Hello all,
Now that what we call 'summer' is nearly upon us in the alleged 'united kingdom', I'm once again having very stupid thoughts about trying to get my aircon working, I'm attempting to source a r134a retrofit kit, but the major problem I've got is that, a lot of the aluminium pipes have corroded/snapped, does anyone here know if the snapped ends once cleaned, can safely be joined with high pressure rubber pipe? Do the pipes have to be aluminium? Could 10mm copper be used instead to totally replace the rigid piping runs, obviously it would have to be bent round corners, but it would be cheaper and easier, the only problems I can foresee would be the flaring and sizing of the unions, and the probability of galvanic reactions where it joins ally components, but this happens anyway where the ally piping joins copper such as at the condensor.
At the moment I'm just fishing around for ideas so that I have to pay as few thieving 'proffessionals' as possible, because everything always seems to cost 4 times as much here, than anywhere else, I.E. in the US the entire retrofit kit can cost less than what I would have to pay for any single simple volvo gasket and one or two simple volvo O-rings here.
Rant off :-)
Any and all ideas welcome, thanks in advance.
Ken Phillips, Blackburn, EnglandHello all,
Now that what we call 'summer' is nearly upon us in the alleged 'united kingdom', I'm once again having very stupid thoughts about trying to get my aircon working, I'm attempting to source a r134a retrofit kit, but the major problem I've got is that, a lot of the aluminium pipes have corroded/snapped, does anyone here know if the snapped ends once cleaned, can safely be joined with high pressure rubber pipe? Do the pipes have to be aluminium? Could 10mm copper be used instead to totally replace the rigid piping runs, obviously it would have to be bent round corners, but it would be cheaper and easier, the only problems I can foresee would be the flaring and sizing of the unions, and the probability of galvanic reactions where it joins ally components, but this happens anyway where the ally piping joins copper such as at the condensor.
At the moment I'm just fishing around for ideas so that I have to pay as few thieving 'proffessionals' as possible, because everything always seems to cost 4 times as much here, than anywhere else, I.E. in the US the entire retrofit kit can cost less than what I would have to pay for any single simple volvo gasket and one or two simple volvo O-rings here.
Rant off :-)
Any and all ideas welcome, thanks in advance.
Ken Phillips, Blackburn, England