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..
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(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
(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..
Way more professional then me. I once shredded a cork with a knife down into the wine itself. Then poured it out through a small orange juice strainer thingy I had just over the glass.
(01-01-2022, 10:27 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Way more professional then me. I once shredded a cork with a knife down into the wine itself. Then poured it out through a small orange juice strainer thingy I had just over the glass.
One time I was with some friends in the woods and all we had left to drink was pure grain alcohol, but we had ran out of the fruit punch we wer mixing it with. All we had was water in a cooler from melted ice and coconut suntan lotions. The lotion has aloe in it and I know people drink aloe for upset stomach. We mixed up a batch and called them PGAcoladas.
The water from the cooler was nasty we considered trying to strain it through something, but then we decided that the alcohol would kill any germs.
It was disgusting but we were like a pack of drunken animals.
(01-01-2022, 10:27 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Way more professional then me. I once shredded a cork with a knife down into the wine itself. Then poured it out through a small orange juice strainer thingy I had just over the glass.
(01-01-2022, 02:01 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I have pushed corks down into the bottle before when I had no way to pull them out.
That's the easiest way, grab a wood handled kitchen spoon and shove it in there. Just be aware that you are finishing the bottle where you are unless you have an extra cork or wine stopper around!
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