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DIY Yeast method materials...
You could get a DIY system to explode if you used a needle value to slow the
release of the CO2 production thereby developing a back pressure. I am betting most cases are due to lack of a one way valve in the CO2 system. "Alan Silver" wrote in message ... In article , Jason writes Yes but I am looking for a blow valve as a precaution against the possibility of the airstone getting clogged and causing my 2 liter bottle to explode If you are using a standard plastic soda/lemonade bottle, then I wouldn't worry. They are designed to a) withstand far greater pressures than your DIY CO2 set up can produce and b) allow excess gas to seep through, preventing explosions. Think about it, the gas produce by even mildly shaking a new lemonade bottle is way more than any DIY CO2 set up can manage. (I have seen pictures and read postings on this happening.) Have you actually seen any confirmed reports of this happening ? In all my years of using these newsgroups (about six or seven I think), I don't remember ever seeing an actual confirmed report of explosion. I've seen a few scare stories, plenty of hypothesis and so on, but no confirmed reports. And if they were any, it would almost certainly be due to a poor set up. As mentioned above, a plastic bottle shouldn't gve any cause for worry. Finally, my DIY CO2 set up has a plastic bung in the bottle. This can be removed fairly easily (which is how I renew the mixture). If the pressure were to build up in there, the bung would pop out long before we got anywhere near an explosion. Again, a small amount of common sense removes all fears from the scaremongers. HTH -- Alan Silver Please remove the "furryferret" if replying by e-mail |
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