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Default At what PSI does a plastic soda bottle explode? (home CO2 carbonation)

On Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 3:34:49 PM UTC-5, Elmo wrote:
Anyone know at what PSI a typical plastic soda bottle explodes?

I've built a home carbonation system. The gauges say I've put in 150PSI of
C02 into the Trader Joe's (admittedly thick) carbonated water bottles.

Nothing happened (with respect to explosions).

Yet, as I dig on the web, I find that plastic soda bottles are supposed to
explode at 120 to 150psi.
http://community.nbtsc.org/wiki/HomeMadeSoda

Obviously I need more data.

Do you have data points showing when soda bottles explode?

PS: If there's a soda or carbon dioxide related newsgroup for home
carbonation, please let me know.


Be careful you know they don't check them all, only a significantly large statistically relevant sample. A bad batch of plastic and not all the defectives may be removed be fore shipping.