My wife was asking me about automatic bottling equipment and how much it would cost to make our packing a smoother process. My understanding is that those lines can cost 10s of thousands but I did some looking anyway.

I think I'm going to invest in a Automatic Filling Valve from Leader this year and that should help. I was looking at the capper on this four head filler and capper and was wondering if I could retro fit an old drill press or put some adapter on a dremel to tighten the caps. Any suggestions on what might work?

I'm wondering what folks do here to automate their packing process. Does anyone do any "large scale" packing? We do several large packs throughout the year - We pack what we need for farmers markets and online sales all at once, then at another time we pack bulk containers for restaurants and then a couple other times for some retail clients. We currently heat up the syrup, then one person fills the container while the other person caps the container. I'm thinking that the auto fill and rotary capper might help speed up that process. Any one do this differently?

Dave