REFILL DIY GAS CYLINDER (for Soda Stream)

[@philbrooksjazz]

I live in Hawaii, and nobody will ship the cartridges here, and the stores (Walmart, etc) don't have them either. Something about the filled tanks shipping by air - not allowed. I refilled them by crushing dry ice, and stuffing it into the tank, (with the valve removed of course). Works great and costs about $1 per tank.

[@PD-gt7on]

I refill my Sodastream CO2 cylinders with clean, food grade dry ice. Purge, measure it out, fill the canisters, reseal. I wouldn't use industrial C02 to fill - you can't guarantee the cleanliness of the filling source, nor of the tank, nor that there aren't impurities in the C02. And I fill all four of my cylinders for less than $5 per cylinder.

[@villyskov]

CO2 is CO2, there is no dirty CO2. It is only the tank that is different and need to be treated as food.

[@PD-gt7on]

Sorry, but that's only partly right.The tanks your use - and how they're filled - makes a BIG difference to the quality of the CO2 you end up using to carbonate your water.

[@philbrooksjazz]

I got the dry ice at Airgas, they didn't know about 'food grade' but all their customers use dry ice for fish storage and shipping. The vid is here on youtube - search for "Refilling sodastream Co2 tanks for $1." Please use gloves!

[@MrRastaVibrations]

@videoben9 it's not a one way valve at all. doing it the way this guy did won't be as effective because he didn't use the bleed valve on the side, but it's definitely not a one way valve

[@villyskov]

This is not a easy or cheap adaptor to make because the security, the pressure in the donortank can be up to 200 bar.

[@themorfill]

CO2 is only stored at 50bar.

[@nachoman1988]

and the pressure in a CO2 cillinder is not 200 bar!! it's more like 40 - 50 bar

[@Anna61210]

Eric mb Soda Stream don't sell the cylinders anymore for the 1960s Soda Stream so that's why this is being done.

[@ughhly]

The cost structure boils down to, about $5.00 each way to courier 6 pack of refilled cylinders, having machinery capable of auto-filling, capping and conveying cylinders during process (approximately 100k worth of machinery) , Paying staff to actually fill, box, and receive and dispatch refilled bottles . Each cylinder is prechecked for obvious damage, and briefly checked for leakage before packaging after filling. Then the seller adds their margin onto the process. The handling fees incurred is probably most of the cost of the refill, the CO2 in the quantitys bought would be in the cents per liter.

[@robertlee635]

+ughhly Good thing I'm not Soda Stream with their highly inefficient system of doing things. If I have to make a choice between supporting an unnecessarily complex logistical chain vs saving substantial sums by refilling it myself (or taking it to a restaurant supply house) I'll avoid purchasing refills from Soda Stream.

[@ughhly]

You could say that about many goods we purchase. Having a cylinder that can safely take the knocks a soda stream cylinder does, and still perform is pretty cool. As part of the filling process you know your cylinder is good, the gas is food grade, and there should be no foriegn bodies in it. Your process may be cheaper, why not at that size cylinder go for a post mix machine.

[@robertlee635]

I reuse the soda stream cylinders and the gas is from a restaurant supply. No issues with either.

[@nachoman1988]

Hi everyone! Because I read a lot comments of people who worry about the quality of the co2 in industrial cilinders and cilinders for food. Myself, I work in a company where we fill CO2 and i analyse them as wel. for food co2 or gourmet as they say, the norm of h20 and 02 contamination is so high that it's always good!! the only difference in industrial and food CO2 is, that we have to analyse it as a proof of: this is ok! but the norm is always fine (sorry for my enlish :-p)

[@MrSwanley]

Not true. Yes, CO2 is CO2, like water is water. But you can have contaminated CO2 just like you can have contaminated water. Food safe CO2 is of course safe. Welding CO2 should also be safe (bad CO2 might affect the weld). There is no reason for paintball or fire extinguisher CO2 to be especially clean, so I certainly wouldnt just assume that it is.

[@lukedennislssbb9952]

If this CO2 needs to be food grade.

[@TMTAgency]

+Luke Dennis all same

[@videoben9]

you know what else is funny? when people get pissed off at facts they see in youtube comments and call the person who knows what their talking about an idiot

[@yanivabuh]

its wary dangeres

[@KillerJoeFIN]

This can be dangerous if you dont use co2 gas for food usage... if you use industrial co2 gas its dirtyer and not so clean etc.

[@kryznic1]

What's the point of this effin video? Zero info going on here!

[@videoben9]

u know wats funny? this doesnt work bcuz it a one way valve. the only way you can refill the tank yourself is with dry ice or fucking up the piece that blocks refilling