Soda siphon teardown.
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- Опубликовано: 14 ноя 2019
- Despite these things being a bit "retro" they are still available, and work really well for creating fresh soda water (or other liquids) as needed.
The principle of carbonating water to make it fizzy is simple. You agitate cold water under pressure in a carbon dioxide (CO2) atmosphere. The water absorbs the carbon dioxide and then liberates it gradually as streams of bubbles when the pressure is released.
The original soda siphon made the miracle of sparkling water at home possible. You filled the unit with cold water, injected a controlled portion of carbon dioxide from a steel capsule and then shook the unit to diffuse the CO2 into the water.
You can buy the original vintage units on eBay, but I'd recommend against that as the condition of their specialist seals and the integrity of the carbonating bottle will be unknown.
Fortunately they do still sell new units and packs of the cartridges they use.
This unit is branded Maison & White and came from a UK eBay outlet of the same name.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113848313907
Note that the units are only intended for carbonating water. Other liquids may foam excessively, and some could even erode the aluminium bottle.
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Just remember to use the food-grade CO2 cartridges, the ones made for CO2-powered weaponry can contain a small amount of lubricant which wouldn't taste nice in fizzy trash wine... :P
That was interesting. I remember my grandparents having one of those in the late 1960s when we visited them and they would make fizzy drinks (not wine) for us kids. I thought the sparklets bulbs were neat. Also, in the late 1980s I frequented a pub that had pre-filled and pressurised glass soda-siphons. They rarely got used for drinks, mostly we used them to squirt at everyone in the bar on certain nights, including the bar staff who joined in as well. Those were fun days. Sadly that pub, like all the other good ones has closed.
A tip I read for carbonating wine in an old 1950s Sparkletts ad was flipping the bottle upside down when pressurizing. When you pressurize right-side up the CO2 is passing out the stem and through the wine, frothing it up like shown, but flipping it upside down lets you load the canister with CO2 without it bubbling through the wine, then gradually dissolve it.
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When I was a kid I remember there was a company in my country which sold carbonated water in siphons somewhat similar to this one, except they were single-use and not user-refillable. You would return empty siphons to back to the company and they would refill them.
So the concave shape in the bottle is called a punt. In wine bottles it makes the bottle easier to pour, but in this case it's a way to allow the bottle to handle the pressure and not fall over when you put it down. Anytime you're dealing with pressure vessels, the more spherical the better. Obviously a round bottom bottle won't stand up, so the punt turns part of the sphere inside out and follows the curvature of an ancient roman arch. 2000 years of engineering and materials science went into a device that makes fizz-water.
In junior high school, My class made little drag race cars out of wood. a hole was in the back to accept a CO2 cylinder. Two cars would be set up on a trigger mechanism that launched both at the same time. I took my time and carved mine with an aerodynamic body. sanded it all real smooth and painted it. I sanded the plastic wheels smooth of their sprue dimples and used a wee little bit of graphite in the axles. Another girl just rough-cut some flat-nosed, very narrow wedge. and slapped the wheels on. When it launched, hers fell over on its side and slid down the track (Track being two tight, 50 or 60 foot long cables that ran through two screw-eyes in the bottoms of the cars) And it STILL beat mine by 2 feet! I called shenanigans on the quality of the CO2 cylinders.
Liquid ability to dissolve gas in it increases as temperature drops, just opposite to solid dissolvability which increases as temperature rises. That is why cold wine will be better carbonized than warm one.
Excellent! Competent, knowlegable and fun. No silly intros telling youwhat is obvious, and NO DAFT MUSIC! Thanks Clive!!
We used to use the nitrous version of these for NOT making whipped cream at large underground parties with walls of bassbins and argon lasers.....
Funny, I just threw an orange coloured one out from my late dads house clearing - I saved the glass wire bound one.
Great. Always wondered how these worked. My dad had one years ago. I remember pinching one of the little co2 bottles & throwing on a bin bonfire in the bag garden. Nothing happened for ages, so walked off. Then as I walked away it exploded shattering windows & throwing red hot shards of bin. Just a normal day in my life.
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lol Clive I love your variety. You have the chops required for this job.
Back in the day, I had a bicycle pump that operated off these cartridges too. Great, light-weight pump for on the go. I later used the same pump to pump CO2 in to my growing plants to help them take the heat of the hydroponic system.
In Hungary we only drink wine with seltzer water and we call it "Fröccs". That was a tradition when you made seltzer water with a siphon. You needed one CO2 cartridge for a 1L siphon and two CO2 cartridge for a 2L one. As a kid I liked when my hand is frosted on the cartridge when I twisted the cartridge holder into the siphon's head.
I'm the same age as Clive and remember a teacher at primary school using one of those cylinders to propel a small rocket along a string between two buildings. They were certainly fun to play with.
Clive. I have to say your the only person who could make teardown of this device interesting! I know if I did it I would have a group of sleeping people! I know you had me start to finish.
Central Europe, 1980s: every home had one. There were a few variations of shapes and colours, we had a 2 liter one (needs 2 cylinders). Everybody knew how to use it. In some cases you had to be careful because the first squirt was so violent that it shoot the syrup out of the glass, children loved trying it first outside. Those were such times if somebody told us that in a few years we will buy water in a plastic bottle in the supermarket, we would not believe. We (as kids at least) did not even know that bottled sparkling water existed. This machine was the base of our drinks: soft drinks from home made fruit syrup for kids and sparkling wine (wine+sparkling water) for adults.