RAM-5 Tube Cleaner – Come Take A Test-Drive at the AHR
Monday, January 18th, 2010 | HVAC Maintenance and Efficiency, Industrial Cleaning Equipment, innovative HVAC Solutions
If you are a regular reader of this blog – and we hope you are – you know that we normally use these pixels to talk about what’s happening in our industry – the trends that affect how you will be doing business next week, next month and next year – and to pass along what we learn from our friends in the industry. But on the occasion of one of the largest events in the HVAC industry – AHR 2010 in Orlando – we’d like to tell you about a product we’ve been offering for more than a decade – the Ream-A-Matic RAM-5SF tube cleaning system.
Anyone who is responsible for maintaining a heat exchanger, chiller or condenser will tell you that cleaning tube bundles is one of the more time-consuming (read “expensive”) components of both your preventative maintenance and as-needed repair budgets. At the same time, budgets for capital expenditures have either been slashed or eliminated altogether, meaning you need to keep your chillers and heat exchangers in service longer than ever before.
Fouling and the buildup of scale on the inside of tubes can drive up operating costs by lowering thermal efficiency. Cleaning the tube bundles is a necessary evil, either as part of a PM program or when you notice declines in system performance between scheduled maintenance intervals.
The RAM-5SF is truly an improvement over other cleaning systems. All you need to do is roll it into place, hook up electricity and water, connect the shafts and tubes and start cleaning. To see what we mean, you can watch this video.
The key to the RAM-5SF is nothing more than simple, innovative design. Its innovative gun handle controls both the flow of water through the tube and the rotation of the tube. Just squeeze the top of the trigger and the shaft rotates and enters the tube. To bring the shaft back out of the tube, just press the bottom of the trigger. (I feel like I should be offering you a moon roof and tinted windows!) Nearly 100 accessories are available to accommodate a variety of tube sizes, configurations and designs.
If you’ll be attending AHR later this month, stop by the Goodway Booth (#2138) — register to win a free Good Light and test-drive a RAM-5.
Rich Silverman
Goodway Blogging Team
Photo Courtesy of Goodway Technologies
