Originally posted by Contouraholic:
...... In fact, on CFC equipment, if moisture was present in the system it would form hydrochloric acid. Without chlorine, 134a cannot form it. Both r12 and r134a however form hydroflouric acid when mixed with water. .......




Really ? Hydrofluoric acid ? That is the nastiest ass stuff I have come across. It's an acid but it doesn't burn so you don't know you've been exposed till the bone in the exposed part of your body is eaten up (the acid attacks the calcium in bone) Nice.


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