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Recycling bottles

Started by Donny, October 19, 2015, 11:04:45 PM

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shweeney

Quote from: Drum on October 19, 2015, 11:23:35 PM
Stay away from Tyskie bottles, crown cappers tend to break the neck when capping.


I'd say half my bottles are Tyskie (cos it's cheap, I like it and the bottles are brown and really easy to delabel) - I've never had one break...

Drum

Quote from: shweeney on October 20, 2015, 03:13:38 PM
Quote from: Drum on October 19, 2015, 11:23:35 PM
Stay away from Tyskie bottles, crown cappers tend to break the neck when capping.


I'd say half my bottles are Tyskie (cos it's cheap, I like it and the bottles are brown and really easy to delabel) - I've never had one break...

I started using them for pretty much the same reasons but I cracked 1 or 2 on the second or third batch. Kept happening in the next batches with 1 or 2 bottles each time so I got rid of them, changed to O'sheas/O'haras and I havent broken one since.

They might be ok to use a few times (or fine with a bench capper, dunno cause I havent used one) but I found they didnt last more than a few uses before the crown capper started snapping the necks

Donny

Quote from: CH on October 20, 2015, 01:18:25 PM
no problems using either of their bottles with bench capper

Quote from: Donny on October 20, 2015, 11:56:08 AM
Unfortunately I'm based in Tipperary. No plans to head up that way anytime soon either :(
Approximately where?

In Thurles