can you recycle mini CO2 canisters?

[daveO]

As per the thread title really. I just brought home about 10 mini canisters that someone had dumped in the stream where I walk the dog. They look like air rifle or soft air types but I've never used them so could be something else. I know they're steel because my magnet on a stick picked them out of the water. They seem to be empty but the valves are rusty so I dont know if I can test them. What do people do with dead ones? (Dont say chuck them in a stream )

 

[hiho]

I just chuck mine in a...... recycling bin

 

[Stew]

I'm interested to see if there is anything positive that can be done with them. Once had over a hundred dropped in a work car park - they're used for substance abuse (nitrous oxide)

 

[daveO]

I'm interested to see if there is anything positive that can be done with them. Once had over a hundred dropped in a work car park - they're used for substance abuse (nitrous oxide)

The only suggestion I found on google was to fill them with lead to make fishing weights.

 

[oldtimer]

I used to use them as catapult ammunition.

 

[zornt]

you could make wind chimes of them. just drill a hole in the bottom and thread fishing line through. take s can lid punch holes around the rim and tie rhe lines off to it.

 

[Janne]

Or just put them in the ‘metals’ container at your local friendly recycling station..

 

[daveO]

I probably will. I've just changed the brakes on the car so I've got to take the old bits to the tip anyway.

 

[Janne]

Had they been of a nicer material, we could find lots of use for them. Nice, organic form.
But ......

 

[gonzo_the_great]

The CO2 ones, used for low power airguns, don't have a valve. They have a soft, pressed in, cap, which is pierced as you screw them into the gun. So they are not going to be recycleable by refilling.
But I'd love to find another uise for them, as we get a bin full at our local range.

(If you can think of anything to use spent 22rf brass for, other than weighing it in for scrap....)

 

[Bishop]

Scuba tanks for Action Man

If you can think of anything to use spent 22rf brass for, other than weighing it in for scrap....

knife scale pins or lanyard ferrules could be possible

 

[crosslandkelly]

 

[Janne]

Many .22 cartridges are made from brass plated steel. These days even the low cost 9mm and .38 Spec are made like this.

Our range is full of rusting empties.

No European or N. American manufacturers though. China, Brazil, Russia.

Check first.

 

[snappingturtle]

Heavy duty cigar container?

 

[Janne]

Or maybe a Medical Purpose spliff, when the arthritic pain hits you?

 

[g4ghb]

What is the OD of the canisters? In my minds eye it is about 15mm.... if so I would think you could cut the end off and use a end cap from 15mm plumbing pipe. If it would fit a quick trip to your local plumbers merchants would be on the cards

 

[snappingturtle]

Or maybe a Medical Purpose spliff, when the arthritic pain hits you?

why wait for pain?

 

[Nice65]

why wait for pain?

Gone to Pot was a good watch over the last week, I hope you saw it.

 

[Samon]

I've made a few little containers from old co2 capsules. Saw the thing top off and whittle son wooden corks for them. I filled mine with matches, cotton etc, some with pellets for airguns and although my thread on it was yeeeeears ago people suggested salt n pepper for camping.

However.. they may look like co2 capsules but could be the smaller ones used for laughing gas/creamer gas that kids honk to get high lol. I was magnet fishing last week and pulled a hat full in one giant magnetised bunch and at first thought they were co2 but after a close looked realised they were not.. some junkie punk must have disposed of them in their box in the river. The box rotted and they stayed together enough for my magnet to collect so many at once.


Our colonial cousins make mini pipe bombs with them and other stupid stuff, but anything small you need on you but want to contain will be good to shove inside. Especially cool if you were to solder multiple together and have a pan pipe looking seasoning case.

 

[snappingturtle]

Gone to Pot was a good watch over the last week, I hope you saw it.

No, work time for me Nice, has it been on before? kind of rings a bell...