CO2 Gross Weight

[AnthonyB]

And Jactone sell them after getting them in unlabelled & screen printing their label on to match the rest of their range.

Originally the Soda Club range were to be available with a fixed as well as swivel horn, but this appears to have been dropped due to lack of demand - the fire rating tests (which I have on CD as a video) used both variants. I would have preferred the small fixed horn in the 1kg to go along with it's compact size.

They are 15 years too late for me - lightweight compact low cost 1kg CO2 would have been ideal for the Halon Phase out of the 90's for the non vehicle uses, but I don't see as much use for them now.

[Davo]

AnthonyB

We are scrapping 10 year old Chubb 2kgs because it is cheaper for us to buy new.
What I would like to know please is is the quality as good and also hopefully our old ones will be recycled

davo

[AnthonyB]

If your new extinguishers are kitemarked they should be OK. The Soda Club stuff looks OK, I got some samples off them and they seem to be OK - they appear to have been involved with CO2 cylinders for years (albeit mainly for Sodastream machines).

It is still cheaper to refurb than buy new - both PJ Fire & Saffire have a fair margin between their refurbs & their new kitemarked equipment.

It seems however that some suppliers prefer to avoid hassle and just weigh in CO2's requiring overhaul and supply new - which isn't very environmentally friendly. Some also do this because they make a bigger margin.

I would assume you are using Chubb via the OGC agreement which explains why new is cheaper. Are going to charge you the environmnetal disposal charge for your old CO2's because if they are aluminium body with parallel threads (i.e. under 20 years old) there are ways of getting them recycled without you having to pay out.