cork

[berrycrush]

Both my hand corker and floor corker often leave about 1/8 of an inch of cork outside the bottle. What is the trick to make it flush?

 

[GreginND]

I'm not sure about the hand corker, but on your floor corker you should be able to adjust the depth of the cork by turning the stop on the top and raising it up. That way, the plunger will push it further in before the stop hits the top of the corker.

 

[cpfan]

You could be overfilling your bottles. Also floor corkers (at least the ones I've seen) and some hand corkers have a depth adjustment.

Can you post a picture of the neck of a bottle showing how much space under the cork?

Steve

 

[ctshep97]

like cpfan said i had some i bottled and when i installed the cork it was below
the top of the bottle. i looked @ then 10 minutes later and it had pushed up above the lip. after that i did not fill the bottles as much and has been ok.
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[berrycrush]

You could be overfilling your bottles. Also floor corkers (at least the ones I've seen) and some hand corkers have a depth adjustment.

Can you post a picture of the neck of a bottle showing how much space under the cork?

Steve

You can see through some of the bottles. It is not that full.

 

[cpfan]

Looks like the fill level is pretty good. Have a look for the adjustment on your corkers.

Steve

 

[dralarms]

I was having the same problem, are you wetting your corks? I was, once I stopped I no longer have this problem.

 

[Turock]

Yes, there is an adjustment nut on the floor corker. Another way to do it, especially on some of the shorter bottles with short necks like the Charles Shaw bottles, is to put a piece of wood under the bottle to get it up a little higher.