Nick Brown
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Hi all,
I hope someone with a little knowledge can resolve my frustrations!
I started my refill journey with an Adams Gas cylinder with an RPV, and a straight through adaptor (I didn’t know about RPVs then) and a newish sodastream cylinder.
There’s no dip tube/siphon stripes or marks on the donor cylinder.
The first two fills when the donor cylinder was inverted and the valve was cracked slowly netted me about 200g each time of CO2 in the pre-frozen sodastream cylinder.
After those initial fills (and usage), now I can hardly get any more than about 5grams of gas in. I press the valve centre on the cylinder to empty out all CO2 in advance and always freeze the cylinder. Every time I hear the gas start flowing then it stops after a few seconds. I tried waiting up to 10 minutes.
I thought that it may have been the sodastream cylinder so bought a new refillable brass valve for the cylinder. That didn’t work. I tried the original sodastream valve again that didn’t work and whatever little gas went in slowly hissed out of the valve once disconnected from the adapter.
I then realised that I had an RPV on the donor, so bought an adapter with an RPV pin. Still no joy.
I have also tried filling un-inverted.
So I have spent £107 and only managed the equivalent of 1 x full sodastream cylinder refill.
Maybe £10 a refill at Wilkinson’s doesn’t seem so bad.
Has anyone got any ideas please?
Thanks
I hope someone with a little knowledge can resolve my frustrations!
I started my refill journey with an Adams Gas cylinder with an RPV, and a straight through adaptor (I didn’t know about RPVs then) and a newish sodastream cylinder.
There’s no dip tube/siphon stripes or marks on the donor cylinder.
The first two fills when the donor cylinder was inverted and the valve was cracked slowly netted me about 200g each time of CO2 in the pre-frozen sodastream cylinder.
After those initial fills (and usage), now I can hardly get any more than about 5grams of gas in. I press the valve centre on the cylinder to empty out all CO2 in advance and always freeze the cylinder. Every time I hear the gas start flowing then it stops after a few seconds. I tried waiting up to 10 minutes.
I thought that it may have been the sodastream cylinder so bought a new refillable brass valve for the cylinder. That didn’t work. I tried the original sodastream valve again that didn’t work and whatever little gas went in slowly hissed out of the valve once disconnected from the adapter.
I then realised that I had an RPV on the donor, so bought an adapter with an RPV pin. Still no joy.
I have also tried filling un-inverted.
So I have spent £107 and only managed the equivalent of 1 x full sodastream cylinder refill.
Maybe £10 a refill at Wilkinson’s doesn’t seem so bad.
Has anyone got any ideas please?
Thanks