PSI of bottles?

[Neptune]

For an APH. Does anyone know how much a soda bottle is rated to? I'd assume any carbonated beverage container has to be rated to some extent.

[TheSoaker]

Soda bottles explode at around 90 PSI according to the myth busters but if you keep it between 60 and 70 PSI you should be safe. Also on YouTube there's a couple of vids using soda bottles as AP Pcs so go ahead.

[GJIV]

I have playd around with these and they are great.

From experiences I know these bottles can hold over 15 bar /(tested with 17 bar), important here is that there is something sparkling inside it(a water bottle with normal water inside will not handle this pressure, may 7-9 bars if ever)

best thing is to test one bottle brand( water sparkling for instance) so you can be sure how much pressure it can hold

CoCa Cola bottles do handle 12 bars without problems, may more but do not take for guarantee

Always there for questions

[atvan]

Some on here are strongly against soda bottles (I believe SSC Ben is) and make valid points. They are not always reliable and can create dangerous shrapnel if they fail. You should take some sort of precaution to keep them from failing.

It is generally considered true that name brand soda bottles will be more durable than off brand bottles.

[Drenchenator]

I'm against people using soda bottles as pressure chambers. They make decent reservoirs if you're on a budget, but as chambers they are too thin.

You may test out a bottle in ideal conditions (no additional stress) and get 100 to 200 psi, but in battle there would be additional stress. For example, standard wear and tear may make it burst because of how thin and flexible the bottle is. In a battle, you have to move around quickly and may have to slam your gun around a bit. Do you really trust a thin soda bottle at 60 psi?

What if you drop the gun accidentally? Let's try out a simple thought experiment. If you have 1 L of water in the chamber, and all that weight falls onto a square centimeter of area, you get about 14 psi of additional pressure on that spot. If the chamber lands on a weak spot, that could be enough extra pressure to cause the chamber to rupture. That's why I would not use soda bottles as chambers: the safety factor is really quite small.

Edit: I fixed a typo.

[soakinader]

If I ever use a pop bottle for a PC, I plan to wrap it in clear tape so that if it does decide to fail it won't be so much "catastrophic explosion of plastic shrapnel" as "leaking all over me suddenly".