R134a Refrigerant Gas

Hi Rusty

With the new rules you must be licensed to buy a/c gas in any form. They have removed easy accessible gas from the public.

Regards

Derek

As Derek says.... refrigerants are now only available to licensed tradesmen.

Even if you got some you need specialised equipment to use it, the system has to pulled down with an 'evacuating pump' to remove the air & then the gas is drawn in to fill the void, it isn't just forced in under pressure like filling a gas bottle, because any remaining gas has to be captured.

Those cans were taken from the shelves nearly 20 years ago.

MMMM....... We get so many customers who think your car air con just has to be refilled every now and again.

Refrigerant just doesn't leak out for no reason, it has to go somewhere. We ask the people who tell us ""it only needs a top up" if you had a car tyre went flat every week or so what would you do, "Oh I would get it repaired because it must have a leak in it."

Your air con should last for years and years before the refrigerant gets to low to show a drop in performance.

There are many reasons why you should have it service every year the main one is to pick up on any small problems before they turn it large expensive problems.

You can get you car air con regased (I hate this word, bit like a doctor putting a sign out side there clinic saying "If you cut your self badly and need stitches come to us because we can save you money and the pain and us bandaids instead" anyway as I was saying you can get you car air con regased for $70.00 if you tried hard enough.

We call ours SERVICES because that is what we do, a complete air con service and finnish the job properly and be proud to put our name to the work.

It brings me to thinking years ago when I was riding motorbikes there was a saying $50.00 helmet, $50 head the same goes for air con servicing $60 regas $60 car........anyway thats my 2 cents worth if you are going to get it done get it done properly........you've got me started now

Regards Richard

Well rustytruck if you are qualified then you should have known better, Im not having a dig at anything or anybody just stating the facts.

Most people who are licensed or are in the industry knows about the new laws and people using DIY cans of refrigerant.......there is a lot more to air conditioning then just filling it up with refrigerant.

The car air con industry has been full of too many backyarders for to long, with the new laws and regulations hopefully it will clean it up.

Now to the use of refrigerant.........Opps! thats another day. ( Im not against it but it should be regulated.)

If I have offended anyone or anybody it was not my intention to do that...so sorry in advance.

Regards Richard

And rustytruck what is stopping you (or why) from taking it to a qualified person for the work to be carried out.

Most refrigeration businesses will help out ex refrigeration people because we are all from the same industry.

15 years ago you could buy cans of R12 off the shelf, then the greenies decided it ate the ozone layer and got it banned and replaced with the more friendly less efficient R134.
There were regulations brought in regarding the capturing of the old R12 and had to be done by licensed people to stop the R12 eating the ozone but as the R134 is ozone friendly are their any regulations on filling/recovering with this gas, I thought it was as safe as fly spray, don't need a license for that.