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When I bottled some kit wine this week, I used some plastic stoppers that I have had for ages. I had trouble getting them in, so hit them a few times each with a hammer. That did the trick nicely. )t'

It took me almost 40 mins and a grazed knuckle to get one open today! }hairout{

If the next one is as tricky, I shall give up and have a G&t instead. :b(
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Helen, ask Ock if you can borrow his sliding hammer it will get them out easy peasy. )t'
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Oh dear Helen what are you like, maybe warming the stopper under some hot water :?
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Sorry............had to {rofwl} {rofwl} at that.
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Gwenoakes wrote:Sorry............had to {rofwl} {rofwl} at that.

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What is even worse is that I have 18 bottles...... {rofwl}
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Helen, Do you have a cork screw with a lever at each side? Apparently they are easier to use for people with slightly less strong hands.
Or even for those who have hammered corks into bottles.
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Tried that but

a) I couldn't pierce the plastic.
b) the stopper goes over the glass top of the bottle so the wingy opener can't lever on anything except the cork itself, which is no good!

Having grazed myself trying to lever with a knife and then a tablespoon handle, I got it about one fifth of an inch up, but completely stuck. So I went and got my radiator plier things and did it with that eventually.
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Smash the neck off woman }hairout{ )grin2(
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Well Steve, that would be problematic in so many ways - wine everywhere, glass everywhere (including in the wine), plus I want to keep the bottles to use again.

I did think about drilling a hole in the cork and shoving a straw in, but they wouldn't be long enough.
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Helen
If your having that much trouble, assuming the wine has ceased fermenting:-
1pt plastic milk bottles with the screw tops.
Just a idea

use empty gin bottles {rofwl}


Or if your a real woman:-
As Steve suggests )run(
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I only use bottles with corks - corks don't fit the screw top wine bottles. }hairout{

Do you think screw top bottles would be ok to reuse? Perhaps I ought to ask the wine shop.
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The bottle may not be re- useable but you get to the wine - in an emergency - you understand..........
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Do you think screw top bottles would be ok to reuse?

Providing you sterilize them, I don't see why not :-D
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Grolsch bottles.
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