Thanks for the ideas. I had thought about gromets but we found another solution before we tried this. Check out my latest article on the bar monkey for the details and more pics. Glad you like it!

I want to help if you have not worked out your bottle cap seal yet, I have a suggestion:

If you have the space drill the holes just a little bigger in the cap, here’s why:

Use a thin wall softer rubber tubing (not hard plastic tubing) just inside the new larger hole. I’m thinking maybe 1.5″ long of this soft tube. Have just a little stick out the top and most of it inside. Then, Jam your hard plastic tubing in from the bottom (to reach the bottom of the bottle) and use a plastic hose connector jammed in from the top side to force a seal.

OR jam the hard plastic all the way through and make the soft rubber act as a gromet. There’s an idea just buy a rubber gromet. THey may even have a dual port gromet.

Good luck, and keep sweating for great entertainment value!
Dave

Hello.
1st off love your site. But any ways… I was looking at the posts
about Alan’s bar monkey and i wanted to know if you could give me his
contact info. I tried his website but it seems like it is down. The
reason I want to contact him is because i am in the process of
building my self a bar monkey and need some help. I wanted to know if
he would distribute his software. Source or complied. I have tried
barmonkey.net but nobody there is helping me.

Thanks,
Bryan

I replied:
Bryan, glad you like the site. I have forwarded your info on to Alan and asked him to contact you about what he would be willing to share. I am also long overdue on posting more information on the bar monkey. I guess it’s about time.

We certainly learned a lot working on this project. Especially about gluing polyethylene tubing for caps (we went through at least 5 revisions before we got to one that works.) We also found barmonkey.net fairly sparse for info and wound up searching everywhere else, and still improvising a lot.

Good luck, and don’t hesitate to email me if you have any specific questions. I’ll try to get more info up about our process soon.

Jon

-C, perhaps a little to big of a fan of gorilla glue…