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Neat items you've bought recently? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Looking for some neat ideas/quality of life improvements aka lifehacks I guess

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[โ€“] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I got a soda machine that uses packets of powder instead of a c02 cannister.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: the CO2 version can actually be made incredibly cheap if you retrofit a decently sized paintball CO2 canister to work with your soda machine (kits can be bought). The biggest difference is that paintball CO2 isn't food grade, but it's pretty common to dismiss this if that's something you're comfortable doing.

    You go from spending however much (think I remember them costing as much as $50 for like, 12oz) on a SodaStream proprietary CO2 canister, to spending like $10-$30 every couple of months on a 20+ oz fillup at your local sporting goods store, and the one time $40-$60 for a decent sized canister that lasts forever. Seriously, I still have my canister from when I played paintball in 2008.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

    I bought an adapter and a 25 liter siphon tank.

    I found a local gas company that will refill my siphon tank with food grade CO2. Because it's a siphon it'll transfer liquid directly into the SodaStream tanks.

    I own five SodaStream tanks. I can refill them about four times out of the siphon tank.

    The siphon tank cost $25 to refill at a semi local gas company.

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