Re: R123a in A/C

[Robert Phillips <r3rfp@dax.cc.uakron.edu>]

On Wed, 12 Jul 1995, Frank Deutschmann wrote:

> OK, someone pls correct me if I am wrong, but I thought R134a was completly
> incompatabile with existing systems?!

That's true.  You cannot put R134A into a Freon -12 system and expect it 
to work.  I don't know why, but someone does.

The thread was concerning *converting* an R-12 system to 134A.  As R-12 
is getting to be expensive and a real pain in the a*s to get, there are 
supposedly kits to convert your existing R-12 system to the miracle, 
wonder drug, green-peace lovin', tree huggin', 134A.  

Where are our rocket scientists when you need them?  There are some big 
drawbacks of the 134A though.  I seem to rememer it being pretty harmful 
to humans, if not trees.

Someone who knows about this stuff, enlighten us?

"I'm just an Anthropologist...and who *really*  needs A/C anyhow?"--Bob 

Robert Phillips
The University of Akron Sociology Department-------Akron, Ohio
1987 Audi 4000S, 1.8L 4-cyl, FWD----------SOLO II  DSP