cheap bottle filler - help

[cerbera84]

Evening all,

Just been in the shed attempting to make a cheap bottle filler. Started off with a standard rubber bung:

Untitled by Ben Southall, on Flickr

Marked up a rough shape:

Untitled by Ben Southall, on Flickr

Did a few cuts:

Untitled by Ben Southall, on Flickr

A quick spin on the drill with a file:
Untitled by Ben Southall, on Flickr

And Bobs your uncle:
Untitled by Ben Southall, on Flickr

BUT, there is a problem. When the bottle is held up against the bung, the pressure forces the beer out the valve higher up the tap. Dropping the pressure to almost nothing helped slightly, but I'm not convinced it'll work.

The end result:
Untitled by Ben Southall, on Flickr

Will leave a day in the bottle and open to check for carbonation levels.

Does anyone have a way of improving this? If this is doomed to failure, I'll just copy the "we don't need no stinking beer gun" guys on youtube....

[aamcle]

You might be interested in this - http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/74451 ... try1062270

It works, the most I've done with it is twenty bottles but It wasn't that much trouble.

Atb. Aamcle

[cerbera84]

is that purely for pet bottles aamcle? I'm trying to fill standard glass bottles

[DaveGillespie]

There's no way to release pressure on your design. Most stopper based designs have another hole in the stopper for the air to be pushed out.

[aamcle]

Yes its just for pet, maybe you can think of a mod to make it do glass. That would be great

Aamnle