Been thinking the same thing. Somebody build it. Make it strong, cheap and effective. We'll maybe be interested in then marketing it.
Regards, Edward Beggs, BES, MSc http://www.biofuels.ca on 6/9/02 10:24 AM, Harmon Seaver at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 10:08:00AM -0700, Ken Provost wrote: >> >> No problem with the exercise, but the price is still pretty steep. I'm gonna >> try to build a piston, cage and pressure cone after the Bielenberg design >> (maybe even try to enlist his help...), and use a hydraulic jack to drive the >> piston. I bet a little kit with just those three tricky parts (you supply >> your >> own jack, lever, or whatever, and mounting brackets) could sell a couple >> a year to crazy experimenters :-) >> > > It would really be nice to find some sort of screw mechanism tho, that you > could get cheaply (maybe some mil-surplus gizmo?) and built a real screw > press. I was going on the same track before trying to figure out a way to make > pellets from biomass. The ram presses just don't make as good a pellet, don't > know how they'd do for oil, maybe it wouldn't make any difference. > Anyway, what I was last thinking was building a combo log splitter/pellet > press. Engine driven, of course, not just a handpump jack. I need the log > splitter anyway, so maybe just build it so you put different ends on the ram, > etc. One of those could be for oilseed. > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
