Actually, most refigerators use R-22... If you've got a system that uses
R-12, you can substitute Propane... (I know, it's flammable.... so is the
gasoline that's under your hood, too... so don't freak out about it) I don't
know what R-13a is.. you mean 134a?
>I know an air conditioning man when a chemistry degree..don't ask. Anyway
he
>agrees with what you say about R-12 and has something to add about R-13a.
It's
>an explosive and very easy to get it to do its thing to. He told me if an
air
>compressor ever failed and started to heat up it blow up a car like a bomb.
I
>don't have any proof about this but it did give me something to think
about.
>BTW, if R-12 is so bad why is the auto industry the only industry that uses
it
>having to use something else. Youo can't tell me that all of the home and
>commercial a/c systems and the factories that use and even all of the
refrig's
>that use it don't leak it. Just another opinion.
>
>Jeff durling
>'96 RC Sport
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