broken bottle capper - quick help please?

[wrangler]

hey all - so i have my hop harvest ale in the bottles ready to cap. i capped a dogfishhead champagne bottle fine, but now the capper is not closing properly on my 24 oz bottles. it's not squeezing the bottle cap tight nor putting the circle indentation on the caps. it's a 2-levered model. pretty cheap probably.

but anyway - if someone has any quick suggestions, my beer and i would really appreciate it.

i a couple 64oz swing tops that i'll use if i have to, but that would still not be enough room for the whole batch.

thanks for any assistance......

 

[wrangler]

the wide sub-rim on the champagne bottle appears to have pushed the compressing arms out of whack. arrrgghh.

 

[wrangler]

it's a brev italy. gotta be some way to reset the opening size??

 

[wrangler]

reposted from bottling column:

hey all - so i have my hop harvest ale in the bottles ready to cap. i capped a dogfishhead champagne bottle fine, but now the capper is not closing properly on my 24 oz bottles. it's not squeezing the bottle cap tight nor putting the circle indentation on the caps. it's a 2-levered model. pretty cheap probably.

but anyway - if someone has any quick suggestions, my beer and i would really appreciate it.

i a couple 64oz swing tops that i'll use if i have to, but that would still not be enough room for the whole batch.

thanks for any assistance......

the wide sub-rim on the champagne bottle appears to have pushed the compressing arms out of whack. arrrgghh.

it's a brev italy. gotta be some way to reset the opening size??

 

[phissionkorps]

Make sure the bell is screwed on as tightly as possible. If it is, then idk.

 

[wrangler]

will try, thanks.

sorry for all the posts above. stressin' a bit......

 

[IanFrank211]

you can put the rest of the beer back into another carboy, refit airlock, and go to the store tommorow to get another capper.

 

[wrangler]

i'm finding that an insane amount of pressue is doing the trick. kinda. still not right though.....