worlddivides
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As some of you might have noticed from my previous threads, before starting to do kegging, I was paranoid in particular about the safety of CO2 tanks. Although I've come to be a lot more "reasonable" and realistic about it, I am still quite paranoid. I've been keeping both my keg and CO2 in the fridge, but in order to cold crash, I need to remove the CO2 tank from the fridge (I mean, fermenters are pretty big, so that's no surprise).
I know CO2 tanks are built to withstand crazy amounts of pressure and all that jazz, but even though it's September 20th, it's 97F (36C) here in Tokyo, and in Japan people don't keep the AC on all the time for all rooms. So I'm kind of worried about the sudden change from the 39F (4C) in my fridge to the 86-90F (30C to 32C) in my living room. I know they're supposed to be safe under 125F (51C), but no matter how much I searched on Google or Homebrewtalk, I couldn't find anything talking about the effect of a sudden and quick increase in temperature on a CO2 tank. That might be a sign that it's so safe that no one has ever bothered to even ask about it, or maybe it's just a difficult subject to search for.
I imagine there's no problem, but it is on my mind, so I wanted to ask. Especially since I'm going to need to remove my CO2 tank from the fridge every single time I need to cold crash a fermenter.
I know CO2 tanks are built to withstand crazy amounts of pressure and all that jazz, but even though it's September 20th, it's 97F (36C) here in Tokyo, and in Japan people don't keep the AC on all the time for all rooms. So I'm kind of worried about the sudden change from the 39F (4C) in my fridge to the 86-90F (30C to 32C) in my living room. I know they're supposed to be safe under 125F (51C), but no matter how much I searched on Google or Homebrewtalk, I couldn't find anything talking about the effect of a sudden and quick increase in temperature on a CO2 tank. That might be a sign that it's so safe that no one has ever bothered to even ask about it, or maybe it's just a difficult subject to search for.
I imagine there's no problem, but it is on my mind, so I wanted to ask. Especially since I'm going to need to remove my CO2 tank from the fridge every single time I need to cold crash a fermenter.