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- I am Airman First Class Kurt Hartwell.

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I am here with the HVAC
shop at Yokota Air Base,

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with the 374th Civil Engineering Squadron.

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Uh, basically today what we did,

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was we prepared this building
for no AC, or no cooling.

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Essentially we turned off the main water,

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the chilled water pumps to it.

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Uh, we cleaned out the strainers,

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did a little bit of
routine maintenance on it,

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which is effective, especially
when we're doing a no cooling

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because we can't necessarily get to

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these certain components
when we're in cooling mode.

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So turning off the cooling and
getting ready for the heating

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is definitely a good time
for us to do the maintenance

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that we were able to do today.

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While we're doing it now, with
the no heating, no cooling,

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again, there's parts to the systems

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that are just easier to work with

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when we're not having
to worry about certain,

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like water running while it's cooling.

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We have to worry about
the cool water running,

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maybe that's sort of building up

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and possibly ruining
some sort of equipment.

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The most difficult part was probably

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some of the routine work.

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We were trying to get some
of these valves to close off

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and they were having,
giving us a hard time.

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But that's to be expected in the

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Civil Engineering Department.

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We're always working hard,

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especially in the manual parts, so...

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That can be a little difficult,
but nothing we can't handle.

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