Thread: What Do You Recycle?

BobL

"...I got a bit peeved at having to replace the Sodastream cylinders so often so we invested in a 10L CO2 cylinder and a pressure hose adapter. This produces soda water @ 8c/L which means you pay off the cost of the big cylinder and pressure hose quite quickly....."

Much interested how you rigged the SodaStream to another CO2 cylinder. Had a look for CO2 cylinders on the net and most seem to quote the size in kg. the other thing of course is the adapter.

Much appreciated

Yvan

Soda stream adaptor https://www.google.com.au/search?cli...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I converted mine but it was a bit of a fiddle so be warned and it could depend on the model.

Beetroot tins! I love the stuff, so there are heaps.... bolts, project parts, keeping sandpaper rolls rolled, fluids, improvised hammers, cleaning brushes...

Also the plastic containers that Woolworths mayo comes in. The seals seem impervious to everything, so I use them for paint and shellac mixtures. Being clear makes them handy for seeing the colours.

On the use of "recycle".... A great deal of my work is turned into pure carbon in the backyard firepit

Originally Posted by yvan

Much interested how you rigged the SodaStream to another CO2 cylinder. Had a look for CO2 cylinders on the net and most seem to quote the size in kg. the other thing of course is the adapter.

I use the 6kg CO2 bottle and this 72 inch hose - I got both of mine from Brewmart.
The same hoses are a bit cheaper on ebay but more expensive than Brewmart once the cost of shipping is added.
A shorter hose is available for $20 less
The little gauge is useful to tell you roughly how much is left in the bottle.

In the two installs I've done the extent of fiddling depended on where the CO2 Bottle was located.
If you locate the CO2 bottle alongside the SS you need to cut a hole in the side of the SS device.
A better place for the bottle is under the SS like a kitchen cupboard so then you can come up through a hole in the bench and then underneath the SS, although that means permanently locating the SS in the same place.
My CO2 bottle is under the house and comes up through the floor and then through kitchen cupboard and bench top hence the need for the longer hose.

I also did a very easy install for my son - he has both the the bottle and SS inside a tall kitchen cupboard so no holes in his bench tops.

The main thing you need to be aware of is screwing the connectors down tight or you can lose the whole bottle of CO2 in short order.

Originally Posted by BobL

The main thing you need to be aware of is screwing the connectors down tight or you can lose the whole bottle of CO2 in short order.

I watched the aircon dude put my reverse cycle in. After he connected all the pipe he used a sprayer with soapy dish liquid. Any leaks would show as an inflating bubble.

Clever

Originally Posted by woodPixel

I watched the aircon dude put my reverse cycle in. After he connected all the pipe he used a sprayer with soapy dish liquid. Any leaks would show as an inflating bubble.

Clever

I do that to check for leaks on my reticulated compressed air ai system.

Originally Posted by doug3030

We just had to purchase a new clothes dryer. Apparently having to hold the door closed with packing tape isn't considered a longterm solution.

So now if I am lucky (haven't looked too closely yet) I might have a fire-barrel, electric motor, sheet metal and a power lead with a three-pin-plug.

Originally Posted by Kuffy

Round these parts, a piece of bungy cord is considered the long term solution. Going well for about 6 years now

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I must have missed Kuffy's reply til now.

The bungy-cord upgrade was put forward as a proposal at the design phase but failed to gain sufficient support to proceed to a feasibility study.

Today however I think the recycling gods were smiling upon me.

I am hanging my room air filter in the new shed and decided to re-purpose some angle iron from an old bed base to span the roof joists and hang the filter from. In the picture you can see that the holes were pre-drilled in just the right places. (if you allow for paralex error in the photo - trust me they actually line up. )

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An additional bonus is that the angle iron pieces were just the right length and do not need cutting. Winner!

Cheers

Doug

I have posted these previously but they go lost during the "Great WWF Picture Drought" a few years ago.

Not a single cent was paid for any timber in this photo.
All the blue dots indicate the wood came from a 30 year old red gum tree that was cut down in my back yard in about 1996,
I had the trunk slabbed and most of these are still under the house
The rest was blocked up into firewood and this is where most of the pieces for the tools came came from.
Of the remainder, they were either scabbed of the side of the road, donations, or from the tree loppers firewood pile.

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BTW , corks in the leather and cork mallet were recycled leather was a scrape left over from facing my WW bench vice jaws.
Some blades are old files.

Here is another from 2008 - as far as the WWW projects go (apart from the guitar) again no cents were outlaid for any timber
By then I was milling timber in cahoots with a tree lopper which where some of the wood came from
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Even much of the Metal used is recycled or purchased as scrap.
For example the draw knife is an old tempered file welded to pieces of scrap mild steel.
The steel in the lathe tool rests were all scrap.

Awesome Bob

Thanks for sharing Bob! So many of those I'd never seen before, especially love the shoulder plane and guitar! Never realised you'd made so many tools.

Originally Posted by bueller

Thanks for sharing Bob! So many of those I'd never seen before, especially love the shoulder plane and guitar! Never realised you'd made so many tools.

Yeah sadly they don't get used much.

I was filling in a few moments and chanced upon this old thread of mine while searching for something completely different.

I thought I would post some rubber (The Americans amongst us can relax as it is not that) I rescued the other day. It is the conveyor from our coal feeders to the grinding mills at my workplace. I have recently put in a garden pond and I managed to puncture the liner despite being extremely careful. I have a new stronger liner that has been placed over the top but for extra security I wanted some protection for under the water plant pots. I have just realised they are recycled 15L ad 20L plastic containers cut to suit. The rubber will be placed beneath the pots.

The second reason for posting is to show a pic of the ute to NCArcher when it is not overladen!

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Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

The second reason for posting is to show a pic of the ute to NCArcher when it is not overladen!

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Regards
Paul

Paul, It looks like a work ute and now you’re telling us it’s actually a “show pony” !