A common saying in the trades is “work smarter, not harder.” This is a good motto for refrigeration service technicians. When installing or repairing a refrigeration system, technicians should look for opportunities to slightly modify the system (without changing its design) to make it more serviceable.
Units shipped from the factory are not always built or designed with extra features to make them easy to service. If there is a way to make a system more service-friendly during an installation or major repair, technicians should do it — as long as the modification makes sense economically and does not change the design of the system.