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Originally Posted by pwagon
I've called about 8 shops in my area and all of them insist that they don't have R12 and that no one else could possibly have it (and not in the nice part of town either). I don't want to convert, so is freeze 12 my next best option?
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"Don't want to convert" and "Freeze-12" don't belong in the same sentence.
If you're going to do all your own AC work, you will need recovery equipment. You can dedicate the recovery equipment to whatever refrigerant you desire, and R12 is an option. So would be Freeze-12.
Call those same 8 shops and ask if they will recover Freeze-12 before you put any of that stuff in your system. They will tell you the same thing: no shop will deal with that stuff for you. You will have to buy your own recovery equipment to service your system. If you're going to do that, why not just dedicate that equipment to R12 rather than a blend?
Getting rid of used Freeze-12 is going to be a problem. You will have to pay to ship a cylinder to a recycling plant, and pay to recycle the refrigerant. On the other hand, if you ship them a cylinder of used R12, they will probably pay you.