Re: encapsulating device/machine?

[Guest guest]

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I'd been wanting for some time to ask if someone had both types and could

compare the two, so i'm glad you

posted about this.

Given that the Cap 'n Quick (which i have) does so many more caps at a time,

what exactly is it about the other one that makes it so much more preferable to

you? I'm not encapsulating nearly as much as i used

to since i went to a loose powder method, but i still

make up a fair amount of other stuff and will consider buying a Capsule Machine

if it's really that much easier.

Hollis

girl_mark_fire

Sun Feb 3, 2008 12:59 pm (PST)

I also got my Capsule Machine from Wonderlabs.com. I have had both the Capsule

Machine and the CapMQuick and used to encapsulate a LOT of stuff, and I

wholeheartedly prefer the Capsule Machine- there's an

enormous difference in ease of use even though it sounds like it does fewer 'at

a time' than the CapMQuick. For some reason I see the CapMQuick at the health

food stores more often than the Capsule Machine.

[Guest guest]

The difference is that it's easier to load the upper halves onto the

lower halves in the Capsule Machine. In the Capsule Machine, you load

the upper halves into a guide, then press the two halves of the

machine together- which then presses the upper capsule halves onto the

lower halves, and ejecting the completed capsules is easier with this

machine than with the CapMQuick.

With the CapMQuick you have to manually push every one of the upper

halves onto the filled lower halves for each individual capsule, then

extract them one at a time by hand. The 'capping' of each individual

capsule adds up to a lot more work- it's easier to get them in to the

Capsule Machine's upper guide plate (or whatever they call those

parts) rather than aiming them individually onto each of the wobbly

full capsules which you have to do with the CapMQuick.

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> ,

>

> I'd been wanting for some time to ask if someone had both types and

could compare the two, so i'm glad you

> posted about this.

>

> Given that the Cap 'n Quick (which i have) does so many more caps at

a time, what exactly is it about the other one that makes it so much

more preferable to you? I'm not encapsulating nearly as much as i used

> to since i went to a loose powder method, but i still

> make up a fair amount of other stuff and will consider buying a

Capsule Machine if it's really that much easier.

>

> Hollis

>

>

> girl_mark_fire

> Sun Feb 3, 2008 12:59 pm (PST)

>

> I also got my Capsule Machine from Wonderlabs.com. I have had both

the Capsule Machine and the CapMQuick and used to encapsulate a LOT of

stuff, and I wholeheartedly prefer the Capsule Machine- there's an

> enormous difference in ease of use even though it sounds like it

does fewer 'at a time' than the CapMQuick. For some reason I see the

CapMQuick at the health food stores more often than the Capsule Machine.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

,

Thanks for spelling out the differences. I'm pretty

speedy with the capping part, but it IS a pain, so

i may just buy the Capsule Machine and give it a whirl.

Hollis

The difference is that it's easier to load the upper halves onto thelower halves

in the Capsule Machine.