Will a hair dryer work??

[Lurker]

My heat gun works great, $27. at Sears.

 

[JordanPond]

Lets assume we are talking about 750ml bottles.... at the 200 gallon limit you could MAKE 1009 bottles of wine.

 

[lloyd]

Due to the depletion of water especially heading down toward ibglowin I chose to go this route. Works for over 1001 bottles a year.

Thats one Freaking awesome label shrinker!!!!!
Im into my Almond Flavored Sparkling Apple wine boy it's GOOD!!

 

[mxsteve625]

I use an old cast iron tea kettle (had it layiing around for years) on a portable electric heating element. The steam out of the small spout works really well and fast.

 

[Brian]

I use a dual speed heat gun bought from Harbor Freight for $7. on sale and it is awesome! Just make sure you don't have your finger holding the cap down use a spoon handle or somthing.. Ouchhhhhhhh!

 

[Runningwolf]

I use a dual speed heat gun bought from Harbor Freight for $7. on sale and it is awesome! Just make sure you don't have your finger holding the cap down use a spoon handle or somthing.. Ouchhhhhhhh!

thats a big 10-4

 

[Lurker]

I use a dual speed heat gun bought from Harbor Freight for $7. on sale and it is awesome! Just make sure you don't have your finger holding the cap down use a spoon handle or somthing.. Ouchhhhhhhh!

Wow, what a great deal and I didn't even get a spoon with mine.

 

[Vanterax]

We have a food steamer in the kitchen and that's what I use. The steam hole is large enough so I tip the bottle and hold the cap against one edge of the hole. Shrinks that PVC cap in seconds and without wrinkles.

 

[grapeman]

Due to the depletion of water especially heading down toward ibglowin I chose to go this route. Works for over 1001 bottles a year.

One thing I found with this encapsulator is don't try to quickly remove the bottle to put a different color on. I did that the other day and the capsule fell off inside the heat coil. I stood there dumbfounded and watched as it shriveled up, smoked and caught fire. I blew the fire out and watched the smoke billow out. I turned it off as quick as I could, grabbed a long handled steel spoon and fished it out. The aromatics of burnt plastic lingered for hours...........

 

[philogeek]

Chalk up another vote for the 'boiling water and spoon dunking' method