01-01-2022, 03:00 PM
(01-01-2022, 01:14 PM)grampahol Wrote: So last night the wife wanted to open a bottle of wine, but for some reason our cork screw(s) got up and walked away, probably via my alcoholic son when he left..
So anyway..I found a solution!
Enter one fat deck screw, a pair of large visegrips, a wooden bench vise and a screwdriver.. I drove the deck screw into the cork, squeezed the bottle in the vise, grabbed the screw with the visegrips, placed the screwdriver in the opening of the visegrips and VIOLA! My wife got slightly inebriated.. I don't drink so I enjoyed the reverse engineering of a bottle of wine cork..
The same happened to me years ago when I was in the middle of a move between two houses. I was distraught at the fact that the wine was currently with me but the corkscrew was 20 miles away late at night. So a light bulb went off in my head...I put a screw in the cork and just pulled on the screw with a pair of channel locks. It helps when you can think outside the box sometimes
Lucky you didnt crack the bottle in the vice but nice job thinking outside the box for a solution
