Description
This floor corker is much easier to use, it provides a better seal and corking experience than hand corkers which are can be difficult and hateful. Just about everyone who sticks with the hobby comes back and buys the floor corker after bottling their first few batches with the hand corker.
- The best floor corker available in this price range. Getting the more expensive green one won’t buy you much
- The corking depth can be adjusted by moving the nut up or down on the plunger pin
- Will fit any standard size wine, champagne, or Belgian beer bottles, 375ml 750ml and 1.5 ltrs
- Brass iris jaws, Rolled steel construction, long handle for better leverage
- Works on all straight corks up to #9. Does Champagne or Belgian corks. (May have to pull down on bottle to release)
CAUTION: The handle is spring loaded and can fly up with some force. Keep your face out of range. Store it with the handle in the upright position (spring is relaxed) and carry with one hand on the handle.
NOTE: There is no padding on the feet. If you want to use it on a nice counter or floor, put it on a sheet of cardboard so that you do not mar the finish of your table/floor.
ASSEMBLY: Four wing nuts for the base and handle.
INSTRUCTIONS: Begin with the handle up. Place your bottle on the platform and push it down so that you can slip the bottle mouth under the jaws. Drop a cork in the jaws opening and pull down the handle with one steady motion. If after insertion the cork sits up too high or to far down in the bottle, adjust the round nut on the plunger. You may have a redo if it not far enough in. If your bottles are too short to be clamped, place a board under them and exercise caution. If the depth adjustment nut comes out of adjustment over a long bottling run, put a small amount of pipe tape on it to prevent vibration from turning it.
CHAMPAGNE: To do those Champagne and Belgians correctly and get the mushroom appearance right this corker has a immovable oversize iris aperture at the bottom of the movable jaws. The idea is the cork is only pushed in 3/4 way leaving the top of the cork swollen. The fixed iris opening at bottom of the corking channel must be large enough to pull the still swollen part of the cork through once it is only 3/4 inserted into the bottle. It will do champagne corks in European bottles and Belgian beer corks in European and American bottles. This corker has an optional attachment for double duty, crimping on crown caps
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