HedleyLamar
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I realize this will upset the fellows in the A/C business. I use to be in the business but departed a long time ago. This is for the folks who are tired of sweating their A**/Freezing (if heatpump...I'll get to that later) off while working on their Car, Hoopty, Whip, Airplane or spacecraft in the garage/shop. This isn't a manifesto to take food out of a AC Contractor/Techs mouth it's just a way to have a comfy shop for way less then the majority of postings here.
First of all the EPA licensing requirement has to be meet so you can (legally) work on your own Ghetto A/C unit. Mainly you need this so you can buy your Refrigerant. Yes it's refrigerant it isn't "Freon". Freon was patented by Dupont and is/was a patented process like Coke. It doesn't matter just don't use the word "Freon" with anybody in the business. You will be branded as a DumbA$$. What were looking for is mainly R22 "REFRIGERANT" and the system's which use it. Look over this site at the end of this paragraph. You need the 608 Type 1 license. The review is on the website and make a few notes. The test is open book. Pay the cash and take the test and they will mail you your 608 type 1 license. That's all you need to buy the "Refrigerant" that you will need. Now if you know someone who will pull a vacuum and charge your Ghetto Masterpiece or have achieved the Waddell Wilson/Smokey Yunick level of mechanicmaness and decide to use Propane as a "Refrigerant" your good to go. All you need is a set of service gauges and a vacuum pump.
http://epatest.com/
The test is 25 questions and a pre (No Child Left Behind Student) can pass it after studying for one hour. Pay your $25.00 Dollars/Yen and you will become a member of the EPA Certificated Fraternity of Ozone/Squirrel Savers of the USA. They will mail the coveted certificate to you promptly. The doors to Ghetto Coolieness will open for you once you become a Certificated Ozone/Squirrel Saver member.
If your resourceful, you can find someone in the business and 9 times out of ten the techs will have a "take off" from a job. This is what we are are looking for to cool/heat your manly palace. A lot of people are switching their A/C units to the new super throwdown Millinium Trickulator Seer 18/20 priced out the ying-yang units. These rnew units are mandated by law to run the Squirrel friendly R410A. These run at higher pressures and as you see in pricing information, high pressures and save the Squirrels means bend over and pay thru the you know what. BTW you can run a R22 system on Propane. Don't try it with R410A. Don't buy a unit which hasn't been pumped down into the outside compressor/coil. You don't desire the headache of **** swimming around in your system. A good tech will pump the system down into the outside coil and seal the system and especially the service valve line set connections. The main thing is if the coil/compressor unit is still holding pressure you will know it doesn't have a large spewing leak. Just stay with a R22 takeoff, straight cool or heat pump doesn't matter. If you go straight cool you can always use the heat strips for heat. The heat strips will be costly to run but a heat pump doesn't work worth **** below 45 degree's in my opinion. I live in the South and a heater isn't really needed for a Man Palace and a substitute like a portable heat is really better than trying to heat a garage for 10 days a year. If you can't find a unit thru your buddies just check Craigslist. There is a hugh supply of take offs on the market at this point in time. No don't buy a unit from a crackhead who just chopped it off the pad at the "4th Rightiousness and Holyness Diverse Mount Zion Royal Chapel of Scriptures". They will be Pi&&ed and you will go to jail. Just ask to meet the fellow and google up the local of the meeting place. and try to get a little history. If it's behind the "Club Vertigo" at 2:00 AM you should realize it could be a problem.
To Be Continued.
First of all the EPA licensing requirement has to be meet so you can (legally) work on your own Ghetto A/C unit. Mainly you need this so you can buy your Refrigerant. Yes it's refrigerant it isn't "Freon". Freon was patented by Dupont and is/was a patented process like Coke. It doesn't matter just don't use the word "Freon" with anybody in the business. You will be branded as a DumbA$$. What were looking for is mainly R22 "REFRIGERANT" and the system's which use it. Look over this site at the end of this paragraph. You need the 608 Type 1 license. The review is on the website and make a few notes. The test is open book. Pay the cash and take the test and they will mail you your 608 type 1 license. That's all you need to buy the "Refrigerant" that you will need. Now if you know someone who will pull a vacuum and charge your Ghetto Masterpiece or have achieved the Waddell Wilson/Smokey Yunick level of mechanicmaness and decide to use Propane as a "Refrigerant" your good to go. All you need is a set of service gauges and a vacuum pump.
http://epatest.com/
The test is 25 questions and a pre (No Child Left Behind Student) can pass it after studying for one hour. Pay your $25.00 Dollars/Yen and you will become a member of the EPA Certificated Fraternity of Ozone/Squirrel Savers of the USA. They will mail the coveted certificate to you promptly. The doors to Ghetto Coolieness will open for you once you become a Certificated Ozone/Squirrel Saver member.
If your resourceful, you can find someone in the business and 9 times out of ten the techs will have a "take off" from a job. This is what we are are looking for to cool/heat your manly palace. A lot of people are switching their A/C units to the new super throwdown Millinium Trickulator Seer 18/20 priced out the ying-yang units. These rnew units are mandated by law to run the Squirrel friendly R410A. These run at higher pressures and as you see in pricing information, high pressures and save the Squirrels means bend over and pay thru the you know what. BTW you can run a R22 system on Propane. Don't try it with R410A. Don't buy a unit which hasn't been pumped down into the outside compressor/coil. You don't desire the headache of **** swimming around in your system. A good tech will pump the system down into the outside coil and seal the system and especially the service valve line set connections. The main thing is if the coil/compressor unit is still holding pressure you will know it doesn't have a large spewing leak. Just stay with a R22 takeoff, straight cool or heat pump doesn't matter. If you go straight cool you can always use the heat strips for heat. The heat strips will be costly to run but a heat pump doesn't work worth **** below 45 degree's in my opinion. I live in the South and a heater isn't really needed for a Man Palace and a substitute like a portable heat is really better than trying to heat a garage for 10 days a year. If you can't find a unit thru your buddies just check Craigslist. There is a hugh supply of take offs on the market at this point in time. No don't buy a unit from a crackhead who just chopped it off the pad at the "4th Rightiousness and Holyness Diverse Mount Zion Royal Chapel of Scriptures". They will be Pi&&ed and you will go to jail. Just ask to meet the fellow and google up the local of the meeting place. and try to get a little history. If it's behind the "Club Vertigo" at 2:00 AM you should realize it could be a problem.
To Be Continued.
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