^^^^anyone else reading this? He has a good point which I didn't bring up. And he is also right, I should have converted to R134a and in the long run it would have been cheaper. With mine I was concerned about the age of the car and it's a/c componants. I was concerned the compressor wouldn't be able to take the extra stress of conversion. (R134a systems have slightly higher pressures). Nobody will convert your system to R134a and tell you that it will be a guarenteed success and that your compressor won't blow in 2 months. I think chances are it would have been fine but this is my car and i'm wierd that way. Accords seem to convert easily between R12 and R134a without problems, however I would recommend not to do it to a civic with a half condensor/half rad. I have never seen good results from the ones i did it to and i ended up converting them back. The high side pressure always spikes way to high and cooling in the cabin is weak. Around 45-50 f degees.

To comment on the R12, Ebay is a good source of old R12, I found it at places like PEP boys, kragens, napa, etc... Here's the catch, you have to have a lic. to buy it.
It's called a section 609 and it's easy to get. Do a seach if you're interested. Every year the price goes up. Get it why you can I guess.