fliptop metal brackets

[W0nderW0man]

I've got a whole set of normal bottles laying around and a whole set of swing tops. Has anyone actually used these metal brackets to turn normal bottles into swing top? Do they work alright? I will probably use them for stout so shouldn't be too carbonated but how strong are they?

it would be cheaper than buying a capper and caps since I've got the swing tops going spare.

 

[nbpicklesno2]

I've never seen those before and theoretically, it looks like a brilliant idea, depending on price.

I'd like someone else to review them before purchase though.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I think they have been discussed here before, i will have a look round.

 

[brumbrew]

I so much prefer swing tops to caps. This is relevant to my interests lol.

What's the link? Any YouTube reviews?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

You can get them here - http://www.brewsmarter.co.uk/metal-...-convert-any-bottle-to-a-swing-top-1832-p.asp


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[Tony1951]

I love my swing tops. I bought them from The Range about six months ago when they had loads of them and were selling them at £9.99 for twelve. So easy to shut them up when bottling. Bloody brilliant I think. I have about 120 of them.

 

[Notlaw]

That little invention has blown my mind.!

If someone has any positive feedback, I'd love to hear it. If so, I'll have some of them for definite.

 

[brumbrew]

I love my swing tops. I bought them from The Range about six months ago when they had loads of them and were selling them at £9.99 for twelve. So easy to shut them up when bottling. Bloody brilliant I think. I have about 120 of them.

And I thought I was doing good with about 60 if them ;-)

 

[Tony1951]

You can get them here - https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...UYFDQf6mf17nSWZvw&sig2=4rPE4udIzOc9erbPjSzh4A

And you can get the swing tops on Ebay


http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_o...caps.TRS0&_nkw=swing+top+bottle+caps&_sacat=0

 

[Tony1951]

And I thought I was doing good with about 60 if them ;-)

They were such a bargain I thought so I bought up all their stock. :) Other people were rightly pointing out that you can get bottles fro free at the bottle bank or at the local hostelry, but I thought these were worth it. At the time, the same bottles were all over ebay for twice as much and I think people were buying them at The Range and putting them up for auction. They were new and in the same boxes. If there is brass to be made, there will be a queue of people lining up to make it.

 

[mike-os]

That comes at about £1.70 @ bottle.... which is about 75 crown caps....or enough for 2 23l brews


looks expensive to me

 

[Chippy_Tea]

That little invention has blown my mind.!

If someone has any positive feedback, I'd love to hear it. If so, I'll have some of them for definite.

At that price why not be the forum guinea pig.

 

[Notlaw]

At that price why not be the forum guinea pig.

Fair enough, i'll order a pack and see how they fair.

 

[W0nderW0man]

homebrewcompany sells these metal things for 1.66 euros for ten. I might just have to risk it unless someone has used them before?

 

[Notlaw]

I'm not impressed with these things at all. Sanitisation is going to be a problem without changing them (in which case you may as well just invest in proper swing-top bottles... currently on offer @ The Range, 12 for a tenner) and they just don't seem to be as secure a seal as a proper swing-top bottle or even a crown cap put on with my crappy hammer-on capper.

Chucked them in the toolbox... might use them again if I'm desperate.

 

[Tony1951]

I'm not impressed with these things at all. Sanitisation is going to be a problem without changing them (in which case you may as well just invest in proper swing-top bottles... currently on offer @ The Range, 12 for a tenner) and they just don't seem to be as secure a seal as a proper swing-top bottle or even a crown cap put on with my crappy hammer-on capper.

Chucked them in the toolbox... might use them again if I'm desperate.

I've got one of those hammer on cappers from my earlier brewing life thirty some years ago. I wince every time I use it expecting the bottle to smash before I get that change of note when the cap is really on tight. Love my flip tops I do. I've got about 9 dozen of them.

 

[Dutto]

Le Clerc in France 50 nylon flip-tops with seals and metal strips = €11.50.

650 ml flip-top bottles full of Fischer beer €1.47 each.

"Rip-off Britain!" anyone? :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

 

[ManseMasher]

Can't read that name without thinking of 'Allo 'Allo - 'It is I, Le Clerc'.....

 

[Dutto]

Can't read that name without thinking of 'Allo 'Allo - 'It is I, Le Clerc'.....

... and every time I open my mouth to speak to French friends I think of that damned Gendarme and wonder what exactly they are hearing versus what I am saying ...

... so I am gong to feel up a gloss of hombre to cher me oop! :whistle:

 

[mike-os]

O kay dookie:whistle: