woozy
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So a friends brothers nano-brewery had to shut down due to Covid. (boo). and the friends asked if I wanted a bottle corker and 750 ml beer bottles. I never turn down free things so I said yes. So I tested corking an empty bottle. And i noticed a tear in the cork where the cork protruded over the lip of the bottle (as this is a beer bottle we don't flush the cork to the lip; we end up with a mushrrom shaped cork like a champagne cork).
I tested to again and noticed that when the corker squeezed and pushed the cork it didn't push it entirely through the slot-thing-a-majigger so the bottle and 2/3 of the cork was below the narrow metal passage of the corker and one third of the cork (now expanded) was above it so it was like a wasp caught in a metal girdle. To get the bottle through the girdle I yank it down through the girdle and .... that results in a tear in the cork.
So I figure I should pull the bottle through well the cork is being squeezed. But now the corking lever rather cleverly engages in a bottle locking mechanism.
So I figure: Squeeze and cork, pull the lever up, and let the cork expand, now instead of the pulling the bottle through I lower the bottle stand without lowering the bottle so the bottle is hang by its neck which is in the chokehold of the girdle passage. Then with the bottle stand forced down with one hand, I pull the cork level down with the other hand a second time squeezing the top third of the cork a second time and while the cork is squeeze, I pull the bottle through the girdle. As the top third of the cork is squeezed it slides out with no tear.
Ta-da.
Ta-da?
Okay, but how am I supposed to *really* do it?
I tested to again and noticed that when the corker squeezed and pushed the cork it didn't push it entirely through the slot-thing-a-majigger so the bottle and 2/3 of the cork was below the narrow metal passage of the corker and one third of the cork (now expanded) was above it so it was like a wasp caught in a metal girdle. To get the bottle through the girdle I yank it down through the girdle and .... that results in a tear in the cork.
So I figure I should pull the bottle through well the cork is being squeezed. But now the corking lever rather cleverly engages in a bottle locking mechanism.
So I figure: Squeeze and cork, pull the lever up, and let the cork expand, now instead of the pulling the bottle through I lower the bottle stand without lowering the bottle so the bottle is hang by its neck which is in the chokehold of the girdle passage. Then with the bottle stand forced down with one hand, I pull the cork level down with the other hand a second time squeezing the top third of the cork a second time and while the cork is squeeze, I pull the bottle through the girdle. As the top third of the cork is squeezed it slides out with no tear.
Ta-da.
Ta-da?
Okay, but how am I supposed to *really* do it?