How co2 cartridges are made

Absolutely fascinating. For someone with no mechanical engineering background (me), this was a great post!

This is how many things are made.

I am also educated as a cut & die toolmaker

Also worked a few years with electro plating ( zinc and chrome ) which these little suckers also get treated to.

Very cool! Thanks for posting! It's always amazing to see how much work goes into something like this. I was really surprised to see that the information was silk-screened rather than jet-printed on the cartridge. My guess is that it's because the tooling was developed before inkjet technology was up to the task.

GsT

Thanks! That was really awesome. Now that I see what is involved I’ll stop whining about the price.

Thanks for posting, I am a retired toolmaker, very familiar with the tooling shown, but your video makes it much easier to explain and show others what all goes into simple things we take for granted every day. It is a shame we throw them away after use !!!

Don’t throw them all away. They make great steel targets. You can hang them or stand them stem down on a magnet and knock them over. I use my HW30 with open sights and they are quite the challenge at 15 yards and beyond.

Kenny

You know Coke bottles used to have a nickel return... when America was Great!

I repurposed one once... worked out pretty good.