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by **lantius** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:51 pm

I refill my CO2 at Central Welding in Ballard, bought a 5lb tank once and it's like $8 to swap it for a full one.

by **caustic meatloaf** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:08 pm

AAA fire AND Safety right near the nickerson will refill CO2 tanks as well.

by **lantius** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:14 pm

Anyhow, don't you guys just get your carbonated water out of the sparkling water tap at work?

by **Chip McShoulder** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:21 pm

by **langston** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:22 pm

by **Chip McShoulder** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:22 pm

by **Bo Ttorff** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:40 pm

Airgas charges 21 tax included for a 10# bottle exchange.

by **Chip McShoulder** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:44 pm

by **langston** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:04 pm

by **Bo Ttorff** » Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:09 pm

by **fatasian** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:16 am

tell me more. hilary drinks fizzy water like mad. is it worth the purchase. we often get 2L bottle 5 for 5 when they are on sale at Ballard Market.

by **Alex** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:15 am

I don't know where to refill paintball CO2 cylinders in Seattle anymore. I used to do it at Butch's guns and used them for my portable homebrew beer setup (which I just sold on Saturday). I think you have to go out to the 'burbs now.

You could build a system that used a 5lb welding CO2 cylinder, they are easily refilled at Central Welding. It's common homebrew equipment to make fizzy water (instead of beer) using a soda/homebrew 3 or 5 gallon keg, CO2 regulator, and CO2 cylinder.

by **Chip McShoulder** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:37 am

by **caustic meatloaf** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:05 am

by **joeball** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:54 am

So is all bulk CO2 "food grade" ?

I had some paintball tanks from my youth buy I guess they only have a 10 yr stamp on them so mine expired in the last millennium.

I found it interesting how far back dates. It's a proprietary system that marks up a cheap commodity (CO2) which is what irked me. They also feel like flimsy pieces of plastic, kitchen crap which I have strong bias against. So far we just buy a few talking rain bottles when they are on sale (~$0.50/L).

by **Chip McShoulder** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 1:36 pm

No. While CO2 is CO2, there are grades of purity. I think food grade is 99.90%, while industrial grade is 99%. If that last one percent contains benzene, it might make you sick.

I don't know how common this is, or if a supplier can know their industrial co2 doesn't have any dangerous impurities. I think lots of people do it anyway.

by **Alex** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:51 pm

CO2 is CO2 for all practical purposes. The bars and the welders get the same stuff from the same suppliers.

by **lantius** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:39 pm

Screw you guys, I'm going to carbonate my drinks with CO3. Just gotta scoop some up from the drift zone of the local negative corona discharge.

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