i am an apprentice so to speak working as a maintenance guy at this apartments. i read the technical books here and there but they go beyond the AC maintenance for an apartment complex. so i actually believe that i know now a lot more than the other workers working there. so yes to get to the question...so i was defrosting an AC unit the other day in a hurry because it was almost the end of the shift. i grabbed a hand held torch (one of those u put lighter gas in) to hurry up and melt the ice to get it back running. so i got it working good.. now today i heard this guy saying that using a torch messes up the refrigerant..is that true? my gut feeling is no because i didn't even get the metal hot and two...the compressor motor gets reallll hot to even touch it for 5 minutes on a hot day and when the fan motor goes bad, it gets really hot too for the inner thermal element to disconnect...
my gut feeling is that no..if i am wrong, i would like to learn this from the experts but if i am right, how would i go on telling this "expert" (he has been working there for like 17 yers)...that he is wrong?
thanks in advance. i guess that was two questions