The Refrigerant Sales Restriction | Ozone Layer Protection - Regulatory Programs | US EPA talks about restrictions on buying and selling refrigerants. No mention of giving it away. Hypothetically, is it legal to give someone (who is not 609 certified) say a 30 lb tank of R12?

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highly, highly doubtful. otherwise people could just sell pencils to each other for $30 a piece and then give a can of R12 as a "free gift"

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Of course...as long as you're not a business.

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Yeah, that covers sale and purchase. Nothing about transfer of ownership aka gifting. The only way I could see it being illegal to gift it to someone without a 609 cert would be if R12 was illegal to possess without a 609 cert. It's not explicitly illegal to possess it without, so it should be OK.

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If it were illegal to give to someone without a cert, you would be in trouble every time you sold a car with a charge of R-12. Which brings things back to the old "container" absurdity of refrigerants. It's illegal to vent R-134 to the atmosphere from a "container" comprised of an auto A/C system but if you buy it in a can packaged in a container labeled as a keyboard duster, it's completely legal.

You're overthinking the situation...just don't have any paperwork.

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• Manx
• Baja Bug
• F350 Powerstroke
• Auburn Boattail Speedster replica

For $25 bucks and around 2 hours, you can get your license, so it's really not worth the risk IMO. Why risk it?

I know this does not answer your question.

Seems to me it's a ploy to just get your money.

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85 300D turbo pristine w 157k when purchased 161K now
83 300 D turbo 297K runs great. SOLD!
83 240D 4 spd manual- parted out then junked

Nor does it cover bartering R12 for something other than cash?

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85 300D turbo pristine w 157k when purchased 161K now
83 300 D turbo 297K runs great. SOLD!
83 240D 4 spd manual- parted out then junked

Its my birthday, can I get it as a gift?

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If you're giving it away, I'll take it. Just sayin'.

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To conspiracy theorists.... yes....
but regular people understand the test is just a way to make sure that at least at one point in time... that person knew what the rules were...

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chain elongation, cam marks reference:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/10414-help-i-need-check-stretch.html

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/305365-9-degrees-chain-stretch.html

evap fin cleaning:

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/156207-photo-step-step-post-showing-w123-evaporator-removal-1983-240d-1982-300td.html?highlight=evaporator

A/C thread

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/297462-c-recommendations-mb-vehicles.html

Sorry, I have none to give away. Hopefully I'll be on the receiving end.

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85 300D turbo pristine w 157k when purchased 161K now
83 300 D turbo 297K runs great. SOLD!
83 240D 4 spd manual- parted out then junked