My name is Peter. I am a retired field service refrigeration technician. Are you sure it is your capillary tube? If you found it broken, then you have lost your refrigerant. If you have found it broken, then you have a restriction in your seal system. In all of my years as a service technician I have never heard of a broken capillary tube. A capillary tube is a short section of tubing 10-12" long. It is 1/16" in diameter with a sewing needle size hole through it. It is located coming off your evaporator coil in your freezer. On the one side of the capillary tube is 160 PSI of liquid refrigerant. The refrigerant passes through the capillary tube and transforms into 60 PSI of refrigerant vapor. Don't give up. I am here to help you. Tell me more about what is happening, or better yet give me a call @ 443-306-1362.
Yes I found the refrigerator 100% empty, compressor damaged and with the capillary tube broken. I suspected that someone have lost some part of it, because i found it out of his place. And with the new compressor doesn't reach the temperatures needed in the freezer, so I must change the complete capillary. Now is working with 0.8 x 3500 mm but doesn't work properly. Pressures are 210/9 lbs/inches and the lower temp reached is about -13?C. I will cut it to 3000mm and will see...Yes I found the refrigerator 100% empty, compressor damaged and with the capillary tube broken. I suspected that someone have lost some part of it, because i found it out of his place. And with the new compressor doesn't reach the temperatures needed in the freezer, so I must change the complete capillary. Now is working with 0.8 x 3500 mm but doesn't work properly. Pressures are 210/9 lbs/inches and the lower temp reached is about -13?C. I will cut it to 3000mm and will see...
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Hello Roberto;
My name is Peter. I am a retired field service refrigeration technician.
Are you sure it is your capillary tube? If you found it broken, then you have lost your refrigerant. If you have found it broken, then you have a restriction in your seal system. In all of my years as a service technician I have never heard of a broken capillary tube.
A capillary tube is a short section of tubing 10-12" long. It is 1/16" in diameter with a sewing needle size hole through it. It is located coming off your evaporator coil in your freezer. On the one side of the capillary tube is 160 PSI of liquid refrigerant. The refrigerant passes through the capillary tube and transforms into 60 PSI of refrigerant vapor.
Don't give up. I am here to help you. Tell me more about what is happening, or better yet give me a call @ 443-306-1362.
Yes I found the refrigerator 100% empty, compressor damaged and with the capillary tube broken. I suspected that someone have lost some part of it, because i found it out of his place. And with the new compressor doesn't reach the temperatures needed in the freezer, so I must change the complete capillary. Now is working with 0.8 x 3500 mm but doesn't work properly. Pressures are 210/9 lbs/inches and the lower temp reached is about -13?C. I will cut it to 3000mm and will see...