Kegland Sodastream - Looking for Refilling Tips for 6kg CO2 Cylinder

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  DingoBlue on 15/12/2022 - 19:32

  +2

  Just hook it up direct to your soda maker, so much easier.

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    Hurg on 15/12/2022 - 19:35

    +2

    I dunno, think the missus might not be happy with a giant cylinder sitting on the kitchen bench XD

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      mapax on 15/12/2022 - 19:44

      Don’t the cool kids run lines through the kitchen bench or wall and have the tanks elsewhere?

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      djc on 15/04/2023 - 13:13

      I have mine hooked up directly and living in the pantry.

      At a previous house, I had to set it up under the sink.

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  craigoss on 15/12/2022 - 19:41

  +1

  When I use to refill the cylinders I'd turn the tank upside down, even then, after the first couple of refills the amount you could get out would drop off substantially. I also put my ear to the tank so I could hear the gas coming out. I ended up getting a hose and having the whole setup in th garage…. way easier.

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  altomic on 15/12/2022 - 20:39

  Wait for the filling sound to finish and then let it keep filling for another minute

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  iamherenow on 16/12/2022 - 15:30

  Much easier if you get the refill adapter with two taps and the valve opening knob (about $50 on aliexpress). Instead of the pressure differential between the cylinders keeping the valve open on the small cylinder, the knob does this. So it's not a game of trying to keep the valve open with high enough pressure from the large cylinder - but not too high that the small cylinder shuts off the flow.

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    salmon123 on 16/12/2022 - 23:36

    link?

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      iamherenow on 17/12/2022 - 08:38

      "24" Soda CO2 Tank Bottle Fill Refill Station Kobalt Stream Adapter for Australia or New Zealand" from "spunky Official Store" $36.95

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  Ulysses31 on 18/12/2022 - 20:20

  +1

  I went from zero to full kegland large kit. Including the supposed easy fill adapter.

  Took a bit of messing-around to get the hang of it. Large cylinder upside down, resting on a short ladder. Absolutely microscopic turning of the valve. Get the seal to unseat, and start filling FAST. No probs. Laughing.

  Did 2 of them. And another 2 maybe a month later. Nothing but hell after that. Kept blowing the tiny o-rings on the adapter. Needed oven mitts, to avoid freezing hands. Dodgy fills, and eventually a cylinder that needing shutting SO hard to avoid it leaking. Could only use sodaking cylinders, due to old style connection (apparently, sodastream made new ones unfillable).

  Gave up for 6mths… eventually came back to an EMPTY cylinder.

  Ergh. Never struggled so much with an apparently simple task. And I’m a fitter & turner by trade.

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    salmon123 on 18/12/2022 - 20:35

    Similar experience here - I have half a dozen Sodastream/kegland cannisters. First round of refills went well - most getting close to 425g.

    Second round I'm only getting 100-200g in each.

    My 6kg tank still has 1kg of CO2.

    I wonder if that device above really helps.

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  salmon123 on 15/04/2023 - 14:53

  I had my 6l tank refilled a few weeks ago and it's much easier to refill the 450g bottles now.

  Basically as the level drops in the big tank it becomes harder to refill the smaller bottles, which makes some sense, I guess. The shop said they use a pump to help the refilling process, otherwise it's hard to get to the right capacity.

  The two tap refill adaptor doesn't help refilling when the big bottle is running low. It just helps with the newer soda stream bottles that don't refill when you open the valve too fast.