin trick for finding a bad compressor winding
Stopped by a garage sale in Fresno last Saturday and got chatting with the owner, who fixed fridges for 35 years. He grabbed a fridge compressor off his bench and showed me you can feel a shorted winding just by spinning the shaft and listening for a drag that shouldn't be there, cheaper than digging out the meter every time. He called it "the dime trick" and swore by it on service calls where he was in a hurry. Been trying it on scrap units all week and it's been dead on so far, though I still check with the meter when the call matters. Anyone else pick up tricks like this from old timers at sales or swap meets?
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dylan4133d ago
Old timers just know stuff, plain and simple. Spinning the shaft to feel the drag is a good tell, but yeah, meter still comes out when someone's paying. Swap meets are gold for tricks like that.
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