York

GREAT PHOTO!!

Oh geez, this is fantastic! Great job! Damn, the symmetry is sure swell! 100 points for composition, color, and lighting as well!

looks like some kind of bizarre cartoon character, hehe

reminds me of the wartime cartoons of the little guy with the gasmask...
Excellent shot!

A hell of a nice piece of history!!

That would make a cool album cover.

I thought of the gasmask right away too, Quest.

ah, yes. It was a cartoon from the 1930s-40s-wartime...he had a name, too. Goes to show that visuals are the best kept records! :-)
Lynee, any followups? ;-)

Private Snafu?

http://www.toonopedia.com/snafu.htm
http://www.tultw.com/bios/snafu.htm

oh, Lynnie (may I?) I just posted to this and am gunna wrap around it!
Most important (after all, you connected the dots) do you see the little guy in his regalia?
I do find it fascinating that the wrenches and other equipment was left there. Mustav been state property ;-)

what say you, Mr. Motts?

It 's staring at me..

Remember........Pressure & Temperature are relative, the machine told me so!!

I adore this photo!

And I adore YOU! Er, I mean, I adore ~ME. Er, that doesn't sound right either.

Ah, fergit it.

Uh, York still makes AC units.

Reminds me of "Johnny #5"

The shinning, with the boiler at the end. That's what this reminds me of.

Love it, I'm an Irishman living in York, England

its C3P0!

Yes - York is still very much in business. I am the Senior Product Engineer for York. I was just poking around this site and to my surprise found this great photo. This set of Gages was used on reciprocating compressors. Ammonia was the refrigerant, not Freon. The wrench in the foreground was also made here at our factory in York, Pennsylvania. In those days we made all of our own parts including the gages and tools. The compressor in the background of the photo actually is not for air conditioning but is a small refrigeration unit. We currently make A/C and refrigeration units up to 3000 Horsepower. - Great Photo! -

yeah you are right about the using ammonia but they are not horse power any more its in tons

While you are correct about the fact that air conditioning and refrigeration capacity is measured in "tons" Mr. Carrier, I just wanted to use terminology that would not add confusion to those not familiar with the industry. Horsepower is easily understood by most folks.

this is sick. i want to get inside real bad and take pictures for photography. these are amazing

I didn't realize they had AC back then

look like eyes

The tools look like that had come from my old friend's Dad's shed. He seemed to have gained a lot of old tools from reletives over the years.

ahahaha.

it looks like a funny fayce.
i love it.

i have 3 york chillers in my boiler room and On December 9, 2005, YORK was acquired by Johnson Controls

simple bird -
Hope you like your York chillers. Depending on what size they are...I probably designed them. I am a collector of old "York" items, gages and photos so I found this site very ineteresting.

It looks like a old parking thing

It's Wall-E! (Go see the movie it's great.)

Ha ha ha ha...It DOES look like Wall-E! Yes, I found it to be a great movie as well. I thought I was going to get to answer the question of "What is it" but was beaten to it.
One interesting thing not mentioned; In most cooling systems when they are at rest, automotive a/c, refigerators, etc. is the pressure DOES correspond to the ambient temperature if it is correctly charged. Hence, temperature on one part of the scale and pressure on the other part. So, as a tech, you could shut it down, wait a while and check the temperature reading on the guage and get an idea as to whether or not the system is low on coolant (Freon/Ammonia etc)
Okay, I am finished, hopefully the reader of this is still awake. :-)

Incidentally, if the guages are working (and I bet they are) this system is still charged AND if anyone decides they want to poke around it, BE CAREFULL. Ammonia coming at you under 20 pounds of pressure will burn your eyes, salivary glands, etc.
Now I am really finished.

Cool thanks Jack_ That's some neet knowledge you got there.

Although I still think it looks like Wall-E!
=)

Perhaps it was the inspiration for Wall-E. My Wifes name is Eva and she still turns kind of red when Wall-E screams "Eva!" LOL!

i Am in the Navy and we have 7-ton york compressors. On Board the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75).

I LOVE the old tool box!!! Very cool.

Freon wasn't invented until 1928, prior to that most refrigeration was done with pressurized ammonia, methyl chloride, or Sulfur dioxide which were all pretty nasty chemicals. DuPont owns the patent for Freon and it wasn't used in self contained cooling units until the early 1930's by Carrier. As someone from the company stated this was probably loaded with ammonia but the other chemicals they used to use are far more insidious and nasty to inhale so if you run across more like I'd steer clear of playing with knobs. (Not to mention the danger of old pressurized items to begin with.)

Excellent lighting. Bravo.

I just love how the wrench is just there as if someone had put it down for a second with the intentions of coming back and they never did, so there it sits just as it was put there. Maybe one day someone will come back and continue working on whatever it was they were working on..............ill leave that up to the imagination.......