EskiBrew
Regular.
This question has been at the back of my mind for some considerable time.
Background:
I always used to keep my CO2 pub gas cylinder attached to my kegerator in the living room. When my first son was born I decided I needed to ensure it could not be pulled over however at about the same time someone pointed me to a report from the HSE into CO2 cylinder explosions in the beer dispensing industry. I'm not sure if it was a bad year or not but there were quite a few reported cases of CO2 bottle explosions, several of which resulted in partial demolition of the building they were in stored/used :shock:
The primary reason given for it in the report was the poor storage of the cylinders - e.g. left out in the rain with their taps open until collected and then bashed about on a lorry. Since I was not in control of how a bottle had been abused previously, I immediately revised my situation and the CO2 cylinder has lived in the shed ever since - the thought of it exploding in my living room while my kids are about chilled me to the bone. The cylinder now comes in for a few minutes when a top-up is required but never when the kids are around.
When I started brewing I had a boots aluminium pressure barrel and I used to use SodaStream cylinders to inject CO2. I have several empty cylinders which I could press back into use. My thoughts being that a small sodastream cylinder that has been well stored and well treated by me should be much less likely to explode in the first place and if it did should be less likely to cause significant damage - perhaps someone will tell me different :wha:
Anyway, searching on the internet today shows quite a few people do this already and there are videos showing how to fill to a certain weight. It seems that filling to a pressure is not adequate since the pressure is dependant on the temperature and is not an indicator of the amount in the bottle. Having said that, I would be quite happy filling to say a tenth of the original weight if that makes it safer?
Now I could potentially make an adaptor on the lathe to allow me to connect a sodastream bottle to my CO2 bottle but the number of people that already do this leads me to think someone knows where I can get a ready made one - saving me time on the lathe
Does anyone on the forum do this?
Does anyone have a link to where I can buy an adaptor?
Background:
I always used to keep my CO2 pub gas cylinder attached to my kegerator in the living room. When my first son was born I decided I needed to ensure it could not be pulled over however at about the same time someone pointed me to a report from the HSE into CO2 cylinder explosions in the beer dispensing industry. I'm not sure if it was a bad year or not but there were quite a few reported cases of CO2 bottle explosions, several of which resulted in partial demolition of the building they were in stored/used :shock:
The primary reason given for it in the report was the poor storage of the cylinders - e.g. left out in the rain with their taps open until collected and then bashed about on a lorry. Since I was not in control of how a bottle had been abused previously, I immediately revised my situation and the CO2 cylinder has lived in the shed ever since - the thought of it exploding in my living room while my kids are about chilled me to the bone. The cylinder now comes in for a few minutes when a top-up is required but never when the kids are around.
When I started brewing I had a boots aluminium pressure barrel and I used to use SodaStream cylinders to inject CO2. I have several empty cylinders which I could press back into use. My thoughts being that a small sodastream cylinder that has been well stored and well treated by me should be much less likely to explode in the first place and if it did should be less likely to cause significant damage - perhaps someone will tell me different :wha:
Anyway, searching on the internet today shows quite a few people do this already and there are videos showing how to fill to a certain weight. It seems that filling to a pressure is not adequate since the pressure is dependant on the temperature and is not an indicator of the amount in the bottle. Having said that, I would be quite happy filling to say a tenth of the original weight if that makes it safer?
Now I could potentially make an adaptor on the lathe to allow me to connect a sodastream bottle to my CO2 bottle but the number of people that already do this leads me to think someone knows where I can get a ready made one - saving me time on the lathe
Does anyone on the forum do this?
Does anyone have a link to where I can buy an adaptor?
