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Originally Posted by mr.xpowerseller  I'm sure you can still find R12 if you look. I just cannot possibly imagine that the EU is more insane about ozone depletion then the good old US EPA. |
I keep looking and hoping. But you're wrong about the EU versus US comparison. Over there in the Land of the Free you can at least still legally obtain recovered and repackaged R12. Recycling is actually a very sensible conservation strategy.
Here where the Eurocrat rules, any R12 recovered from scrap car a/c, fridges and other systems has to be measured, declared in triplicate on a signed form, transferred to a firm authorised to handle CFCs, which doubtless charges a fee for the service, and destroys the R12 in a high temperature incinerator. So you can imagine what happens: when no-one is looking, someone in the workshop or scrapyard just happens to open the valve...
As a result R12 has become as rare as rocking-horse sh*t; and guys like me, who would like to continue to use R12 responsibly in the systems designed for it, struggle to source supplies.
End of rant!