[s-cars] Good news for R12 A?C people

[djdawson2 at aol.com]

Yep.  There was a time when R12 was costing upwards of $100/pound.  In those days, it was not uncommon for people to be going through junkyards pulling any remaining R12 out of the old cars.
 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Green <trgreen at comcast.net>
To: s-car-list at audifans.com list <s-car-list at audifans.com>; djdawson2 <djdawson2 at aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:39 pm
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Good news for R12 A?C people



On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at 12:10 AM, Dave Dawson < djdawson2 at aol.com 
 > wrote:

> BTW - I would never buy refrigerant from anything less than a well  
> qualified refrigerant supplier.  "Recovered" R12 is all that's out  
> there now.  I would never want to risk getting stuff that was not  
> clean, FWIW.

On that note, have you ever seen one of those refrigerant recovery  
machines that included the reverse osmosis cleaning system for the  
refrigerant that were foisted on the repair shops in FL in the late  
90's ?  Well, foisted on the consumer actually, as the end user who  
was paying for the equipment.

They had clear tanks so you could see something bubbling through the  
liquid.  Supposedly the requirement was to reintroduce any recovered  
refrigerant back into that same vehicle and only use new refrigerant  
to make up loss.  But, somehow, they all seemed to have tanks of this  
reclaimed R12 available to sell.  The idea was that FL was responsible  
for more than half the atmospheric damage from freon.  Probably close,  
but not proven.   There was a log kept with each tank, listing where  
every ounce went.

Tom