I have never used a bench bottle capper, antique or otherwise. But I found this thing in my garage and I remember my dad telling me that his grand dad used it to bottle his beer. Will this thing work on modern bottles and caps? Also, the piston range is only about 1 1/4 inches. Does that mean that all my bottles will need to be within 1 1/4 inches of each other? I know it's adjustable, but I don't want to be re-adjusting it for every bottle.