need help getting rubber stopper out of glass carboy.

[Fremont Brewer]

Hello,

I knew a month ago I was screwed. I put the airlock/rubber stopper into my glass carboy. The glass and starstan was so slippery the bung would not stay in place. I kept pushing it in and it went into the neck. I let it finish out lagering and today I siphoned. The beer turned out ok. But now my rubber stopper is stuck in the glass carboy. %^#%^#%^

Does anyone have any experience or tricks to get this out?

Please help.

Thanks in advance,
John

[BDawg]

Get a plastic supermarket bag. make a "rope" out of it, but don't twist it or make it too tight.
Put one end of the "rope" into the carboy neck, then blow it up a little bit like a balloon to make it puff up like a baloon.
Tip the carboy upside down so the stopper falls into range of the hole in contact with the "baloon". Slowly and gently, start applying pressure so that the bag grips the stopper. It takes some work, but given some time and jiggling, and pulling at it, it will eventually come out.

Good luck & HTH-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEiMpIoCamM

[snowcapt]

Id use a small extended forceps. Turn the carboy upsidedown and get that sucker out like you would do if you were fishing your favorite kure iut of a pesky fish.
Dig?

[Fremont Brewer]

Thanks guys! Bdawg, I did the plastic bag triick! VERY COOL !!!! Thank you!!!!!!

[captain carrot]

A handkerchief works well too for retrieving stoppers.

[brewinhard]

A bent piece of metal coathanger has worked for me in the past. Thank god I only had to do that once...what a PITA.


Loved Bdawgs idea! Ha.... glad it worked for you! ahhhhh....the power of the BN army.

[Adam]

Wet washcloth does the same trick. Learned about it here too.