Long Neck Twisties showing signs of cracking on bottling

[Phantom]

Well this was the first time I have experienced this, might need to put up a sign asking for crown seals from all those old bottlers.

I have used the bottles three times without any cracking, just today using the same caps, butterfly bottle capper, although getting another capper soon.

any one else suffered from this, BTW backed up this brew straight away with another Cerveza from coopers, the first one is coming along nicekly but only been in the bottle three weeks.

Phantom

[501]

Yeh I think It is recommended to only cap twist tops with a bench capper.

cheers 501

[MHD]

Bench capper=best $50-60 you can spend

[JaCk_SpArRoW]

Check out this link

http://thebrewshop.com.au/shop/product_ ... ucts_id=90

[Phantom]

GDAMMM*&(^%$$###@@@@@

Saw one at K-Mart not so long ago clearance for $9
Ah Well such is life.
will call in tommorrow in vain hope
Phantom

[JaCk_SpArRoW]

The cheapest I have been able to find is $55 at a HBS just down the road from me opposed to my other local HBS who sell them for $73.50

[silkworm]

Try e-bay $10-$15

I had a bottle explode on me last week. I'm sure it was weakened from use and eventually gave up as the pressure increased a week after bottling...
With the rest of the batch the carbonation after 3 weeks is on the low end of good as hoped not a risk of bombs normally.
It might be time to upgrade the batch to the new coopers longies.
The long neck ale is now in a roll top bottle isn't it?

[gregb]

The new Coopers tallie is a roll top, and a heavy sucker at that too.
Coopers indicated that they designied it with homebrewers in mind.

Cheers,
Greg