big mistake

[seannicholson2]

i just bottled my second brew using a coopers fermenter, when i put the lid on i rimmed the seal with olive oil. And today going to clean the fermenter after just bottling i cant get the bloddy thing off. I had 2 other people try and get it off but i cant get it off, I tried getting a piece of wood and hammer to tap it off on one of the plastic ridges but it just snapped off.
Any other ideas?

cheers sean

[bensfarm]

perhaps try puting some detergent in through the tap whole and up ending it.soap is pretty slipery

[KEG]

hot, not boiling water, over the outside edges of the lid. it'll expand a little, and loosen.

[Chris]

I'd go hot water too. The soap/detergent option leads to too many other problems.