The refrigerant disposal keeps me away from them. I called around and could not find anyone willing to extract the refrigerant from one for less than $65. Since I don't get them regularly enough to justify the expense of becoming licensed and purchasing the equipment to do my own extractions, I leave them alone. LOTS of people in my area apparently just cut the line and let the refrigerant leak out, but that $10K fine does not appeal to me in the least!

I am always going to be a part time scrapper, doing it as a hobby, having fun and making a few bucks. There is just no way I could replace my employment income and insurance with scrapping unless I went all in, took a huge business loan to buy a facility, equipment and hire people. So when you're in that situation you have to accept that there are some things you just can't do, and dealing with charged refrigerators and A/C units is one of those things.

Hope this helps.

--Geoff