Too wide to fit in my tumbler

[chosi]

I'm unable to tumble a bitters bottle because it's base is too wide to fit into my finger stopple.
But I just had a crazy idea, and I wanna get some feedback on what my chances of success are.
The crazy idea will be in the next post...

 

[chosi]

Here's my crazy idea: I filed down the fingers on the finger-stopple so that they actually come to a point.
So now, any bottle that is narrow enough to fit into the canister should fit into the finger stopples.
Ingenious?
Insane?
Should I expect a wonderfully clean bottle, or a bunch of broken glass after I try a tumble?

 

[epackage]

4" stopper and tube if the one you're showing is a 3", 6" tube and stopper if your's is a 4" ..

 

[tigue710]

not to be a jerk but you ruined your stopple... it will not hold bottles well now. Your also not going to have enough room for the bottle to safely fit in tube and it most likely will come loose in there like that

 

[suzanne]

The bottle appears to be clean already.

 

[captcadillac]

I have to agree with Tigue's and Suzanne's posts.
How about getting a larger stopple and canister? If you tumble enough bottles, you'll probably need them eventually.
CaptCadillac

 

[chosi]

> The bottle appears to be clean already.

The bottle has lots of sickness, and needs a tumble (see photo).

> 4" stopper and tube if the one you're showing is a 3", 6" tube and stopper if your's is a 4"

I'm trying to avoid buying a larger canister for just this one bottle.

> not to be a jerk but you ruined your stopple...

It was in my junk pile anyway, since it was old and pretty worn. I have a previous posting on this forum about a finger stopple that came apart on my during a tumble. I'm just hoping this one will last for one more tumble.

 

[JOETHECROW]

No expert on tumbling but couldn't you rig a piece of 6 inch pvc temporarily for the larger diameter? Then you just need a way to hold it...[8|] [&o] []

 

[chosi]

ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW
No expert on tumbling but couldn't you rig a piece of 6 inch pvc temporarily for the larger diameter? Then you just need a way to hold it...[8|] [&o] []

It's the "way to hold it" part that makes it difficult. The stopples cost about $40 each.

 

[JOETHECROW]

I was thinking of ways I'd try without risking the bottle....maybe it would be easy to make a wood "holder" for the top and bottom...perhaps a piece of plywood with a neckhole cut out, and a similar piece with a diameter of the base cut out...or something along those lines. Just a thought.