I bought a 30 ml bottle of juice Maniac "Waterknockers" and its in a regular 30 ml bottle with child safety that says to "depress and turn clockwise" and I've tried everything and its not opening I tried pliers and the whole 9 yards. It looks like the white part that actually seals it has detached from the black cap that you push down on and now the black cap just spins freely and the white part and dropper don't move. Is there anything i can do about this that doesnt involve crazy .... like sawing through the cap!!!
Bottle Won't Open!!!
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Try a blow dryer. With the dryer lower than the bottle, and only putting heat (a (little) bit at a time) at the top of the bottle, not on the content part. sparkky1's idea is good too.
Haha, righty tighty, lefty loosey.
Seriously, if you bought it at a B&M, take it back for an exchange.
The only other way, I can think of, is to poke a hole in the side near the top with a sharp screwdriver (Philips).
If you have another container to put it in, you could cut off the black part and just diretly uncrew the white inside part
If the bottle is LDPE (soft plastic) and you have a sharp-pointed syringe, you can just suck all the liquid out of that faulty bottle into another. I've had to do that with a few bottles from sweet-vapes.
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i tried both ways haha and its a glass bottle so i dont see how i can poke a hole, unless you mean in the dropper?
Nah, I just meant those cheapie soft plastic bottles -- they're cheap so sometimes the blow-molding is faulty on the threads -- I used to do QC for plastic bottles in a blow-molding plant, and I know how much time and effort goes into those bottles -- not much!!!
Don't know what sort of tools you have access to, but there's a type of wrench that can be "locked" in place on a cap, can't remember the name of the tool, which gives you a lot more leverage for whatever you need to do to the cap.
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Sounds like the teeth that lock the inner cap and outer cap together are stripped. What you need to do is create at least a temporary bond between the two so you can unscrew the inner cap. You could try jabbing something thin and sharp between the two, such as toothpicks. Another approach might be carefully applying some dabs of crazy glue between the two caps. Worse comes to worse, get a syringe and pierce the rubber bulb to suck the juice out from within the dropper.
I tried both ways and its clockwise, even if it was counter the problem is that the cap is detached from the rest of it.
I see. Forget I said anything about poking a hole.nope... its glass
You're probably gonna need to use a pliers to get the outer cap off and then the inner cap. Then the problem is where to put the juice. Do you have any have any empty bottles around?
Yea I do but even pliers isnt really working i might break the tip of the glass and pour it our and then filter any shards of glass out.... Desperate times call for desperate measure
I just looked at one of my glass bottle caps. I looks like you might be able to get a small screwdriver in between the outer and inner caps and pry it up. Be careful, it's a good way to skewer your finger or hand.
Lol thanks everyone for suggesting stuff, i ended up going at it with a knife and cut the black part open.
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