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First off I wished I had Harold_V's resources when he built his filter press, since I do not came up with some ideas of my own to build a reasonably efficient filter.
My first choice is this arrangement, a center drum supported on ceramic bearings that has quadrillion holes drilled into the walls to permit the liquor to escape while the drum is spinning.
The smaller heavy wall plastic drum fits inside a larger heavy walled plastic pipe having a bottom press fit into place then having an O-ring to finalize the seal a bung to drain the liquor of course would be added for convenience.
The whole rig would be set into a bell crank similar to what you see on a cement mixer so that the filter could be tipped to empty the spent contents. Most of you have seen those large truck air filters that come in all sizes and lengths, I figure to purchase some long ones then cut them apart for the filter paper, line the inside of the small drum with it.
I pulled an old filter apart this afternoon and once you stretch out that accordion there's miles of filter paper making the cost negligible.
My second choice would be to turn that smaller heavy walled pipe into a cylinder with a piston with an O-Ring to complete the seal, then have my filter plate on the bottom using filter paper from the wine arts store. There is of course a number of ways to force the piston down forcing the liquor through the filter.
On another thought that same set up could be capped with no piston inside then using air pressure to force the liquor through the filter.
Running out of ideas here but here's the last of them and the least desirable, heavy walled plastic pipe with filter plat affixed to the bottom, press fit with an O-Ring to seal the rig, then affix a vibrator to the outside of the pipe to keep everything inside fluid. I'm not really wild on this one.
Anyone out there with a 4 axis cnc rig willing to drill some holes in a 10 inch diameter heavy walled plastic pipe.
Best Regards
Gill
My first choice is this arrangement, a center drum supported on ceramic bearings that has quadrillion holes drilled into the walls to permit the liquor to escape while the drum is spinning.
The smaller heavy wall plastic drum fits inside a larger heavy walled plastic pipe having a bottom press fit into place then having an O-ring to finalize the seal a bung to drain the liquor of course would be added for convenience.
The whole rig would be set into a bell crank similar to what you see on a cement mixer so that the filter could be tipped to empty the spent contents. Most of you have seen those large truck air filters that come in all sizes and lengths, I figure to purchase some long ones then cut them apart for the filter paper, line the inside of the small drum with it.
I pulled an old filter apart this afternoon and once you stretch out that accordion there's miles of filter paper making the cost negligible.
My second choice would be to turn that smaller heavy walled pipe into a cylinder with a piston with an O-Ring to complete the seal, then have my filter plate on the bottom using filter paper from the wine arts store. There is of course a number of ways to force the piston down forcing the liquor through the filter.
On another thought that same set up could be capped with no piston inside then using air pressure to force the liquor through the filter.
Running out of ideas here but here's the last of them and the least desirable, heavy walled plastic pipe with filter plat affixed to the bottom, press fit with an O-Ring to seal the rig, then affix a vibrator to the outside of the pipe to keep everything inside fluid. I'm not really wild on this one.
Anyone out there with a 4 axis cnc rig willing to drill some holes in a 10 inch diameter heavy walled plastic pipe.
Best Regards
Gill
