When a a/c system is gassed up you obviously pay for the labour and refridgerant.
What happens to the R134a when a system is depressurised, again it is obviously removed from the system but is it reuseable? if so does the operator buy back the r134a?[?][?][?]
R134a refridgerant
Moderator: RichardW
It's "supposed" to be collected in things like a bladder from a wine cask & returned to a supplier for "recycling in an environmentally friendly manner" (read some long haired lout with a sharp knife stabbing the bag & burning the bladder in an open incinerator) [:0][:0]
Some of the machines used to evacuate and recharge are capable of acually taking the gas, running it through a dryer/filter arrangement and recycling it back into the system; I was never financially capable of obtaining one of those machines basically due to the fact it was in the "twilight" of my career.[:D][:D][}:)]
The cost of those systems would justify re-charging for the recycled gas, believe me.[;)]
Alan S
Some of the machines used to evacuate and recharge are capable of acually taking the gas, running it through a dryer/filter arrangement and recycling it back into the system; I was never financially capable of obtaining one of those machines basically due to the fact it was in the "twilight" of my career.[:D][:D][}:)]
The cost of those systems would justify re-charging for the recycled gas, believe me.[;)]
Alan S