Freon safety warning!!!!!

Originally Posted by steve129

i dont deal with enough of it or have $350-600 for an hvac fluid recovery system.... i already had respirators, gloves, goggles etc and those things cost far less. how many ac rads and fridges would i have to reclaim before i broke even on that.... our climate eats ac lines and condensers anyway and by the time i get a car its usually allready been vented into the atmosphere over time. i snap the lines and not much comes out. $300 cars do not come with functional ac. when a scrap yard here buys a car and they crane it into a pile if the ac system is charged what happens? is it drained properly? no its thrown in a giant pile of smashed cars whatever systems get punctured leak there fluids im sure this happens with thousands of cars a year so please dont point your finger at me. make your judgements, hate me, whatever your guna do. it is what it is and i am not the only one, just one of many unemployed trying to scrape by

The AC units I have run across have had their recharge line cut with a side cutter which makes a opening small enough to allow the refrigerant to discharge slowly over a couple of days. It reduces the danger of a high pressure discharge to nearly zero. While I do not condone the release of refrigerant into the air, the fact remains that every molecule of refrigerant produced will eventually escape into the atmosphere.... and they keep making more, so it can't be that much of a problem in real life. The benefits MUST outweigh the costs.