Talk:Stopper (plug)

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Firejuggler86 in topic Merge

Merge

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This should be merged with Bung, it is the exact same thing. Mrgoogfan (talk) 10:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

A bung is specific to closing a bunghole in a barrel. A stopper can be used on a variety of containers and laboratory equipment. No merge. Rlsheehan (talk) 15:07, 2 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
A "stopper" is just an unthreadded bung. Articles merged for clarity of this project. -- Davodd (talk) 15:31, 10 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
A plug is to keep liquid from flowing down a hole. A bung is to keep liquid from spilling out of a container. I think they should remain as separate articles. Kaldari (talk) 01:20, 25 March 2012 (UTC)Reply
Neither of the separate articles were about 'plugs' in the sense you describe, though. The two articles, stopper and bung, were each little more than stubs. The merger, therefore, I think was justified. HOWEVER, I also think the editor that performed the merge picked the wrong title: the objection raised here, that was then ignored, was that a bung describes a SPECIFIC KIND of stopper. Therefore, I have moved the entire article back to stopper, and clarified in the article for what applications is bung used Firejuggler86 (talk) 04:14, 12 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

History

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"Before cork came into common use, wine bottles were sealed with custom ground glass stoppers," Doesn't everyone know how amphorae were sealed? A moment's reflection on the expense would halt this suggestion. How do statements like this get into Wikipedia? --Wetman 11:00, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • removed all the wine stuff - dup of stuff at main cork entry. I think this is candidate for moving to Wiktionary really.

GaylordBumBum 22:52, 4 March 2007 (UTC)Any chance of a picture of a ground-glass stopper? Does anyone know where to find one?Reply

Nothing at the commons:, far as I see. Femto 13:30, 5 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Can this be fixed?

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No point explaining really, but the article template does call for a talk page comment: "...rubber bungs are rarely used now... In chemistry, bungs are usually made of hardened rubber...". If I were a chemist, I'd fix it. --Lo2u (TC) 22:14, 20 December 2013 (UTC)Reply