extractor stand

Rabbitdog · May 14, 2008, 01:37:45 PM

Extraction fun begins soon. I'm tired of my "walking" extractor and have to make some improvements and still keep the machine portable. Please show pics if possible of any solutions.
thanks in advance!

Kathyp · May 14, 2008, 01:44:23 PM

good request. i have been thinking about that also.

jimmyo · May 14, 2008, 03:24:39 PM

ours walks all over. I even have a place to put my foot on it to keep it in the same room as the electric knife.
Jim

mark · May 14, 2008, 05:48:58 PM

chain it to something, floor, workbench, heavy table etc. with chain s hooks and turnbuckles or strap binders

jimmyo · May 14, 2008, 10:11:59 PM

I'm thinking about putting a seat on it and selling ride tickets... :-D

johnnybigfish · May 14, 2008, 10:16:23 PM

My extractor has problems getting around because theres usually 2 of us holding it down.....one of us cranks, and the other one holds tight. My extractors probelm is that it blows out honey cotton candy out the top!
your friend,
john

Rabbitdog · May 15, 2008, 01:32:55 PM

What word pictures !!! :-D

Now if we could just get some pics of solutions ...... ;)

Brian D. Bray · May 16, 2008, 01:41:23 AM

Quote from: Rabbitdog on May 15, 2008, 01:32:55 PM
What word pictures !!! :-D

Now if we could just get some pics of solutions ...... ;)

Dedicated beeks with a dedicate honey house cement theirs to the floor.

Rabbitdog · May 16, 2008, 08:06:09 PM

Well, I am a dedicated beek but just PWT (po white trash) and can't afford a dedicated honey house. :-P

Vetch · May 21, 2008, 10:37:58 AM

One thing that is relatively easy to fix when dealing with extractors, washing machines, and other centrifuges: level the machine. If the axis of spin isn't perpendicular to the Earth, it will walk, hop or worse. I have seen where a lab centrifuge broke loose and a part flew a few hundred feet.

The thing that is more difficult to fix: having a balanced load.

xC0000005 · May 29, 2008, 10:19:57 PM

I use a set of five gallong buckets filled with water - three of them. Once the extractor has 40-60lbs of honey in it it doesn't walk anymore.

rmhcattle · June 04, 2008, 08:41:52 AM

if you balance your load when putting in the frames and put rubber pads under the legs 90 are is fixed

Vetch · June 05, 2008, 12:36:31 PM

Just brainstorming, and wondered if a centrifuge could be made partially self-balancing. Maybe a cylinder on the inside of the frames, which has a solution that counter-balances things as it spins?

Came across this patent describing a self-balancing centrifuge:

"A centrifuge of the type used for a number of individual test samples in separate sample containers is dynamically balanced automatically by means of a counterbalancing mass contained in an annular chamber within the centrifuge wheel. The centrifuge wheel is mounted as an inverted pendulum about a fixed pivot and spring biased to the vertical position. The counterbalancing mass, which is at the same vertical level as the sample containers, automatically moves angularly to the counterbalancing position at speeds above the speed corresponding to the natural vibration frequency of the pendulum system." http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3692236.html