reclaimer where to buy

[taterjuice]

Anyone know where you can buy a cheap reclaimer for feon ?

[freonjoe]

Reclaimer or recovery unit? They are two completely different kinds of machines.

[taterjuice]

Whatever you would need to pull freon out of AC units and frigs

[freonjoe]

You want a recovery unit. Check with pawn shops for them and a set of gauges. You'll have to buy the line taps new and if you find used recovery tanks make sure they are less than 5 years old.

[taterjuice]

Are they outrageous to buy new ? Is there any place to sell the old freon ?

[admin]

We just paid $700 for one.

[taterjuice]

Don't sound too steep to me who sells em ?

[freonjoe]

You can get a new appion G1 for around 500.00. It's probably the lightest and easiest to use for your application. Make sure when you buy your gauge set that the hoses have the low loss ends on them. You're going to need 2 or 3 30# recovery cylinders for doing refrigerators and at least a 50# cylinder for a/c's. As long as you don't mix refrigerants, there is a good market for selling it into.

Admin, what kind of unit did you buy and what are you using it for?

[BurlyGuys]

Do you have to be licensed to recover the freon?

[taterjuice]

How does it attach to AC that don't have schrader valves ?

[freonjoe]

Yes you do, but you can take the test online. The test has nothing to do with refrigeration knowledge, just the rules and regs on handling it.

[freonjoe]

Tater, you use line taps. Also any refrigerator you find with a tap or access valve you should evacuate into your junk tank unless you have a refrigerant identifier.

[taterjuice]

Thanks Joe ! Always paid to have em emptied out before and thinking its time to get my own recovery unit

[Destructo_d]

E-bay can be your friend.... look on there for the vacuum pump and hoses/gauge set... usually not sold together..... As for the lines with no shrader valve, like feronjoe said, line taps... what it is, is... a 2 piece clamp that you put over the line and tighten down.... there is a place on one side to hook up your hose and on the other side is a screw that you tighten down onto the line that pierces the copper tubing, then you back it out a little bit to allow the gas to flow to the shrader valve.

I too would like to take the recovery course.. I can take it online thru a college in Kelowna, British Columbia that offers it... Thankfully all the a/c units I get to scrap have had the freon removed already for me

[freonjoe]

And then you can charge other people to evacuate their units!

[taterjuice]

Good call now that I see its not ungodly expenseive I'm so getting one

[Rio]

Ran us around 1000.00 to buy a used recovery unit, 4 tanks manifold guage and taps. Used is a gamble but modern units are very repairable. I want a G2 twin from Aprion, but I havent found one at a good enough price to jump. We run 3 of the same types of unit when we do AC units and we could use another. That Aprion is supposed to run 2x as fast.

[freonjoe]

All I use are the Appion G5's and love them. One has over a 1000 hours on it and has never been re-built.

[Rio]

Joe where are you finding them for 500? that is about 260 cheaper than I can get them new for here. My old promax units are still going but they need some work. It would be nice to recover with all three insted of run two work on one LOL

[freonjoe]

Just called my supply house, the G1 is 449.00 and the G5 is 649.00. What were you quoted Rio?