A/C Removal
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Re:A/C Removal
Originally Posted by onyx
Originally Posted by shortyz
i hate people like you, i aint no tree hugger but that ---- take like 230yrs to decompose and it eats the ozone in the 230 years.
so ---- you.
so ---- you.
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Re:A/C Removal
Originally Posted by redneck400ex1
Just for the record: me and my friend went to the dealer yesterday to get his drained and we asked the guy why it was such a huge deal and he said that R-34 (new cars) doesn't really hurt the environment that much but the old R-12 really killed the ozone layer (but its illegal now.) He said that the EPA thought it would be simpler to just make all of them illegal to drain into the open air even though only the old stuff is all that damaging. He said you can buy R-34 refills in walmart so its obviously not that bad. (I think I'm right on those names/numbers but if I'm not the point is now its different.)
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Re:A/C Removal
The number you were looking for was R-134a. Also, if you huff freon, it is heavier than air, and it will fill your lungs and you will suffocate. I had a classmate in highschool die that way.
They quite making R-12 in 1999. Everything for sale now is just stockpiled R12. Call any shop that does AC work. It takes them about 3 minutes to hook up the equipment, and about 30 minutes to suck the freon out. I'm not a tree hugger, but I'm a tech, so I have to do it properly or it's my ***. It's really not that expensive to do it right, plus you'll have a clean concience.
They quite making R-12 in 1999. Everything for sale now is just stockpiled R12. Call any shop that does AC work. It takes them about 3 minutes to hook up the equipment, and about 30 minutes to suck the freon out. I'm not a tree hugger, but I'm a tech, so I have to do it properly or it's my ***. It's really not that expensive to do it right, plus you'll have a clean concience.
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