Stop appliance genocide

[toxcrusadr]

Cool that you guys are keeping these old beasts going, and I'm pleasantly shocked at the energy consumption test.

What I wanna know is where you get R12 when the beast springs a leak.

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by toxcrusadr

Cool that you guys are keeping these old beasts going, and I'm pleasantly shocked at the energy consumption test.

What I wanna know is where you get R12 when the beast springs a leak.

Well, if that happens, you ARE screwed. I never have seen one that happened to when I delivered new fridges. The oldies worked but were no longer big enough or pretty enough. The newer ones we picked up always had a leak or bad compressor.

I have two for that reason and would keep more around.

[Ed in Tx]

A few weeks ago I had to get a new house AC condenser-compressor unit. Fortunately for me I had about half of a 30 lb cylinder of R22 I bought in '92-93, so using my own freon saved me a couple hundred $ at today's price. I mentioned to the AC guy that I had some R12 stashed away too. He said so did he. Stuff's so seldom used any more R12 is not worth much and there's very little demand. He said R134A works good enough in older R12 equipment there's just no demand for R12.