A cork broke down in the Chinese thermos.
Only old Chinese thermoses (I have 2 of them) hold all day hot tea-coffee in travel and they do not give anything other than tea-coffee. But the plug should be only from cork oak. There are no equal heat conduction. Soft enough, so as not to break the flask when cooled when the plug is drawn inside. Unfortunately, they dry and dying, crumbling. Cork oak does not grow with us, otherwise I would cut it myself. And only plates made of glued cork crumbs are on sale. And it is not known that there is in the plate for fason ski mastics. Or in the foam, from which 90% of the advisers are advised in return. You can, of course, glue and deceive the cork with a sealant (still go find food) or wrap the foil (on a paper basis!). But why not in the sale of factory traffic jams and flasks to chinese thermos? It was in the USSR.

In the internet found a person who makes any corks to order from cork oak. And even the phone was. But Ukrainian. I was afraid to call.

A good option suggested me LJ Penkin .

Here is his recipe:
We take a plastic bottle (good dairy with a wide neck), so that the neck roughly coincides with the diameter with the diameter of the thermos neck. Next, we take the bottle corks and stuff in the neck - so that the part is sticking out in one direction (this sticking part and will be a plug that will lock the thermos). In my case, it fit is not perfectly tight, but it works.

Thanks to him. I think that you can make a fit of the fact that the screw cork-cup is fully curved will press gently the entire system to the neck. + food sealant to close the gaps and make plastic plastic on the sealant of the same type of gasket between the neck and a piece of bottle.

And I tried another option: (see below version Cork number 5)

grilled one-piece 8 wine plugs (it turned out half of my stock - the plugs glued out of cork oak crumbs are poorly suitable for such a job, although I see such a picture in the picture), I pre-cover them on a round and flat rashpils, (it remains to cut and cut the perimeter in size sample). I had a problem, you need to close the cracks between parts. It seems best for this food sealant. Found the best price CEMLUX 9014, but I do not see it in retail.

I tried to find a corter of a cork tree on sale, there are only pieces

or plate and tube

All of them are thin and oh expensive. Yeah, here, it seems, the desired! For terrariums! Here is a plate of 1 kg for 353 rubles, however, go for the Moscow Ring Road, but it looks like a deso, in other places the same from 1 000 (!!!) rub apiece, from this already you can cut the mug of the desired diameter, albeit with a small thickness, then glue.

Along the way, found curious:

"The harvesting of the cortex is made after reaching the 25-year-old tree. With the help of a special ax, the bark is cut along and in the circle of the tree trunk, and then fought by the pointed end of the tool. The first collection material is used very rarely and only for technical purposes. Tubes have full properties. Oak Third Collection.

The natural cork plug is harvested in the summer in days when there is no sultry wind. The new full-fledged layer of the crust is formed only 8-9 years after the billets. After collecting, the bark is dried directly on the plantation for six months and only then goes for subsequent processing. "

That is why such difficulties with the purchase of spare traffic jams. I think this is the most expensive part of the Chinese thermos.

Pancake! Or maybe in China easier to order? By mail through the Internet?

I turn to the point.

"If I decide, so I will not have anything"
Vladimir Vysotsky

Cork number 1.

I started with the fact that I tried to revive the old, pissing, but my native cork.
He took an ancient medical plaster with a width of 2 cm. He was lying so that he was impregnated with glue through and became sticky on both sides of the tape, which makes it unsuitable for ordinary goals, and I was just good - a bilateral eco-friendly velcro. Approximately 5 layers of the patch on the plug wound and reached the desired diameter (easily inserted plug hung in the neck around the middle of its height). The top of the food foil is added from above, which perfectly stuck to the plaster. At the same time, it is 100% missing glue out. Inserted into the neck and twisted a little - the plug entered deeper and sealing became beautiful.
PS: Wash the plaster should be so that the tape tape is maintained, then when plugging and twist, a small ring tubercock is formed from a soft patch under the foil between the edge of the neck and the metallic imagine. For this tubercle it is easy to remove a plug of thermos.
PS: There are space for further improvement following Example No. 2 with a handle (see)

Cork number 2.

In the second thermos, the cork has been preserved much better, however, and she flick a little. So that the neck tightly stuck up, it must be pushed to the aluminum lid. As a result, it is very difficult to open the thermos, the traffic jam when cooled the content is drawn into the failure and over the neck is only a cover. It is not glued to the plug, but just slightly rolled and keeps at the expense of the cork tape. You pull the cover - the thin metal is squeezed - and the cover flies from the plugs, you begin to pull out further, with your fingers, nails - the cork begins to crumble, break.
It is so in most cases that it comes in disrepair, it is necessary to cut off the plug layer, so that it is necessary to wear a cap (inadequate, it is necessary to fade, wrinkle it), and the plug in the end dangles in the neck - and here the patch and foil goes into the course.
I thought, and why, while the plug did not get finally, not to fasten the handle to the tube on top to remove the plug. The material is the same cork, only not wine, but from champagne (its integrity is not broken by a corkscrew). Let it not be solid, and glued out of pieces. At first, I made a short one, but by reflection, I decided to increase it length so that when screwing up the cup, it pressed the entire system to the neck of the flask, but very gently, so as not to break the fragile glass. It provides almost complete tightness when turning the thermos. In addition, for reliability before assembly, I removed the metal cap, missed it from the inside with nail polish (I often use it as glue) and again rolled it again. The bonding screw used a galvanized with a wide head-washer, deepening it with 5 mm in the handle. Poured the body of the screw and the deepening in the handle with glue and closed on the same glue with decorative impart from a piece of narrow end of the tube from champagne.
PS: The height of the cup in different thermoses is different, so the calculation is made at the place. Check. Insert the system tightly in the neck. Slightly burn your fingers top of a cup inside and screw. If at the very end of the screwing we see how the cutting of the top of the cup is straightened - the result is achieved. If this happens earlier - stepping or cutting a top of the handle. Well, or a glass will have to do not finish the thread, which is worse.

Cork number 3.

Improving the idea of \u200b\u200bPenkina, I improved it somewhat.

1. In the photo it can be seen that I cut off completely, but not under the very brown, and leaving a small piece of the neck without thread. It makes it possible to rest in the neck of the thermos not a hard oblique thread, but a smooth plane of the bintice, at the same time a little penetrating the torn in it. Of course, it is also possible to mix the bureau's joint and protrusion with a sealant, but absolute tightness can lead to the fact that with full cooling of the contents (especially if the air in the flask there will be a lot, but a little liquid) flask can break from the vacuum. After all, a hard design, unlike soft plug, will not be able to draw inside.
2. Hinged the top of the design sealant. Since it is practically not in contact with the contents, I allowed myself to use the most ordinary white sealant moment, and not food, which is expensive and difficult to find. The contents in the end should cool not as fast as without sealing.
3. The sealant I made a convex, accurately calculated the height of the design (in my case it is without sealant - 35 mm + 1 cm sealant protector). The convexity of the sealant gently and elastically rests from the inside to the center of the cup of the cup when screwing (soft metal allows 2-3 mm of backlash) and ensures reliability of tightness when thermos is turned over.

PS: Checking the accuracy of assembly produced according to Example number 2 (see)

Cork number 4.

I did not satisfy me the quality of the traffic jam number 3, and I made a change.

1. Reduced from 5 to 3rd number of cork parts using only champagne corks. This made it possible to drive parts with great effort into the neck and protrusing cork parts became densely in the neck, ensuring greater safety of heat. Yes, and looks more beautiful. Although there was a small ovality of plastic when squeezing pieces, it does not interfere with the dense contact of the design with the flask. If №3 is a backlash in the neck, then No. 4 is already starting with the cork piece, it is densitive, but without effort concerns the flask.


2. Poured the sealant inside the design is not only from above, but carefully between pieces to the flavored itself, so that the liquid from the thermos does not penetrate between the plugs, hanging in it with the threat of zaking. At the same time No. 4 became 2 times heavier No. 3!
3. Tightened the design with a convex part of the sealant of food film for a better product type of construction


A day later, the film can be removed and sucking the sealant without it. The full impression that the film was not filmed. But it is not !!! Beauty !!?

Threat: Sealant Skyuych (smells acetic essence), so drying is better to produce on the staircase at least three days three days.

Cork number 5, etc. - dead-end options

1. I spent a lot of time to pull out and glue nail polish here such Iketubana.


But because of the excellence №3 and №4, further processing was recognized as inexpedient due to excessive consideration.
2. It was possible to buy a real cork bark and food sealant and build almost a copy of the original. But expensive and time will occupy a cloud.
3. In Chinese internet also look for laziness. If you suddenly in gratitude for my work, send a link to the purchase on the purchase on the right plug for the thermos - I will be grateful and submitting it in this epochable post, but I doubt whether I will bother with the order when I already have even 2 replacement options : For one thermos number 1 and for another number 3.
4. Somehow it has long stumbled into an internet for the extension of the plug due to drilling it in the center and clogging into the hole of the cylinder slightly larger diameter. Before climbing the plug must be unpiring !!! If anyone tries and succeeds - the wind in the sail.

As promised, this article will feature two ideas as the usual cork plug, using decor, can be turned into an original decoration of your bottle or decanter. Let's start.

Cork plug.

Decor twine.

(Master Class)

We need:

• Two cork plugs
• Tassel flat
• Twine
• PVA glue
• Water-based lacquer

The first thing that is worth thinking about, about the convenience of using our cork. We want it or not, we need to make it more. Decide, with a small stopper, it will be more. To do this, connect two jams with a screw:

Further, from the twine, we make "tails", we put the twine in the loops we need long. We tend our bundle from the "tails" to the end of the twine does not cut it off from the bobbin. The small tip is glued the place with the "tails" with a adhesive gun or superclosure to the top of our cork, do not touch the long working thread.

Covering a piece of cork with glue and begins to wrap our cork in a circle, leaving a small part of the plug is not covered, so that we can insert it into the neck of the bottle.

How many rows of twine you will apply on each other depends on the thickness of the neck on the bottle or decanter. It will look very beautiful and carefully when the cork and neck bottle will be one straight line. Something like this:

decor bottles as a gift "Moonshine"

In this embodiment, three layers of twine. How to make such a bottle you can read

Cover our cork with PVA glue into two layers, giving each layer to dry well. I fix everything with varnish, also in two layers.

This procedure is not required, unless there is a frequent direct impact on the subject, for example with hands, water, etc.

Cork plug. Decor "Corn"

Honestly, as it usually happens, I spied the idea. Considering the photo on the Internet, I do not remember the topic, I came across the photo of a huge bottle, where the Corn's Copper was used instead of a traffic jam, I really liked it, so I decided to realize this idea. You ask: "But it would not be easier to take and buy ordinary corn and arrange it properly?" I will answer, it can also be easier, but the corn is the corn there is one big drawback, it is his fragility. Such a traffic jam will last shorter. So, what we need:

• Two cork plugs
• Saws, long enough to join the plugs
• Tassel flat
• Corn grade, which is used for cooking Pop Corn
• Adhesive gun or superchalter
• PVA glue
• Water-based lacquer

• Connect the corks with a screw
• With the help of adhesive guns, we glue corn grains to traffic jam

• Leave a free small piece of traffic jam

cubery "Corn"

• Processing PVA 2-3 layers
• We treat varnish

That's how our cork will look at the bottle.

Well, now I have left the original bottle to this traffic jam.

This is from the case when the end is already there, and the beginning has not yet been.

On this expelling to bow. Today, everything. To new meetings. And the most important thing:

Plastic bottles are a universal container that can be reused. To ensure such functionality, it should be supplemented with a plug that limits the leakage of the fluid.

Simple options

Make a plug for the bottle can be different ways. Consider the algorithm for obtaining silicone traffic jams:

1. Initially, we purchase starch, silicone sealant. You will also need a plastic glass, which in size should approach the diameter of the hole in the bottle.
2. It is initially mixed by ¾ packing of starch and silicone (with a full glass volume). It is important to carefully knead the "dough" to give it a homogeneous consistency.
3. When a mixture is ready, a plug is formed from it. It is placed in a cup. So that silicone does not stick, the container is also covered with starch. It is also important to make several holes in the bottom of the glass. This will allow you to remove excess air.
4. After that, the cork should dry about 4 hours. When it is ready, it is removed from the glass and is flattered using a knife. To get rid of the smell, the workpiece should initially hold in hot water, and then in the solution of cold water and soda. Then you need to carefully dry in the fresh air.

If you need a drain hole, then it can be done in a traffic jam using a small drill. If you wish, you can form a small spout that will be used to pour water.

We use a tree

Wood is a unique material that holds moisture perfectly. Therefore, the plugs were previously done only from it. This process is quite simple and consists of several steps:

• The timing is selected a little more than the diameter of the neck.
• Then a small cone is formed from it. The easiest way to do is on the lathe. But if it is not, you can pull it out and a sharp knife. In the manufacture, it is important to constantly control its shape and approximately to the opening. The cork must be perfectly entering the gap, sealing it.
• For versatility, a small hole can also be made in the traffic jam, which allows you to pour liquid.

If you do not want to spend time, it is better to purchase a special design of plastic, which can be selected for different neck diameters.

Glass container, in contrast to plastic bottles, is suitable for re-use. For example, a beautiful wine bottle, in which you can store household wine, not only save the taste of your drink, but also on the festive table will be more appropriate. Very often, factory bottles are closed with a cortical cork, which is not re-closed, it does not work, it usually becomes several times more than the neck of the bottle. Even if you cut a knife with a knife, the initial thick closing of the bottle will not be able to achieve, besides, the cork stopper is not too durable. And if we are talking about a 10 liter bottle, then there is no old cork at all. In the nearby past, our grandmothers closed the bottle of chick from corn. Agree during technical progress, close the bottle in this way is inconsporarated and inconvenient. In our article we will tell how to make a bottle cork with your own hands so that it was beautiful, comfortable and reliable.

Silicone bottle cork do it yourself

Such a peculiar and useful handicraft can be made in several ways. Next, we will look at the most interesting of them.

Method number 1.

To make a cork for a decider bottle, you need to prepare the following components in advance:

• Plastic 100 gram cup for molding;
• Starch;
• Silicone sealant.

Important! From one packing of silicone sealant comes 3 corks.

• Push up on the table slide ¾ packing starch, make a deepening.

Important! So that silicone sticks to the table, you can put on the glass surface.

• With the help of a professional silicone pistol, squeeze silicone to the starch funnel.

Important! The amount of silicone coincides with the size of our billet, namely the plastic cup.

• Then it should be mixed with silicone and starch to homogeneous mass. So that silicone did not stick to the hands, dipped them into starch and begin to knead the ingredients, like kneading the test.

Important! When mixing silicone, it is important to achieve such a consistency so that the dough is not too tough and did not have loose formations. Otherwise, the ready traffic jam will pass the air. The mixture is ideal for the production of corks should resemble plasticine and do not pester.

• The dough for the workpiece must be thoroughly mixed so that silicone is completely soaked with starch, ride it well on the table and give a conical shape.

Important! The more the mixture it contains starch, the more rigid will be a plug.

• Then suck the harvested plug with the starch so that it does not stick to the plastic cup and easily left it at the completion of the manufacture.

Important! To get rid of excess air, on a snack with a glass with a needle or a seboard, make small punctures.

• Next, we place the raw material into the plastic cup, screwing the movements tightly and evenly distribute the mass throughout the capacity.

Important! It is not necessary to use the workpiece in the form of a cup. If it is problematic to choose the workpiece for your bottle, the plug tightly roll with your hands, measuring its diameter, and leave to dry on a flat surface.

• In this form, we leave the workpiece for 3-4 hours to dry. After the expiration of time I remove our cork from the workpiece.

Important! To speed up the drying process, after 30 minutes, place the container next to the hot surface or place the battery.

• Kitchen knife can be fired all the irregularities or reduce the diameter of the finished cork.

Important! Silicone sealant has a specific smell. To get rid of it, it is necessary to put the finished plug first in hot water, then in cold water with the addition of soda for a while, or simply make a product on fresh air.

The plug is elastic and tightly closes the neck of the bottle. It is perfect for a 10 liter bottle under the thread and a bottle with conical carvings, they are also called "Cossack" bottles.

Important! For lovers of wine-made in a traffic jam, a hole should be drilled so that air leaves the bottle. For this, the hole diameter should be a little less drainage that you will use.

Method number 2.

The following method is quite laborious and requires much more time for making than the previous one. But for those masters who like to tinker with the tool, you can use this option.

To make a bottle cork by the method that we will describe next, you will need to prepare some auxiliary tool, namely:

• Tin can from peas or corn;
• Soldering iron;
• Pistol for liquid silicone;
• Sandpaper;
• Construction hairdryer;
• Liquid silicone.

Sequencing:

• At the first stage of the manufacture of traffic jams, a mold should be made into which the liquid silicone is poured. To do this, we cut off the top and bottom in the tin can, as a result, we obtain the cylindrical shape of the workpiece.
• Then cut the workpiece vertically to get a rectangular tin rigine.
• Stangel Circle Measure the diameter of the bottle neck, twist the tin to the desired size below, smoothly expanding it up.
• When one edge comes down with another, put notches from above and below, connect the notches of the oblique line and cut the scissors.
• Carefully give the billet with a conical shape, observing the size along the entire length of the workpiece.
• Expand your workpiece and emery paper bevel and smooth turtle edge.
• Connect the two slice to each other, the soldering iron lock the workpiece in this position along the entire length. You have a conical glass without the bottom.
• Next you need to solder the bottom. First, clean the bottom cut of the workpiece by sandpaper.
• Take one of the cropped parts and the soldering iron. Sleep the bottom, clamping the edges.
• Next you need to solder a handle. For its manufacture, you can use a rigid wire or metal tube.
• Locate the location of the handle and the edge of the wire for the best adhesion of the material. The mold for casting cork from silicone is ready, you can now be taken for the manufacture of the cork itself.
• Take the construction hairdryer and set the temperature of 120 degrees.

Important! The construction hairdryer will serve to heat the shape so that silicone does not frozen while filling and uniform distribution inside the form.

• After the molding warms up, with the help of a glue gun fill it with liquid silicone.

Important! Tin shape should be kept constantly over the jet of hot air.

• Once silicone is completely covered in the container, leave it to stick it.
• At the end of the pliers, remove the food edge and pull the plug.

Corks for bottles do it yourself

You can quickly and without tools to make an alternative to the corks for the bottle.

Method number 1.

To implement this version of the traffic jam you will need a plastic bottle with a lid, corresponding to the diameter of the bottle neck.

Production sequence:

1. Type half of the water in a plastic bottle, close the lid tightly.
2. Turn over and lower the bottle bottle into the neck.
3. The device tightly and reliably closes the glass container.

Important! For winemakers, it is necessary to drill through a hole in the lid and a donkey plastic "plugs", skip the hose and close the neck of the wine bottle.

Method number 2.

From old cork plugs from wine that are not suitable for the diameter of the neck, you can make new creative corks. To do this, you will need:

• Kitchen knife;
• Cork plug;
• PVA glue;
• Wooden coils with threads of different colors.

Preparation method:

1. First of all, the caliper measured the diameter of the neck of the bottle.
2. Kitchen knife gently cut the plug conid to the appropriate diameter.
3. The top wide edge of the cork lubricate the pva glue and glue a wooden coil with threads of different colors.
4. Leave to dry completely.

Your creative corks are ready!

Stock foot

Make plugs for bottles with your own hands at home is quite simple. For this, it suffices to follow the instructions described in this article. With their help, you can make plugs of different diameters to close the large bottles, as well as make small decorative tubes for bottles with your favorite drinks. As you can see, most of the items that will be needed for this are in every home. Do not be afraid to experiment with the decoration of products. Then you will get not just corks, the bottles will look beautiful and will additionally serve elements of the decor in the room.

The plug, in the form in which is known now, appeared in the 17th century, simultaneously with a glass bottle. Prior to that, it also used, but in isolated cases. Most often, the blockage of containers was carried out with the help of rags or pieces of wood, which led to the deterioration of the contents and deterioration of taste. In contrast to the tree, the cork does not swell greatly, and with competent processing the taste of the drink and the smell do not spoil.

General

Bottles corks differ in shape and design. In the manufacturing process, special components are added, which improve the protective function and act as an exclusive beverage quality mark.

The plug for tight is inserted into the neck of the container, retains its properties for a long time and is a product of natural origin, like a good high-quality drink. Tubes are made long and difficult. Initially, cork oak bark is removed when the age of wood is about 30 years. This material is not used in production, since the corks for wine bottles are made only after 3 removal. The second layer is growing for about 10 years. Production technology is a few consecutive stages: semi-annual drying, careful selection, flushing and processing with disinfectant solution.

Classification for manufacturing material

Corks under the bottles are different. It all depends on the set of factors from which the appointment and material of the manufacture. The most common types of traffic jams:

• cork;
• plastic;
• metallic;
• rubber;
• from foil;
• synthetic;
• glass.

Cork wine corks (found among some types of champagne). Plastic bottles with non-alcoholic beverages are closed with plastic plugs, and the packaging with mineral water and beer is closed with metal covers. Rubber products are used. Many medical drugs are clogged by foil traffic jams.

Synthetic plugs based on polyethylene differ in that they do not miss moisture and easily pulled out a corkscrew. The quality of these products may be varied, silicone is considered the best in this category. The advantages of glass traffic jams are simplicity of opening and closing, an interesting appearance. Experts recommend using them for wine, which is not designed for long storage.

Separation by structural features

Bottles corks are also microgranulated, screw and buffa. Microgranulated has a homogeneous structure, high elasticity and elasticity. The production technology is rather new: food glue and a waxy substance of organic origin is added to the cortical granules of the size that does not exceed half of the millimeter (extracted from the entire process is obtained under high pressure.

The screw plug has a minor cost, eliminates the risk of developing a cork disease, but is not sufficiently strong. It is made of aluminum alloys and synthetic gasket. Bottles with a buggy cork can often be found in cosmetic stores and on counters with olive oil. Good tightness and the ability to repeatedly use a bougid tube among the others.

Production features

The cork is well compressed, and thanks to this property, it can be shunken in the neck of the bottle, where it is tightly sprinkled against the walls of the vessel because of its elasticity. This is achieved by a thorough impregnation of material and warming steam (tawding). If the plug is driving, it will be tough. In production, it is pushed through the tube in the neck.

In order to protect the material from the effects of liquids in a bottle, it is treated with paraffin at high temperatures. The cork begins to solve when cooling, so it is kneading in a special press in order to return the elastic structure.

Cork production for wine

Corks for bottles made of natural materials - the perfect way of capping, characterized by aesthetic. The product is distinguished by resistance to temperature effects, it is easy, well passes the desired amount of air, it is not amenable to rot. An ordinary genuine cork can serve about 50 years.

Production begins from the moment the layer is removed from the tree. The same year is stored in special premises, after which is undergoing treated under the action of high temperatures. Then it is cut on the plates and sent for sorting. The plates make stripes with subsequent cylindrical plugging. Standard length - from 2.5 to 7 cm. It is believed that the larger the length, the greater the price of the drink.

The next step of processing is the grinding of cylinders to provide an ideally smooth surface. After that, the product is bleached and soaked with wax. Final step - burning branded inscriptions on a traffic jam or pressing under pressure. Often, a sulfuric anhydride is added to the bottle under the tube to preserve the drink.

Bugle plug

Often you can find square bottles with a buggy plug, which produce a variety of manufacturers in order to long and proper storage of various liquids. In most cases, the container is performed from glass. As a rule, it is a small volume that is ideal for home storage of salad dressing and olive oil. The liter bottles of glass with the plug under consideration are used for the spill of lemonads, emphasis, tinctures, etc. For beautiful tanks in the style of "Vintage", the neck of which is extended, a bougid tube is a great way to keep fresh, for example, milk.

The bougid tubes consist of a cap made of high-quality and safe plastic, and a stainless steel wire holder with chromium coated. These reusable products allow for a long time to keep the freshness of drinks in the bottle.

Advantages of a buggy traffic jam

Bugel products are widely used to clog vessels, while guaranteed high tightness and reliability of packaging. Applying these bottles stoppers, you can be confident in the convenience of using and preserving the properties of the beverage. Multiple use allows to achieve significant savings.

Bougie traffic jams - a decent alternative to products of natural origin. For wine, this species is rarely used, since, according to experts, a wine bottle loses its centuries a still aesthetic appearance. However, aspects of ecology and savings in the future may be supplanted by classical ideas about the options for clogging bottles.

The traffic jam appeared in the form in which we know it relatively recently, just in the XVII century, together with the advent of the glass bottle in the mass everyday. Before that, the plug was also used, but not in such quantities. The vessels were preferred to cloculate with rags and woods, which gave the content with time not peculiar to the taste, but also spoiled him. The cork does not scatter like a tree, and with proper processing does not spoil the taste of wine or brandy, which is important.

The plug is produced from the cortex of cork oak, which grows only in several countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean coast in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. In other countries, the cork oak is practically not growing. The largest crop crop crop can be obtained in Portuguese plantations.

The first time the Corra is removed from the oak after he will be 20-25 years old. The next ten years it should be recovered. In addition, it is possible to remove the bark only at a certain season, when it is almost squeezed. During the rest of the time, the tree can be damaged. The Cora is removed not all right away, but by certain areas, therefore, the trees seem to be semi-digit. From the bark removed from one oak you can get a thousand traffic jams. The highest quality is the bark taken from a 150-year-old tree. Oak, which is more than 200 years old, begins to hurt and high-quality cortex no longer gives. It is uprooted and a new tree is planted on the vacation spot.

This is the only tree in the world, the bark of which is capable of fully regenerated. Blinking oaks are marked to know when you can shoot another harvest from them. For example, the figure 7 means that the last time the boron from this tree was filmed in 2007.

Cutting sorted. The first grade is sent to the factory, where they make traffic jams for vintage wines and cognacs, and that worse falls on the plant for the production of building insulation and noise absorbers.

The cortex of cork oak dumps in huge piles right on the territory of the plant. Before letting a plug in the case of it for several months withstand in the open sky.

First of all, the raw materials are subject to heat treatment. The plug is boiled in a huge boiler, and at the same time all sorts of spiders are destroyed, which managed to start in it.

Then cut the bark to the strip, after which it is again sorted, wash, disinfected and again soaked in water.

From these billets, plugs are cut out, and the cork crumb to which the binder is added under the press.

Refine plugs are covered with cork dust, they are used for medium price category. And the simplest and most massive traffic jams, including for champagne, are made from cork chips, whose pieces glued with special glue. Such glued plugs are also located in the bottled wine of the middle and lowest price category, designed for fast sale and short-range storage.

From the rest of the waste make various finishing materials. In the workshop, from which the traffic jam is already in packed form, you can not fit without headphones and respirator - here it is very noisy and dusty. The cork sheets are very hot. After they are cooled, they are sent to further processing - cut into standard plates.

If you push the room with such material, you can walk at least on the head - the neighbors still will not hear anything. The builders love a cork and because it, unlike plastic panels, does not highlight poisonous gases in case of fire.

As for the cork for bottles, its quality was previously checked manually. Since the plates of cork cork oak have different sizes and thickness, not all operations trusted machine guns. A worker busy directly cut the plugs per day pressed his foot on the machine pedal about ten thousand times. Now, at modern plants, electronics fully controls the whole process.

Finished plugs are subject to careful sorting. Makes this special machine. He "scans" the plug surface, and depending on how much cracks and defects detects, directs it in one or another basket. After that, it is checked again for quality. Then the plugs are washed, whiten to remove harmful substances, and placed in a 12% alcohol solution for 24 hours.

One-piece plugs are ideal for long-term storage only when complying with the necessary conditions (humidity, wine contact with cork). Comalted plugs (with spraying) are also suitable for storage, but not too long. The glued and extruded tubes allow you to store wine only a few years, after which there is a risk of spoiling the contents of the bottle.

The plug dries up, which can cause damage due to air access. Wrong is the vertical storage of wine bottles on the shelves in supermarkets. Just a few months of vertical standing under powerful lamps in the store - and such wine can spoil or lose a lot in taste.

Only a natural cork allows you to "breathe", and, in contact with wine, the bouquet additionally complements the bouquet. Bottles, cladped by genuine plug, can be stored with decades and even censes (under special conditions). For such a long "cooperation" with cork oak, the winemakers studied all the properties of the plug, and most of the famous wine critics believe that natural corks not only retain, but also improve the flavor of wine. However, there is a small percentage of marriage - a natural fee for "naturalness".

From production waste make not only building materials, but also bags, aprons, shoes and even umbrellas! Cork production is almost non-freight. Among other things, traffic jam is an indispensable material in the manufacture of rescue. On the water, it withstands the weight much more of its own, and practically does not absorb moisture.

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Glass container, in contrast to plastic bottles, is suitable for re-use. For example, a beautiful wine bottle, in which you can store household wine, not only save the taste of your drink, but also on the festive table will be more appropriate. Very often, factory bottles are closed with a cortical cork, which is not re-closed, it does not work, it usually becomes several times more than the neck of the bottle. Even if you cut a knife with a knife, the initial thick closing of the bottle will not be able to achieve, besides, the cork stopper is not too durable. And if we are talking about a 10 liter bottle, then there is no old cork at all. In the nearby past, our grandmothers closed the bottle of chick from corn. Agree during technical progress, close the bottle in this way is inconsporarated and inconvenient. In our article we will tell you how to make a plug for a bottle of 20 liters with your own hands so that it was beautiful, convenient and reliable.

Silicone bottle cork do it yourself

Such a peculiar and useful handicraft can be made in several ways. Next, we will look at the most interesting of them.

Method number 1.

How is the plug done? To make a cork for a decider bottle, you need to prepare the following components in advance:

• Plastic 100 gram cup for molding;
• Starch;
• Silicone sealant.

Important! From one packing of silicone sealant comes 3 corks.

• Push up on the table slide ¾ packing starch, make a deepening.

Important! So that silicone sticks to the table, you can put on the glass surface.

• With the help of a professional silicone pistol, squeeze silicone to the starch funnel.

Important! The amount of silicone coincides with the size of our billet, namely the plastic cup.

• Then it should be mixed with silicone and starch to homogeneous mass. So that silicone did not stick to the hands, dipped them into starch and begin to knead the ingredients, like kneading the test.

Important! When mixing silicone, it is important to achieve such a consistency so that the dough is not too tough and did not have loose formations. Otherwise, the ready traffic jam will pass the air. The mixture is ideal for the production of corks should resemble plasticine and do not pester.

• The dough for the workpiece must be thoroughly mixed so that silicone is completely soaked with starch, ride it well on the table and give a conical shape.

Important! The more the mixture it contains starch, the more rigid will be a plug.

• Then suck the harvested plug with the starch so that it does not stick to the plastic cup and easily left it at the completion of the manufacture.

Important! To get rid of excess air, on a snack with a glass with a needle or a seboard, make small punctures.

• Next, we place the raw material into the plastic cup, screwing the movements tightly and evenly distribute the mass throughout the capacity.

Important! It is not necessary to use the workpiece in the form of a cup. If it is problematic to choose the workpiece for your bottle, the plug tightly roll with your hands, measuring its diameter, and leave to dry on a flat surface.

• In this form, we leave the workpiece for 3-4 hours to dry. After the expiration of time I remove our cork from the workpiece.

Important! To speed up the drying process, after 30 minutes, place the container next to the hot surface or place the battery.

• Kitchen knife can be fired all the irregularities or reduce the diameter of the finished cork.

Important! Silicone sealant has a specific smell. To get rid of it, it is necessary to put the finished plug first in hot water, then in cold water with the addition of soda for a while, or simply make a product on fresh air.

The plug is elastic and tightly closes the neck of the bottle. It is perfect for a 10 liter bottle under the thread and a bottle with conical carvings, they are also called "Cossack" bottles.

Important! For lovers of wine-made in a traffic jam, a hole should be drilled so that air leaves the bottle. For this, the hole diameter should be a little less drainage that you will use.

Method number 2.

The following method is quite laborious and requires much more time for making than the previous one. But for those masters who like to tinker with the tool, you can use this option.

To make a bottle cork by the method that we will describe next, you will need to prepare some auxiliary tool, namely:

• Tin can from peas or corn;
• Soldering iron;
• Pistol for liquid silicone;
• Sandpaper;
• Construction hairdryer;
• Liquid silicone.

Sequencing:

• At the first stage of the manufacture of traffic jams, a mold should be made into which the liquid silicone is poured. To do this, we cut off the top and bottom in the tin can, as a result, we obtain the cylindrical shape of the workpiece.
• Then cut the workpiece vertically to get a rectangular tin rigine.
• Stangel Circle Measure the diameter of the bottle neck, twist the tin to the desired size below, smoothly expanding it up.
• When one edge comes down with another, put notches from above and below, connect the notches of the oblique line and cut the scissors.
• Carefully give the billet with a conical shape, observing the size along the entire length of the workpiece.
• Expand your workpiece and emery paper bevel and smooth turtle edge.
• Connect the two slice to each other, the soldering iron lock the workpiece in this position along the entire length. You have a conical glass without the bottom.
• Next you need to solder the bottom. First, clean the bottom cut of the workpiece by sandpaper.
• Take one of the cropped parts and the soldering iron. Sleep the bottom, clamping the edges.
• Next you need to solder a handle. For its manufacture, you can use a rigid wire or metal tube.
• Locate the location of the handle and the edge of the wire for the best adhesion of the material. The mold for casting cork from silicone is ready, you can now be taken for the manufacture of the cork itself.
• Take the construction hairdryer and set the temperature of 120 degrees.

Important! The construction hairdryer will serve to heat the shape so that silicone does not frozen while filling and uniform distribution inside the form.

• After the molding warms up, with the help of a glue gun fill it with liquid silicone.

Important! Tin shape should be kept constantly over the jet of hot air.

• Once silicone is completely covered in the container, leave it to stick it.
• At the end of the pliers, remove the food edge and pull the plug.

Corks for bottles do it yourself

You can quickly and without tools to make an alternative to the corks for the bottle.

Method number 1.

To implement this version of the traffic jam you will need a plastic bottle with a lid, corresponding to the diameter of the bottle neck.

Production sequence:

1. Type half of the water in a plastic bottle, close the lid tightly.
2. Turn over and lower the bottle bottle into the neck.
3. The device tightly and reliably closes the glass container.

Important! For winemakers, it is necessary to drill through a hole in the lid and a donkey plastic "plugs", skip the hose and close the neck of the wine bottle.

Method number 2.

From old cork plugs from wine that are not suitable for the diameter of the neck, you can make new creative corks. To do this, you will need:

• Kitchen knife;
• Cork plug;
• PVA glue;
• Wooden coils with threads of different colors.

Preparation method.

Plastic bottles are a universal container that can be reused. To ensure such functionality, it should be supplemented with a plug that limits the leakage of the fluid.

Simple options

Make a plug for the bottle can be different ways. Consider the algorithm for obtaining silicone traffic jams:

1. Initially, we purchase starch, silicone sealant. You will also need a plastic glass, which in size should approach the diameter of the hole in the bottle.
2. It is initially mixed by ¾ packing of starch and silicone (with a full glass volume). It is important to carefully knead the "dough" to give it a homogeneous consistency.
3. When a mixture is ready, a plug is formed from it. It is placed in a cup. So that silicone does not stick, the container is also covered with starch. It is also important to make several holes in the bottom of the glass. This will allow you to remove excess air.
4. After that, the cork should dry about 4 hours. When it is ready, it is removed from the glass and is flattered using a knife. To get rid of the smell, the workpiece should initially hold in hot water, and then in the solution of cold water and soda. Then you need to carefully dry in the fresh air.

If you need a drain hole, then it can be done in a traffic jam using a small drill. If you wish, you can form a small spout that will be used to pour water.

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Wood is a unique material that holds moisture perfectly. Therefore, the plugs were previously done only from it. This process is quite simple and consists of several steps:

• The timing is selected a little more than the diameter of the neck.
• Then a small cone is formed from it. The easiest way to do is on the lathe. But if it is not, you can pull it out and a sharp knife. In the manufacture, it is important to constantly control its shape and approximately to the opening. The cork must be perfectly entering the gap, sealing it.
• For versatility, a small hole can also be made in the traffic jam, which allows you to pour liquid.

If you do not want to spend time, it is better to purchase a special design of plastic, which can be selected for different neck diameters.