What on earth is this in my air con

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What on earth is this in my air con

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Having a mare at the moment. Any tips on getting the old condenser off?
What the hell is this stuff. Like graphite ?

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Re: What on earth is this in my air con

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Imagine that is as mixture of oil as installed in Aircon systems and potentially written internals from your pump, but I'm only guessing, there shouldn't be anything in the system other than oil and gas, unless someone has tried a leak repair product?
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Re: What on earth is this in my air con

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Yea it's strange. All very flakey stuff. Blew the lines through and new condenser so will see how it goes.
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Re: What on earth is this in my air con

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Re: What on earth is this in my air con

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I was about to post that

It does seem most likely.
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Re: What on earth is this in my air con

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warpc0il wrote:
Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:21 pm
My guess would be
https://www.halfords.com/motoring/engin ... 34448.html
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Proven to stop the aircon working and fixing it completely by changing the whole system now, as even what was OK before is now scrap ...


Im wondering how there was no class law suit against STP for all the damages this product did .... as I didn't hear one good word about it .....