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Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 14 7:05 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Well I reckon the press I bought was a lemon: I could not get the yield up over about 15% no matter what I did.

So I tried modifying the press: that sort of worked: I got a much improved yield, but the modifications could not take the strain. The press is at the engineer's now...

But that still leaves me a problem: the improved yield has also given me much finer particulates in the oil: it comes out a mucky grey colour rather than a nice golden yellow.

I've left it to settle for a few weeks with minimal effect, and I've put it through a 1 micron filter and it still looks mucky.

I've not (yet) found a sensible supplier of filters less than 1 micron...

Any ideas?

https://forum.downsizer.net/viewtopic.php?p=1364691#1364691

One micron is huge in some places.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 14 7:20 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

Any ideas?

https://forum.downsizer.net/viewtopic.php?p=1364691#1364691

One micron is huge in some places.

Thanks. I did look for that thread earlier... Ok, not very hard.

Can't actually open that site on this phone though. I'll look at it later.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 14 12:14 am Post subject:

Lloyd wrote:

I'd be very interested to see some pictures of the process.

Ok, this is the business end of the press, just after a session of pressing:

And this is it without the barrel:

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 14 6:24 pm Post subject:
looks a serious bit of hardware.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 14 6:58 pm Post subject:

Lloyd wrote:

looks a serious bit of hardware.

Fairly serious... be nice if it worked.

I suppose that's the problem with buying off some dodgy bloke you found on eBay.

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