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- From: tmcbraye@thor.ece.uc.edu (Tim McBrayer)
- Subject: Cleaning a heat-pump heat-exchanger
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.210559.2081@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
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- Organization: Unversity of Cincinnati, ECE Dept
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:05:59 GMT
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- I've recently bought a house with a heat pump (with electric 'emergency heat')
- for heating/cooling. The full-house inspection I had done before buying said
- that the heat exchanger was dirty, and needed to be cleaned. Well, it is,
- and it does! For whatever reason, enough dust has been sucked into it that
- the lower surface is covered with gunk. In some areas, this gunk resembles
- paper, and I could simply peel it off the surface of the heat exchanger.
- In other areas, though, it has filled the area between the fins of the
- exchanger.
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- My question is: what is the best way to remove this stuff? I used a small
- knife to clean between some of the fins (1-2 mm spacing). This is tedious,
- and I have to be careful not to bend the fins too much. Is there any way to
- soak the stuff off/steam clean it/??? Any advice will be greatly
- appreciated.
-
- Thanks in advance,
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- Tim McBrayer tmcbraye@thor.ece.uc.edu
- Computer Architecture Design Laboratory (513) 556-0904
- University of Cincinnati
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