Capping beer bottles with screw tops?

[mrdave]

My brother has about 40 brown beer bottles that I can have, but im not sure if a standard capper will cap the bottles or not.

They had crown caps on them when he bought them but the bottles are the type with a thread on the end so that you can screw the cap off instead of using a bottles opener.

Does anyone know if a bottle capper will cap these or not?

I will try and get a pick up of the bottles and show you what I mean.

[mrdave]

OK, heres a couple of pics, hopefully someone will be able to tell me if a standard capper will cap these or not.

PS - I dont yet have a bottle capper or I would have just tried. Just dont want lots off bottles lying around the house if they are not going to be of any use.

[sparky Paul]

Those look like the bottles the lager from Lidl comes in...

I'm not sure if they can be capped by hand, I've always thought the glass with the threaded bit looks quite a bit thinner than normal capped bottles. I'm not sure I would want to risk it. They aren't very heavy glass either, if they're the ones I'm thinking of.

[Madbrewer]

You could try ... I tried to get a seal once on threaded bottles and I couldn't. I also read somewhere that the metal for the screw thread ones is thinner to allow it to bend around the thread itself and get a better seal. Despite myself getting away without using 'thick as possible' glass bottles before now, theres a genuinely high amount of people who have had explosions resulting from 'bottles' (thin or otherwise I don't know), so extreme care, keeping them out of harms way (garage) in a box, wearing safety goggles when opening, handling & transporting and being aware of the danger would seem prudent precautions if you are going to experiment. Just becuase I got away with it ...... doesn't mean you will. The consensus here recently was that the best way of getting your hands on suitable bottles was to ask the local pub landlord to save you some empty magners bottles.