Should have gotten the drinkmate
Are refills locally available? Seems like only mail in. Or easy to adapt to big keg?
They’re mail-in, but they provide the shipping label and you get a hefty coupon.
I’ve been looking into this for past few hrs. Seems like simplisoda is an option some bots or redditors have recommended. They have an option for drinkmate. That or doing the big tank / hose route.
Hey if you’re comfortable handling that risk safely more power to you. CO2 leaks are very dangerous. I have five canisters (so I return 4 at a time) and I only need to make that exchange two or three times a year.
Thinking of putting canister in garage so less risk. Also loom at simplisoda prices… Haven’t used them but 13 or so per can seems good
Drinkmate’s exchange program with coupons also works out to $15 per cylinder when you’re doing a 4-pack, and if you’re really serious about volume, $13.72 per cylinder if you’re doing a master carton of 18
I’m loving my drinkmate
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You’re not wrong
That sounds !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world .
Maybe take the broken CO2 cartridge, add some super glue to the end, screw it back in and - after letting it dry for some hours - try to screw the entire bottle out again.
Alternatively, if you can reach the broken part with a dremel, you could try to make a small cut into it (brass is pretty soft) and use a flat screwdriver in that cut to screw it out.
If successful, please don’t exchange the broken cartridge the regular way but send a mail to the manufacturer to get it exchanged. Otherwise the broken one might find its way into the next unlucky household.
Look on the bright side. At least it’s some of the most expensive bottled CO2 you can get so you don’t want to be wasting that stuff on just any drink. It’s high quality CO2, not some of that fake CO2 that some other gas company would pedal you.
I was just thinking this disassembly was the time to try the CO2 tank conversion. But the tip is stuck in there and dno if I can get it out without breaking plastic cage
I put a big tank on mine. It’s super good!
With a 3rd party adapter kit?
Is it that entire brass threaded bit? (Admittedly, I do not know sodastream anatomy.) Is the brass bit simply screwed in too tight?
If it just needs to be unscrewed, I would use a trick similar to removing header studs on an engine, but modified.
Find two nuts that are the same size thread, but completely round off the corners on one of the nuts. Screw on the unmodified nut half way. Screw on the modified nut as tight as you can against the first nut. Use a socket wrench to apply torque on the first nut and it should give you just enough friction to unscrew the whole thing.
Needle nose pliers might work too.
Its hard to tell via pics but that brass thing is pretty big. Like, bigger than a standard screw. Needle might work but hard to get leverage on anything that deep into it - tho that might be inexperience.
Even if you can get on it with some right angle long needlenose you risk tearing up the brass.
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Then there is heat. Using an oxy acetylene torch to heat up the whole assembly in an attempt to loosen the threads might work. What could go wrong?
