R12 is difficult to find now a days. It was phased out all the way back in and was replaced with Ra. There are very few places where you can actively buy R today. If you are looking to purchase just one or two cylinders of R then I would recommend shopping online through E-Commerce stores.
There are numerous E-Commerce stores to choose from but I highly recommend that you use E-Bay for your R purchases. E-Bay is extremely customer friendly and they strive for the customer to be happy with their purchase. Purchasers of refrigerant for resale to a Certified Refrigerant Technician. Purchasers of Ra, RA, and refrigerant supplies do not need a license. Automotive Certified Refrigerant Technicians approved by the E. R Refrigerant is usually sold under the brand name Freon, is a chlorofluorocarbon halomethane CFC , used as a refrigerant and aerosol spray propellant.
Downloads Safety Data Sheet. Our Part : SGP There's some good news for owners of cars that use R Freon refrigerant in their air-conditioning systems. Converting to FR is a simple and relatively inexpensive process compared with the complicated conversions to the new Ra refrigerant now used in all new cars. Shade-tree mechanics who have tried to repair their own Rcharged air-conditioning systems know that it's no longer possible to buy those little one-pound cans of R off the shelf at the corner auto-parts store.
Those cans have been gone from public view since Jan. Anyone with the required EPA R certification still can buy the 1-pound cans at auto-parts stores, but the cans are kept in the back and guarded like gold. And, as of Jan. You're probably thinking by now that the new Pennzoil FR probably costs a lot less than R, giving you an incentive to put that in your car system and do away with the R Think again. It's less expensive than R, but it's not cheap. The Freon crisis was brought about by the unproved theory that leaking chlorofluorocarbons CFCs such as R are contributing to the decline of the ozone layer in the Earth's atmosphere.
Politicians and environmentalists bought into the CFC theory and engineered a worldwide pact to drastically curb the use of these compounds. Top Selected Products and Reviews. When was the was the last year car manufacturer's used R12 in the United States? The year was In RA was implemented. R12 is difficult to find now a days. It was phased out all the way back in and was replaced with Ra. There are very few places where you can actively buy R today.
Can you mix r12 and a refrigerant? Can I add Ra directly to my R12 system? Federal law prohibits topping off an R12 system with a different refrigerant. Your options are to locate some R12, however you must be certified to purchase, and add it with an R recharge hose.
Can you use a in place of r12? The oils are different and not compatible and can cause an explosion. Ra is also a smaller molecule than r12 so if you HAD a small leak with r12 that you did not fix you have an even bigger leak now. Ra is so much smaller than r12 that it will leak right through the older hoses used for r
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