PennSilverTaco's HVAC BS MegaThread!

Huayi was also the brand name of the carburetor on my Generator.

 

Ain’t no way that’s the name of it.
Everyone I worked on was named “P.O.S”…….

 

Christmas came early this year! I was driving home after my shift at UPS, and spotted this central A/C unit in the driveway of a house, next to an HVAC truck; I could tell it was an older Ducane even from a distance and assumed it must be getting replaced, so I immediately turned around and went back. I talked to one of the techs doing the replacement, and he said that he was technically not allowed to let me take it, but he was going back into the house to do some work and would simply tell his supervisor that someone had taken it out of the driveway while he was inside the house…

***Wink wink, nudge nudge***

He even let me use his handtruck!

 

Not even a mile from the house where I scored the Ducane, I found this GE window A/C unit sitting curbside. Like I said, Christmas came early!

 

@Lt. Dangle

If I am reading the data sticker properly, the Ducane is a 2.5-ton unit from 2009…

 

Another piece for my HVAC emblem collection!

 

@Lt. Dangle

Some of the older Ducane units, like this one, resemble roughly 2001-2005 Goodman units. I don’t know long this has been the case, but Ducane is presently a subsidiary of Allied Air Enterprises, which in turn is owned by Lennox. My friend’s mom had a Ducane gas grill with the exact same emblem as this air-conditioner, so I’m guessing Ducane was bought out at some point…

 

My Iron Duke emblem fell off a couple yrs ago lol. It's on its second compressor and hanging in there.

 

There is a City outside of Pittsburgh called Duquesne, it's pronounced the way that appears. One day l was downtown with a buddy and a drunk guy approached and kept mumbling something about Duquesne. Finally l said we are not from there and he angrily said he was asking if we Do 'Caine", not if we were from there, lol.

 

About 10 miles from there.

 

When l was young my Uncle worked at the Mill in Duquesne, my Grandpa and Dad at the one in Homestead.

 

Iron Duke? Is this a Pontiac?

 

Lol. That's my nickname for my furnace/condenser! But the ole iron Duke blew a compressor a few yrs back and now the exhaust pipe is dripping water ! Have to fix that soon.

 

What’s the actual brand?

 

Ducane , just like the one u picked up today.

 

How’s it treating you? I’m not a huge fan…

 

Googl-fu says May of 2009

 

Googl-fu?