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Red dye now available on hydraulic leaks
Smart dye kit finally cracks age-old “false positive” problem for UV leak detection A smart new fluorescent dye from Spectroline is being hailed a – literally – brilliant solution to a problem that has long prevented engineers on hydraulic and oil systems enjoying the benefits of ultraviolet (UV) leak detection. Ingeniously, new Spectroline Red Dye [...]
Safety alert over “universal” air conditioning cleaners
“Read small print” warning as corrosive chemicals are advertised for indoor use Europe’s leading producer of air conditioning maintenance products has issued an urgent warning to facilities managers and service engineers, to regularly check the labels and associated safety data sheets of cleaning chemicals advertised as suitable for indoor and outdoor use. Advanced Engineering circulated [...]
Imperial Tools is reborn in the UK through Advanced Engineering
Top American HVAC toolmaker Imperial has signed a deal to distribute its famous Stride range in the UK through Advanced Engineering. The Imperial brand has won an enviable reputation stateside for the uncompromising quality of its tools, and Stride tools are considered among the most useable and dependable equipment in the toolboxes of HVAC engineers [...]
Advanced issues flush warning
Colin Pratt, technical director for Advanced Engineering, has warned against taking shortcuts when flushing out systems The progressive phase-out of HCFCs will see engineers performing more flushing, as ACR systems are retrofitted with new refrigerants – and market leader Advanced Engineering is concerned that a temptation to cut corners now will create much larger difficulties [...]
Spectroline approved for use in Emerson’s Copeland compressors
The world’s leading manufacturer of HVAC equipment has approved Spectroline UV leak detection dye for use in its compressors… making it the only OEM dye with such certification in the world. Like Spectroline dye, Copeland compressors can be found in hundreds of thousands of installations worldwide. However, up until this point, engineers working on Copeland [...]
New, half-size Promax hailed as “a revolution in recovery”
A half-sized refrigerant recovery machine from Promax promises to “rewrite the rule book” for UK air conditioning engineers Tipping the scales at just 8kg, and at half the size of the previous smallest Promax unit, the new RG3000 is by far the world’s smallest and lightest refrigerant recovery machine – similar in size to a [...]
World’s first refrigeration coil cleaner
New formula is registered for use in food storage and preparation areas Refrigeration engineers on sites where food is handled no longer need to choose between closing production and risking food hygiene, after Advanced Engineering unveiled the world’s first range of ACR cleaning products for use in food handling areas. Advanced’s new refrigeration range finally [...]
New CENT kit makes oil analysis affordable for every service
Compressor failure could become “a thing of the past”, claimed Advanced Engineering, after a new oil testing kit brought world class laboratory diagnostics within reach of every ACR service contract. Launched in co-operation with lubricants giant FUCHS, the CENT kit enables engineers to submit samples for spectrometry and inductively-coupled plasma analysis, among other tests, for [...]
Advanced Engineering improves Britain’s favourite coil cleaners
Life for Britain’s ACR engineers will soon become a little easier, after Advanced Engineering further improved the formulas of its market-leading range of coil cleaners. By far the UK’s most popular range of coil cleaning products, Advanced’s EnviroCoil, CondenCide and the Ready-to-Use (RTU) range have all been upgraded, after laboratory tests and field trials proved [...]