If you thought you had the skills to fabricate it yourself, it shouldn't cost too much. I don't know how much used seed presses cost. I live in a degenerated agriculture area. I don't know if anyone around here ever grew crops to extract the oil.
Appal Energy wrote: >Martin, > >That's the standard practice done here, or at least heating the fats and >oils to 140*F and let to settle. But it's the bottom 10% of the meats and >chips and fines mixed with oil that needs to have as much oil pressed out of >it as possible. > >Up to this point I was contemplating a 25 gallon capacity metal screen in >cylindrical form, reinforced with steel, running both horizontal and >vertical, throwing a thick bag filter inside the sleeve, filling with the >"slime" left over from every couple hundred gallons of oil, placing a >circular steel plate on top of the bag and applying slow but constant >pressure using a screw or hydraulic press. > >It could cost as much to fabricate as might a small refurbished oilseed >press, presuming that an oilseed press could do the job. At the moment an >oilseed press is not on my shopping list. > >Todd Swearingen > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 8:24 PM >Subject: Re: [biofuel] Master Puzzler for Biofuelers... > > > > -- --- Martin Klingensmith http://nnytech.net/ http://infoarchive.net/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/46VHAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
