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I just bought a capper press online (ebay)
but think that the head might be missing a rubber part.
Can anyone tell me if there should be a rubber
part in the housing where the crown seal goes. Ie. the contact spot.
On this one there is a metal housing (like the hand capper)
with a central 12 mm diameter metal bar sticking down inside.
Is this as clear as mud?
If anyone could shed some light on its design?
I'll head into the HB shop on the weekend to look again at a new one..
Model is an 'eco matic'
Much appriciated guys......

Silk,

My bench capper and hammer capper both have a rubber washer inside the bell, but my two handed capper does not. So two out of three says should have a rubber washer inside the bell.

Cheers,
Greg

Thanks Greg,
I'll have to try and find one now. Any ideas on where to get the rubber???

Silk, I do not know the Eco Matic, but my Super Automatic has no washer inside the bell.
Stick a cap inside it- is that 12mm metal piece a magnet? The SA has one, makes it easier to cap on your own.

Silk,

my bench capper has no rubber washer eithr!

I would have thought only the hammer type hand capper hab a washer to help absorb force of hammer etc! You don't get this force/impact with lever capper.

Try a few test bottles and see what happens.

Grab

grabman wrote: Try a few test bottles and see what happens.

Grab

Yeh thats the go. I'll put a few through on the weekend.
Thanks for the feedback.
Silk

What's the brand of your capper?

Jay.

sorry should have read the post better "Eco Matic"

for what it's worth, my bench capper doesn't have any rubber bits.

Cheers,
jay.

Thanks all for the assurances. I gave the eco-Matic a good testing on the weekend and it works a treat.
FYI
Just a small question on technique.
It has a magnet in the bell. Is it better to place the crown seal into the bell first then lower to the bottle or place the cap onto the bottle first?

Place it in the bell, on the magnet and lower it onto the bottle. Once it's on the magnet you can slide the whole assembly down a notch or two for a guaranteed seal, even on twist tops.

Whatever you do, don't try and stick the bottle on the magnet and lower it onto the cap.

undercover1 wrote:Place it in the bell, on the magnet and lower it onto the bottle. Once it's on the magnet you can slide the whole assembly down a notch or two for a guaranteed seal, even on twist tops.

Thanks for the tip...

undercover1 wrote: Whatever you do, don't try and stick the bottle on the magnet and lower it onto the cap.

Lucky you told me undies I almost tried to hammer the bottle onto the bell using a brick nailed to a 4X2

Does that work Silk?

May have to give it a go

Dogger

Sometimes I've found when things get a bit sticky (with spillages due to confusion over drinking the beer and bottling the beer) I like to make sure of the seal.
This method makes dam sure those suckers stay put.
If I smash a few bottles I just use the modified vaccuum cleaner the 'supersuckorator'
to filter the glass out and re-bottle the beer for the in-laws.
I like to use the old truism "if it gets stuck -force it, if it breaks -it needed fixing anyway"
Try it - you'll like it.

silkworm wrote:Thanks all for the assurances.

Couldnt agree less. Totally off the chart. You can PM if you want, I will try to explain better...

moon7442 wrote:

silkworm wrote:Thanks all for the assurances.

Couldnt agree less. Totally off the chart. You can PM if you want, I will try to explain better...

who's this dickhead ?

Yardy, those links look familiar, I reckon I spotted them on another site totally removed from home brewing, the moderator removed them soon after they arrived, I could be wrong........ but that's not like me

What the????
Who's the moonie? I just didn't get that comment.

Couldnt agree less. Totally off the chart. You can PM if you want, I will try to explain better...

Yes please explain.

Thanks to Yardy for repairing my sanity.....

I would delete the moonie guy and his posts. He is just trying to get his pagerank on search engines up by posting crap in a whole bunch of forums with a signature that links back to his sites (i.e. in his signature 'poker game nfl gambling')

Edit: this link will show which posts to delete
http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/se ... r=moon7442

He's gonsky! Username banned. Domain banned. Signature deleted. Mates deleted. See ya later!

Oliver