Robinair (34102) Refrigerant Tank for R-134a, refrigerant not included - 30 lbs. , Light Blue

It's a recovery tank for R-134a refrigerant, with 1/2" ACME fittings. One reviewer said you would need an adapter in order to connect your gauges to this tanks. This is true. Typically, R-134a hoses on a manifold gauge set with either have your hi/low side adapters on them, or the adapter end will be 14mm M. Robinair makes an adapter # 16301 that is 1/2" AMCE female, with R-134a low side port fitting for the male (I picked mine up at O'reilly for less than 10 bucks). Use your yellow charge line to connect the manifold set to the vacuum pump, then use the Blue low side hose with adapter to connect to the 16301 fitting you've installed on the tank, turn on vacuum pump, open blue manifold valve, plus the tank valve in which you've connect manifold to the tank (this is after you've purged the nitrogen that was shipped in the tank which can simply be purged in to the atmosphere). Pull a vacuum (let mine pull to 29 in.), close the low side (blue) valve on your manifold set, turn off pump and let it set for about 15 minutes. If vacuum is retained, close tank valve and you are done. If some vacuum is lost, turn pump on, open blue valve on manifold and pull vacuum again.Edited to mention that the tank I received didn't come with a plugged port for the 80% tank shut off valve. Might be important to some and it is pictured as such, but I weigh and log what goes in my tank, so no biggie to me.

When you are looking for FREON and checking the lists for prices you don't notice the can is empty in small print .. They list it with cans WITH freon in the same price RANGE .. Very sneaky , very CROOKED ..

The robinair refrigerant recovery tank worked as expected. I've had no issues with it. I do believe the price could have been a little lower, but other than that it has been useful. Thank you.

Great replacement tank

The Tank welds were fine ,except for the welds on the top ring had a little under cut. The paint looked goodand there were no dents on the tank. The liquid and vapor valve opened and closed well. When i pulled a vacuum on the tank it held -30 vacuum and did not leak down at all. The only other thing i found was the test date for recertifying the tank is 9-21 i just purchased it 9-22. For the most part i am happy with my purchase. I will be using this tank to recapture R-134 A from A/C systems on cars and trucks. S J Witt

I received this item and it was brand new as described. So far so good, until I discovered that the plug on top was impossibly tight that I could not budge it even with a breaker bar. I wanted to install a new float switch so that I can connect the cylinder to 80% cut off switch on my new recovery machine, which I also bought separately. After trying for about 45 minutes, and a bucket full of sweat on my wife's favorite carpet, I waved the white flag. Yep, I gave up. I have now a new cylinder without a float switch, and a new float switch without a cylinder. I thought about licking the plug with an oxyacetylene tip thinking that applying high heat may unlock this demon, but my concern that I may end up causing damage to the whole cylinder and proving to my wife that I am inadequate with my hands, dissuaded me.This cylinder comes with some nitrogen in it and a warning you cannot miss on this hat-looking paper stuck on top of the cylinder that tells the happy buyer to discharge the nitrogen and to evacuate the cylinder according to specifications before using it. There are no specs. You have learned in your refrigeration class that pulling a minimum of 500 micron vacuum is critical if you want to re-use the American invention called Freon.I hope to hear from someone who has done this before, meaning, someone who has gone the cheap route of buying the cylinder and the float switch separately, and successfully managed to remove the top plug and install the switch. Now I have to deal with my Mastercool Cylinder, where the plug for the switch seems a size a Billion Star shap that requires a wrench that probably the manufacturer has.Americans by their good nature and habit are very good at helping one another. For me this is a crisis, and t would appreciate it if someone helped me.If I do not hear from anyone by the time the next weekend (weekend following labor day 2013) comes, I will do what my father did one time.When this happened to him, and no one would help, he just used the darn thing and forgot about the float switch and the EPA recommendations, and cussed whoever invented the float switch to begin with. Ooops that was a joke. Thank you for your help!!

This unit is a storage Tank for the R-134a refrigerant. It's the same as buying a propane tank, its going to be empty. This is designed for those who are extracting and recovering refrigerant. The price was the cheapest I can find and it came new as advertised. It looks exactly as the picture displays. a Low and High side valve. You need to purge the tank before use!

It's very confusing when your looking for the best deal on a tank of freon. but when you sell an empty tank at the same price that you can buy a full tank people who are buying it think is full. but it's just an empty 30 # tank that you have to send back I'll be more careful next time.