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<p>[QUOTE="dgbjwc, post: 340413, member: 308"]I just had a successful experience as well. I had a glass perfume bottle with a stuck glass stopper. I had no luck loosening it so I put it aside until I could try some of the methods above. The stopper was jammed maybe 1/8" below the top of the neck. I started with the rubbing alcohol. I poured just a little bit trying to keep it in the stopper depression. I let it sit about a minute or so and tried to twist the top in one direction and the bottom in the other. Still stuck. I had a sink full of lukewarm soapy water so I put it sideways in the sink. Underwater I held the top with one thin sponge and the bottom with another thin sponge. I twisted in opposite directions again and it freed right up. </p><p><br /></p><p>At one time I knew who made it (contemporary German, I think) but the knowledge has mostly faded away.</p><p>Don</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]114448[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]114449[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dgbjwc, post: 340413, member: 308"]I just had a successful experience as well. I had a glass perfume bottle with a stuck glass stopper. I had no luck loosening it so I put it aside until I could try some of the methods above. The stopper was jammed maybe 1/8" below the top of the neck. I started with the rubbing alcohol. I poured just a little bit trying to keep it in the stopper depression. I let it sit about a minute or so and tried to twist the top in one direction and the bottom in the other. Still stuck. I had a sink full of lukewarm soapy water so I put it sideways in the sink. Underwater I held the top with one thin sponge and the bottom with another thin sponge. I twisted in opposite directions again and it freed right up. At one time I knew who made it (contemporary German, I think) but the knowledge has mostly faded away. Don [ATTACH=full]114448[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]114449[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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