Is there any way you can get a bung out of demijohn?

[sb44]

I know it sounds like a daft question for the title of a thread but I mean out of the main body of the demi.

One of the 4 that I collected from someone off freecycle today has a rubber bung indside it!

How the hell do you use so much force that it lands inside it? She said she only made one lot of wine as it was like paintstripper (was a kit). My husband says she gave up 'cos it tasted like rubber.

[sb44]

Just posted this thread in the wrong section, if you could please move it to the appropriate forum Bob.

Ta.

Sharon

[Rich]

Bugger.. .just posted a reply in the other thread about your demijons...

copied/pasted...

Don't give up on it, try the plastic bag in the bottle trick.. Push a carrier bag into the bottle, jiggle it around a bit so the cork is near the hole, then inflate the carrier slightly, then pull the bag out, hopefully with cork.

It may work on a demijon too. it may not but then you won't be using it..

Well done on getting some off freecycle!

[lockwood1956]

Is it a solid bung? if so Rich's plastic bag effort should wrk, if it had a hole in it...use a wire coat hanger

regards
Bob

[Rich]

Is it a solid bung? if so Rich's plastic bag effort should wrk, if it had a hole in it...use a wire coat hanger

regards
Bob

MY plastic bag effort???

You showed it to me Bob, I'm sure!!

[sb44]

Yep but it must be hard enough trying to push a bung fully into a demijohn let alone pull it through the neck without any force from the other end!

No it's not a solid one, it's a bored one.

Well wouldn't you be being stuck in there all the time.

I'll get me coat!

[lockwood1956]

MY plastic bag effort???

You showed it to me Bob, I'm sure!!

yes I did!


but hey ho...I forgot my own birthday last year!

[fatbloke]

I understand that the plastic bag trick works better if you wipe the bag down with shampoo or washing up liquid - but make sure it's still moist as it can get sticky when it's drying out.

regards

JtFB

[sb44]

Mmmmmmmm!

I think I may have to pass on this one.

I just can't picture what the eck you are trying to explain.

I get a carrier bag and push it into the dj and then inflate it?

[lockwood1956]

Yep but it must be hard enough trying to push a bung fully into a demijohn

no....its real easy, put the bung into the DJ and then try to push the airlock into the bung....pops right in there (to my eternal shame I have done it TWICE...once is a mistake...twice=incompetence)

[lockwood1956]

Moral of the story?

Always put the airlock into the bung first, and then insert bung into airlock (the reason we always have the answers to your problems, is that we have all messed up too!)

regards
Bob

[sb44]

It WORKED!!!!!!!

Yey, how could what sounds like such a daft idea work?

Sorry Bob, the husbands comment not mine.

[sb44]

God know what I was trying to do with it.

The other half pushed the bottom of the carrier bag into dj with the handles sticking out of the top. Blew into it to inflate it slightly, turned the dj upside down so that the bung landed on top of what looked like a miniature hot air balloon and just dragged the carrier bag back out, enveloping the bung and dragging that out at the same time.

Unbelievable.

Thanks Bob, the makings of a party trick that one!

[sb44]

Moral of the story?

Always put the airlock into the bung first, and then insert bung into airlock (the reason we always have the answers to your problems, is that we have all messed up too!)

regards
Bob

Now that is one thing I know how do do, I guess the woman that gave me the dj's didn't!