Not one for half measures I decided to make my own 9 frame extractor. My nephew who is a welder of stainless steel made the spinner cage and I made the rest from scrape iron and a sheet of Colorbond.The self draining bottom was fashioned from an old satellite dish.
It is powered by a high torque low RPM drill designed for stirring paint and plaster mixes.
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And a video of it working
https://youtu.be/u5bm7FmO12U (https://youtu.be/u5bm7FmO12U)
That's a nice piece of work! More pictures?
Thanks for sharing,
Steve
Nice. :wink: -Mike
Can I borrow that this weekend? :grin: Nice. G
Nice job Wombat. I cannot tell but if your drain is pointing down with the drain in the center of the bottom, it will probably work better than my commercial unit.
Ji9
Quote from: sawdstmakr on June 22, 2015, 05:53:58 AM
Nice job Wombat. I cannot tell but if your drain is pointing down with the drain in the center of the bottom, it will probably work better than my commercial unit.
Ji9
I made the bottom out of an old satelite dish ( which turned out to elipitcal - not round - grrr) and yes the tap is in the middle and is self draining. I built it high enough off the floor to get a 30 kg bucket with a double seive on it but the first use the flow out was faster than the seive could cope so now I run straight into the bucket and seive later
That's a beauty! Some lucky grandkid is probably gonna get to pass that down to another - looks like it's build to last a few lifetimes :cool:
Quote from: Wombat2 on May 28, 2015, 11:44:15 PM
Not one for half measures I decided to make my own 9 frame extractor. My nephew who is a welder of stainless steel made the spinner cage and I made the rest from scrape iron and a sheet of Colorbond.The self draining bottom was fashioned from an old satellite dish.
It is powered by a high torque low RPM drill designed for stirring paint and plaster mixes.
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And a video of it working
https://youtu.be/u5bm7FmO12U (https://youtu.be/u5bm7FmO12U)
This is really nice. I looked on your youtube channel and could not find any more on this.
A center drain is good for cleaning but a side port would give you some settling of debris making straining easier and access to the port easier.
Wombat, how did this work out for you? How did the extractor perform when loaded? Are you still using it? Any problems or things you might do differently? Thanks.