Cider press II
Did some more work on my cider press this weekend. The car jack is mounted, a bottom plate with appropriate brackets is made, rails for controlling sideways slide (my mother had some left over) are mounted on the side, a collecting tray, some plexiglass plates and a piece of tube are acquired, bottles are cleaned, and appropriate pieces of cheesecloth are cut, overlocked and washed. Ran out of energy before I got to the actual pressing, though, mainly because once the apple processing starts, a lot of it needs to be done, and done all the way, lest it oxygenate and get icky-brown.
Lessons learned:
The rails need to be much further in to work, far enough to be well over the collector. My rails don't go far enough in. I'll do the first trial without sideways support and see how critical it is. In the long term, something self-adjusting would be nice.
Extra pieces of 2x4 are necessary for adjusting height. Acquired and ready.
Collectors aren't all that cheap. I got a plastic serving tray for DKK 125, a simple metal one would have been twice that.
Lessons learned:
The rails need to be much further in to work, far enough to be well over the collector. My rails don't go far enough in. I'll do the first trial without sideways support and see how critical it is. In the long term, something self-adjusting would be nice.
Extra pieces of 2x4 are necessary for adjusting height. Acquired and ready.
Collectors aren't all that cheap. I got a plastic serving tray for DKK 125, a simple metal one would have been twice that.