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Originally Posted by Bob Kontak (Post 11155891)

Sam's Club has soda syrup but it's on-line. Five gallons (ugh) - $60 for off brand Cola and $100 for name brand like Dr Pepper but did not see the Coca-Cola brand.

5 gallons of syrup makes a LOT of soda.

I still have about 20 Cornelius (Soda Kegs). These were exchange kegs used by Coke and the others to supply syrup. Today, they use disposable "packs".

We've had a soda stream for years because we were consuming two 2 liter bottles of soda water a day and got tired of all the plastic waste. The refills have always been outrageously expensive in my opinion. I bought one of these way back then and it was the best investment. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=soda+stream+refill+adapter Here, the grow shops all stock the big CO2 bottles for $7 and now I fill several friends bottles too.
Also, if you can use the larger of the 2 soda stream bottles, it saves a lot of changes.

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Originally Posted by wdfifteen (Post 11155686)

I used to get CO2 canisters at Kroger or Best Buy. For the past 6 months Kroger's supply has been erratic and Best Buy has been non-existent.
I got a Soda Sense account and bought two additional bottles. They send them in a reusable box. When I have two empties I send them back. I really didn't need three bottles since the turn around time is a matter of a few days, but I didn't know that at the time.
The cost to exchange is $19 each bottle (about 2 bucks cheaper than Kroger). Sounded like a good deal, especially since the website said "Free Shipping" all over it. Turned out free shipping only applied to the initial purchase. So many people complained that they now ship exchange bottles free.

https://www.amazon.com/Soda-Sense-Cylinder-Cartridge-Refill/dp/B07WHHW2Y2

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Originally Posted by group911@aol.co (Post 11156217)

Here, the grow shops all stock the big CO2 bottles for $7

Grow shops?
That sounds like a great solution if you use that much.

It is a great solution even for moderate refilling. Somebody smarter than me can probably figure out how many refills you can get from one 20 pound cylinder at $7.
The "grow" supply houses have really brought competition to the "gardening" supply shops around here. https://www.waytogrow.net/

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Originally Posted by wdfifteen (Post 11156222)

Grow shops?
That sounds like a great solution if you use that much.

I was looking at our local online auction site and there were connectors that can refill the sodatream gas cylinder from a welder's size CO2 cylinder.

Umm, I'd be a bit nervous about the pressures etc.

My lady has one and uses it all day every day. She only makes fizzy water with it, then adds flavoring in the glass if she wants. Yes, it is much cheaper than buying bottles of fizzy water. And it creates less plastic waste.

Same pressure.

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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas (Post 11156962)

Umm, I might look into it further.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1609128381.jpg

^ You made me go look at my system pressure. The charge tank is 300 +/- psi. The CO2 system is around 120 psi, and the water pressure where the CO2 and water pre-mix and the water receives a charge is at 90+/- PSI. It would seem that you might get that with a Soda Stream.

We use ours to make sparkling grape juice from our grapes and not much else.

We buy these for soda. https://www.sprecherbrewery.com/soda/

This is good also:
https://products.blains.com/600/82/825491.webp