What to do with used C02s?

[dante_mags]

I use the used CO2 cartridges as targets, to shoot at 25 & 50 yards with my .22lr rifles and pistols. Once they have holes in them, into the garbage it goes.

Try using full ones, it's awesome.

 

[iamrone]

Local Metal Scrap guy is happy to take them. Waterloo Region was accepting them in their recycling bins when I lived there as well.

As usual... your mileage may vary.

Spud gun sounds like way more fun than recycling

 

[Mark-II]

um mini black powder pipe bomb ?'s

Maaaan....did you also make your own Slow Match / Fuse out of cotton string and saltpetre from the drug store because you had no cannon fuse?

...I kinda believe in guardian angels

 

[fat tony]

I just cut an empty one open (Crosman). After deburring the cut off end & sanding the inside a bit, I measured an inside diameter of 0.662".

The theoretical bore size of a 16 gauge shotgun is 0.663".

The Lee Key Drive 12 gauge slug has an outside diameter of 0.681" as per this website address:

http://leeprecision.com/1-oz-slug-mold.html

Lee 1oz Slug Mold features the exclusive drive key which positively rotates the slug in rifled shotgun barrels. Includes sprue plate, handles and instruction with suggested loads.

1 OZ diameter = .681 inches length= .640inches

Other uses:

when you cut off the open end of an empty C02 canister, you get a nice deep drawing steel 'test tube'. You could possibly use it as a small crucible for melting small loads of zinc, lead, aluminium, & maybe copper(?).

It could also make a nice thimble for those of us with man hands.

 

[PPCLIGullyPlatoon]

I dunno, try at your own risk, BUT, we used to cut regular match heads off and stuff them down the throat --- a sprinkler served as a fuse. Best M80 you can get this side of the border.

 

[fat tony]

[/off the rails] sprinkler as fuse lol

 

[Mr.S]

[/off the rails] sprinkler as fuse lol

I'm pretty sure he meant sparkler

 

[CenturionX]

"Lemme tell ya something else real fun we did when we was kids..."

Ooops!

 

[B]

Try using full ones, it's awesome.

I've shot full ones a few times and found it to be pretty underwhelming. It's hard to tell the difference between full and empty IMO.

 

[zuke]

Empty with tannerite?

 

[gwilder]

Turn 'em upsidedown and tap the small end into a fender washer. Then shoot 'em!

 

[williss]

Cut the very end off, fill with match heads. Ignite and run! A mini rocket that flies in a not-so-straight line and sometimes into house windows, which will break.

but put them in a Metal pipe mounted at an angle in a wooden base, and they at least start off flying straight.

been using them for file handles for years.

 

[theviking]

send them to Ontario premier whynne ,going to be taxing us here for co2 so the liberals should be willing to dispose of them properly.

 

[viking555]

I hit them with a hammer to flatten them, drop them in a 5 gallon bucket and sell them as scrap when the bucket is 3/4 full. Takes me 2 or 3 years but 30 bucks is 30 bucks.