On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:40:25 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:08:40 -0800, JR North
wrote:

I resolved it by overcharging slightly, and bleeding off a
little at a time until the compressor ran constantly with the door


You doomed the entire planet with your release of CFCs!!!!

No he didn't - R-134 is not R-12.

But if you are going to all the trouble of grabbing a torch, you
braze in permanent access fittings so you can do it again in a few
years. If it's got a slow leak you'll probably have to do it again
every 5 to 10 years.

Then you go over it really carefully with a leak sniffer to see if
you can find the super slow leak that caused it to come up empty on
you. If it's a less than perfect joint you can rebraze...

-- Bruce --