I posted the CHI Company a couple months ago after talking with one of the CHI owners and ordering another 4 pack of corny's. I was told they purchased every last piece of equipment that Pepsi owned. This being all the corny's, some corny's will trickle in over time and may just dry up. I would not want to be on that waiting list.
They purchased the complete pepi assembly line that includes the equipment for cleaning and refilling corny's. CHI purchased all of pepsi corny's, lock stock and barrel. The above quote of numbers shipped out of the country was from one of the CHI company owners from a 5-6 week ago conversation. I got scared then ordered another 4 pack at $92 plus they added a free O ring kit this time.
Turkey and Oz combined ordered 3,000 corny's. China and other Asian countries are glad to have these corny's for other uses as food and drink containers not the stainless for scrap. More stainless scrap weight comes from half kegs that are shipped to China in high volumes. With CHI's email I received yesterday telling me about their short 4 day sale plus they had just under 2,000 corny's left I bet many other homebrewers besides LHBS would stock also stock up on this short sale price and order large numbers of them. A win win for the LHBS as when they are gone like CHI being empty LHBS corny prices could go way up, business greed and you need them and pay the asking price. I can see this happen rather soon call it supply and demand.
When these are gone CHI will have no more unless a couple trickle in, i'm not wanting to be on a waiting list not alone any higher prices than the $76 now offered. The left overs could be dented and beat up left over cornys.
Shipping was $13 each for two 4 packs then $21 last month for 5 as one was a replacement for a damaged corny. I didn't ask the UPS ground shipping cost today for the 4 pack I ordered. Can't be too much as it's only 115 miles away with UPS ground shipping.
Someone last month got enough people together to cover the cost and shipping then ordered a pallet of 27 corny's and had them picked up at the commercial business as they will only deliver to acommercial. I believe it came to around $17-$19 each this was from a back east corny supplier shipping to Calif is out of the question. I was lucky as CHI is close to me.
Every corny I have holds pressure and have been cleaned inside without big dents or loose rubber bottoms or tops. This puts me up to 16 corny's with one shorter pin lock Coke corny (ANY TRADE FOR A PINLOCK COKE CORNY PLUS A COUPLE BUCKS FOR A PEPSI BALL LOCK THE TRADE?). I picked up one pepsi corny with the top cut off just before it reduces in diameter. It has a 1/4" rod as a handle riveted near the top. A future inner cooler with coils inside with 58*F well water flowing into it? I'm thinking coil tight against the inside of this corny with 1/4" spacing with 1/2" soft copper tubing with a smaller coil of 5" diameter also 1/4" spaced inside the topless corny connected to the 1/2' X 50' chiller in the boil pot with the March pump for circulating and a circulating mixer motor mounted on the boil kettle for faster cooling.
The cut corny can hold 63' of 1/2" copper coil tubing fit tightly, soft soldered to the corny walls every 8-10" with 1/4" spacing between coils plus 1/2" copper supports for the 5" inner diameter coil with 1/4" between coils supporteed off the larger coils. This corny cooler with 58*F well water flowing up to 6 gallons a minute. I believe can drop 16 1/2-17 gallons of net cooled boil before heading to the fermenter rather quickly. Bottom line I want a full 10 and 15 gallon corny's not 14 1/4 gallons or less after the frementer.
Nuff ramblings, your on your own explaining the corny delivery to the wife.