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Tony
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024
I kinda' had my doubts, but this is an extremely nice, very efficient corker.Very smooth with plenty of leverage to make it a real workhorse and trouble free corking machine.I would, if you have the need, highly recommend it.
Rango's dad
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2024
Other than not receiving any instructions with this floor corker, I give this 5 stars. It sits very sturdily on 3 legs. It comes with one leg off, so you will need a phillips screwdriver to attach the cross leg.It is heavier than I expected, which should be a good thing when I start corking the wine bottles.
OceanBlue
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
Product was packaged horribly. It’s easy to figure out but for this price instructions would be nice. Definitely makes corking wine bottles easy.Issues we experienced:The nut for setting depth has no jam nut or way from stopping it from moving. Once it moves the cork depth will change.The loading spring device for bottles was sticking badly. Some WD-40 freed it up but was sticking right from the start.Even when the dept nut was secured the cork depth in bottles was erratic. I had to pull many corks and reset with new. I bought good quality bottles and corks. I have used other corkers that did not have this issue.Overall the corker did its job but seemed extremely quirky to me.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2023
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Alex Miracle
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2022
Using this Corker is absolutely brilliant when you have more than just a few bottles to prepare. Once I figured out the sweet spot of tension needed from the handle for the bottle pad to loosen I immediately tested the contraption on 2 dozen bottles of varying sizes for height and width use of the bottle pad. I had no issues with any size difference and setup for each bottle was quite easy since the pad is spring loaded to assist.My only negative was the fact that I could see an issue with the general public figuring out the sweet spot of the arm bar since the product came with little to no instructions that stated this was necessary. I don't mean to sound like an axx but I saw plenty of reviews/videos saying their product was broken and it simply makes me wonder about the arm. Especially some of the videos where I can see the arm is not in released tension. So please, fair warning, If you buy this make sure to fiddle with the arm before feeling disheartened and thinking it improper because this tool is so very much necessary for anyone wanting to expand operations. It took me a moment after first unboxing and fiddling with the product to understand that it wasn't defective or needed a tension screw to be loosened but instead just had that glorious sweet spot.
SoftwareRancher
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2022
Handy little gadget. Much better than the handcorker I used to use. With floor corker you don't have to soak the corks nor do you have to fight to get them into the bottle. You just put your bottle onto the spring-loaded platform, drop the cork in the square hole and pull the lever down. With the corker on the floor you can just use your body weight to power the cork in. Pushing down on the lever locks the platform so that the bottle doesn't back away from the cork. There's a screw adjustment on the cork plunger that sets the cork depth which is really easy to set and probably you only have to set it once. I've done 48 bottles and am really happy with it. You do have to bend over to use it when it's on the floor. If you're doing a 100 bottles in a session it might be hard on the back; in that case there are versions that stand much higher and might be easier to use (they cost more and are probably harder to store).
Honest Ed
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2019
This was my first try at corking and this little red Portuguese floor corker made it a very easy, almost fun experience! The corker will certainly last my lifetime if I don't fall over it or run over it with my jeep. One nut puts it all together. Simple. Inserting a cork in a bottle (and I used the larger #9 corks that were DRY) is easy with this corker...it just slips them into the bottle as you push down on the handle. If I ever felt any resistance whatsoever I just "jiggled" the handle a tad and the cork slid right on in. For someone corking 5-100 bottles at a time I don't think you'd go wrong with this corker. Naturally it's not a commercial-grade machine, but for a serious hobbiest it should be great. Those are the "Pros" that come to mind.Now here are two "Cons" that I've ran into about this corker. Both can be overcome and really no biggie.The first one is the nut that attaches the small cross-leg frame to the main frame. It is just that...a nut. I had read in some other descriptions of similar corkers where they had a wing-nut to attached the cross-leg frame with which would mean the assembly would not require any tools. Being as this is a nut, you need a ratchet/socket or some type of a wrench to snug the nut up...you can't really get it tight enough doing it with your fingers. I may take the nut to Lowes or HD and match a wing-nut up to it...then no more tools needed.The second "Con" is in regards to the depth-gauge nut/flange that sets how far the cork is set into the bottle. The nut tends to move freely and will drift off from where you set it. With mine this caused a couple of corks to be set a touch deeper than I wanted. I caught it quick enough and readjusted it. Before I cork more bottles (gotta make some more wine first!!) I'm going to wrap the threads of the plunger with teflon tape so that the nut won't move freely as it currently does. It will still be able to be adjusted but shouldn't move on its own anymore with the tape in place.I guess I could have knocked a star off for the assembly nut and the depth-gauge nut but really they're not deal-breakers or reason to diminish the worth of this corker in inserting corks in bottles...it does that exceedingly well and you can use #9 corks with ease. I know I'll never regret this purchase and glad I bought it early on in my wine making.
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