Old glass soda siphons (NOT Sparlets type) – can they be opened?
Can the old fashioned ( 1050’s 60’s ) glass soda siphons be re-filled at home ? I realize that they cannot easily be pressurised at home but I intend to put home made Ginger Beer into them and so the natural pressure from the brew will be sufficient to allow dispensing.
Eli
on November 30th, -0001
I thought they used to be sent back to the producer for refilling. Have you tried to unscrew the top off the glass bottle? I can follow your reasoning to put home made ginger beer which will generate the pressure to dispense the product but I think the fermentation will generate too much pressure before the ginger beer is ready. If you fill the siphon to 80% or so there could be huge pressure build up and blow the glass. If you only fill to 50% there is less chance of overpressure but the benefit of having the siphon will not be realised.
BloodFlower
on November 30th, -0001
I’m not aware that it can be done at home.
They used to be returned to the manufacturer for refilling and resale
Kiichiro
on December 19th, 2015
Nah, I like to frame these numebrs along these lines.If you earn $100,000.00 a year (I like that numebr because people can imagine it, whether they earn $10K or $50K) it would take you 10 years to earn $1M.That usually give them an idea of what we are talking about.I then tell them it would take them 10,000 years to earn a billion. That really drives it home exactly what billions mean.Then I add the coup de grace.It would take you 10,000,000 (yeah, that’s 10 million) years to earn a TRILLION.Then we equate that to the budget proposals from the White house. If every worker in the US earned $100K a year, it would take 40 million of them paying 100% of their earnings into the tax system to pay for Obama’s spending budget.Oh, let’s add that there are only about 100M people working in the US, so that is about half.(Double check my numebrs there, it is late, and I am doing the math in my head.)