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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio
I did use violence to open the bottle. I tried to wrap a towel around the base and hit the towel wrapped bottom on the wall so that the wine inside would force the cork out, all to no avail.
So, I don't know if this will ever work again or not, but I used pliers to bend the end of a sharp nail so the very bottom was kind of like a fish hook, then forced it through the middle of the cork until the hooked part was visible underneath the cork...the middle of the nail itself also bent a bit from the ordeal, but it made it through the cork, so that was cool. Then, I used my hands to pull up until the nail had penetrated the bottom of the cork. I then used the pliers again to grab the top of the nail and work the whole thing out.
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yeah that's one alternative and the whole towel hitting it against the wall thing sometimes work but I mean instead of using the wall, they say you should use the a boot or some sort of shoe.
I had that problem trying to open a bottle but I had no pliers. I only found out I had no pliers after I already had the nail in the cork and it was super hard to get it out. I tried using a wire hangar but that didn't work. So I ended up forcing the cork into the bottle by hitting the nail with a shoe to force it into the bottle. I was stuck with nail wine. I know I probably shouldn't have consumed the wine but I didn't care that there was a nail in the wine. I ended up pouring it over into another empty plastic bottle.