Scrap heap challenge fruit press

[W.olly]

Ok here we go, being a tight git still and to tight to buy evena cheap fruit press for £38 i have rumaged around the garden and shed and found this lot.


8 foot length 50mm x 50mm x 3mm SHS
length of steel pipe 720mm x 320mm x 8mm
Scissor jack
A 10l ally stew pot that i used to sterilise home brew bit n bobs
and some 18mm plywood

I always knew the large steel tube would come in, it

was to be for a stove but now its a fruit press.

So i will start this soon,maybe tomorrow as i need it for when i get back off my jollys in a few weeks and i have loads of apples and pears to get through. Subject to friends helping out in exchange for a few bottles.

I will be getting a bigger maybe 15l SS stew pot it if works so the ally one is a practice pot.


Ooo looking forward to this as never done real home brew before just TC and kits.

Watch this space

Wayne

 

[Shedendman]

Moonshine?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Moonshine?

Only if you sell it......?

 

[W.olly]

Moonshine?

The last lot i did last years was i reckon, i was recked for months lol. Got 90l from Tesco when they priced it wrong at 12p litre lol, trolley fulls.

Only if you sell it......?

Now i cant do that as its not allowed

 

[Anguz]

Won't the steel taint the taste?

 

[W.olly]

Won't the steel taint the taste?

There will be no contact with the steel

 

[Shedendman]

Could we be seeing a Xmas WOLLY warmer brew?

 

[W.olly]

Could we be seeing a Xmas WOLLY warmer brew?

Ill try to save some

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Ill try to save some

Aye....right

 

[Shedendman]

If not,it'll be the best paint stripper this site has come to known

 

[W.olly]

Small update as had a lot on today

I found a baking tray for the drip tray and a perfic fit. this will be sat on 18mm ply base. the old ally inner stew pot is 2cm smaller in diam, so a nice fit and i have found a few 16l that will fit alos and will get one soon.

sods law i sold my sandblaster now

 

[W.olly]

As it peed it down today i couldnt get any more of the boat done so i got a little more done on this.

Top supports done and ply base , i made it this way so if i want i can fit a Trapezoidal Screw or powered hyd ram, which i would like to do

Excuse the welds but they will hold i reckon.still though i will tidy them up and a quick run over again as i run out of rods

Ah yes, i will be using the cake tin to get a new drip tray/ base when i get a more resin to make a GRP one, i ran out of darn resin aswell.

 

[Anguz]

Might have a suitable air ram for that, what strike you looking for ?

 

[W.olly]

Might have a suitable air ram for that, what strike you looking for ?

Not a clue what a strike is, never got in hyd`s so dont know anything. All i know is the other home fruit presses use scissor jacks or bottle jacks on a fot print of around 300mm square.

I have a 50l 3hp compressor though.

 

[Anguz]

Meant stroke... I hate spell check!

Will have a look this week

 

[W.olly]

Well here we have it, the finished fruit press. I cant do anything normal so i made it Pneumatic with the help f my compressor and a new windy gun, my old one has rusted to one solid block due not being looked after so a good excuse to get a new one.

The Jack is from a Peugeot or Citroen van, these give 2.4T and a much higher lift, or in this case drop to the bottom of the pot.

I say it is finished as i want anew press pot and will get one before this weekend i hope so i cant start pressing. Much the same but a Stainless steel one.
The drip tray or what ever you call it is made from GRP and sits in 18mm ply.

So this weekend will see if it works or not. cant see why not.