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Cordale McCoy – How to Recover Refrigerant from an HVAC System

Cordale McCoy–HVAC Workshop Mat–Jun 2026

Written By: Thomas Vaughn

Published: May 29, 2026

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HVAC Technical Academy
Sanford, Florida
May–June Session

Hello, my name is Cordale McCoy. I’m here at HVAC Technical Academy.

I am going to go over the recovery process.

Right here we have our scale, our recovery tank, our recovery machine, our gauges, and an extra hose.

The reason we have our scale is we’re going to weigh our recovery tank to make sure we have the capacity to incorporate the refrigerant that we’re taking out into the tank.

And I’ve already made sure that the refrigerant we’re pulling out is the same refrigerant that’s going into the tank because you cannot mix refrigerants.

We’re going to take our gauges. We’re going to connect our gauges to the high and low side.

We’re going to connect our refrigerant line to our IN.

And we’re going to take this extra hose. We’re going to connect that to our OUT.

And that’s going to go to our tank on the liquid side.

We’re going to purge our hoses before we start the recovery process to make sure there’s nothing in our lines.

And then we’re going to begin the recovery process.

After the recovery process, after we reach the capacity for our tank and our scale, we’re going to work in reverse.

Make sure we remove everything and close our lines.

And that’s it.

Thank you for watching the video. See you next time.