taterjuice 
E-bay can be your friend.... look on there for the vacuum pump and hoses/gauge set... usually not sold together..... As for the lines with no shrader valve, like feronjoe said, line taps... what it is, is... a 2 piece clamp that you put over the line and tighten down.... there is a place on one side to hook up your hose and on the other side is a screw that you tighten down onto the line that pierces the copper tubing, then you back it out a little bit to allow the gas to flow to the shrader valve.
I too would like to take the recovery course.. I can take it online thru a college in Kelowna, British Columbia that offers it... Thankfully all the a/c units I get to scrap have had the freon removed already for me
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