Surrendered to a Bench Capper

[MyQul]

My bench capper arrived earlier this week. Looks well made and sturdy.It'll be getting its maiden voyage on 60x330ml bottles this evening

 

[chub1]

Only just picked up on this thread.
I have a Youngs capper and have started to have problems with it after less than a year
Am having to work around the caps to get them to sit down properly and tight as it seems to have started bedding down only one side of the caps at a time:-(

 

[MyQul]

Only just picked up on this thread.
I have a Youngs capper and have started to have problems with it after less than a year
Am having to work around the caps to get them to sit down properly and tight:-(

Thats exactly the problem I was having. You dont need to spend 30 odd quid on a bench capper. One of these steel cappers for £15 (only a fiver more than the crappy wilko/youngs ones) will do the job nicely I think. As well as last a long time

http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/acatalog/Steel_Beer_Crown_Capper.html#.Vw_fnfpuUQk

 

[IainM]

My hand capper has been fine, even for the Wychwood bottles, but you've all made me paranoid! I can just imagine it breaking with 20 litres of primed beer sitting in uncapped bottles. I just bought a backup capper in the Tesco sale to curb my gloomy premonitions.

 

[Birkin]

They're just cheap, plastic and flexible. They work well with bottles that have a good square neck to grab, but not so well on others.

I wholeheartedly recommend that any honebrewer avoids them like the plague.

If you shop around bench cappers can be found for £23, and they are infinitely better.

If the bottle sticks in the cap form just pull it towards you and it'll pop right out.

I've capped hundreds of bottles with my cheap as I could find bench capper, no hassle, takes a few seconds each bottle.

Cantilever cappers aren't necessarily bad, but the plastic ones flex too much, and as a result are junk. A good metal cantilever costs the same as a cheap bench capper, it's a no brainer.

 

[Birkin]

Just to add, if you want a cheap capper, the hammer on cappers are actually really effective.

I didn't like the idea of hammering the caps on, but in practice they work surprisingly well!

 

[TheRedDarren]

You can also get a 29mm capper adapt or for this one MyQul, so you can reuse Hoegaarden and Leffe bottles if you like.

 

[MyQul]

You can also get a 29mm capper adapt or for this one MyQul, so you can reuse Hoegaarden and Leffe bottles if you like.

That's one of the reasons I got this particulat model as not all bench capper seem to come with the 29mm bell end (knew I'd be able to get a knob joke in the thread at some point :lol:). Haven't got any Hoegaarden or Leffe bottles at the mo but doesn't mean to say I wont have in the future, so I wanted to future proof myself on this bit of kit

 

[MyQul]

They're just cheap, plastic and flexible. They work well with bottles that have a good square neck to grab, but not so well on others.

I wholeheartedly recommend that any honebrewer avoids them like the plague.

If you shop around bench cappers can be found for �£23, and they are infinitely better.

If the bottle sticks in the cap form just pull it towards you and it'll pop right out.

I've capped hundreds of bottles with my cheap as I could find bench capper, no hassle, takes a few seconds each bottle.

Cantilever cappers aren't necessarily bad, but the plastic ones flex too much, and as a result are junk. A good metal cantilever costs the same as a cheap bench capper, it's a no brainer.

I did see b-cappers for £23 but of course everwhere had sold out and I couldn't hang around waiting till they came back in stock my wilko one is now dead and I have two full FV's

 

[MyQul]

Finished capping 60x330ml bottles a little earlier with the the new b-capper. All I can say is Wow! I used to be able to cap my bottles using the wilko/youngs lever capper pretty fast but this is like the ferrari of cappers (my b-capper is red so helps with the analogy ). I can easily cap each bottle in about 5 or so.
If anyone is umming and ahhing about it. Get one! You wont be disapointed

 

[BeerCat]

Ive been meaning to get one of these. Amazed my wilko one hasn't bust mid way through to be honest. Cool it can do 29mm bottles. Any idea where you can buy the caps?