Juicer with your own hands: drawing, video, manufacturing tips
The question is, can be made ??juicer with his own hands, primarily of interest to owners of country and homestead plots, fruits and berries are harvested annually, which must be quickly reworked and saved. That fact adds even more relevance to this issue, what juices, obtained independently, much tastier and more useful than those, which are sold in stores.
To make such or similar screw press under force to any owner of a garden site
Today, buying a juicer of any capacity is not a big problem, but such equipment is not cheap. That is why it is advisable to make a juicer with your own hands, especially since the design of such devices is not very complex.
What is the principle of devices for squeezing juice
Before looking for answers to questions about that, how to make a juicer with your own hands, you need to understand the principle, which she works for. To get juice from fruits or berries, it is necessary to put pressure on them. According to their design and principle of operation of the juicer can be of the following types:
- mechanical devices;
- hydraulic;
- electrohydraulic;
- pneumatic.
The simplest in design are mechanical juicers, which are often made by home craftsmen with their own hands. The principle of operation of such devices, which are not characterized by high productivity, but quite suitable for household use, based on that, that the raw material is affected by the piston, the pressure on which is detected by a screw mechanism. Fruits and berries are loaded into a perforated basket, through the holes in the walls of which the finished juice flows into the storage tray.
The device of the screw press for juice extraction
The basket of screw presses can be made of stainless steel sheet or solid wood. Wooden baskets are drainage grates, consisting of two halves, connected by metal hoops. Screw presses of the above design can even be used to squeeze apple juice. In this case, the raw material is loaded into the basket of such a juicer in crushed form.
How to make a juicer with your own hands
As mentioned above, the simplest in design and, in accordance, mechanical juicers are easy to make. To make such a press for apples with your own hands, on which it will be possible to process also other fruit and berry raw materials, you will need the following supplies and tools:
- stainless steel sheet;
- channel or square metal pipe with a cross section of 40x40 and a wall thickness of at least 3 mm;
- pipe diameter 16 mm;
- barbell, on the surface of which the thread is applied;
- screw;
- board thickness 30 mm;
- welding device;
- Bulgarian and electric drill;
- hammer;
- hacksaw on metal.
Before you start making homemade apple juicer, it is desirable to find drawings or drawings of such a device on the Internet or draw them yourself. It will also be useful to watch a video on making a juicer, which shows such a process in all its details.
Options juicer
manufacturing procedure
If you decide to make a juicer for apples or other fruit and berry raw materials, start by making a perforated basket, in which the fruits will be loaded for squeezing. Stainless steel sheet is used for such a basket, on which it is necessary to pre-mark the location of future holes. After marking the holes are drilled, and then the jars with a drill of larger diameter, to make them conical. The purpose of these holes is, to ensure the leakage of juice from the basket after squeezing.
Stainless steel sheet blank with drilled holes
From a sheet of stainless steel with already drilled holes it is necessary to form the cylinder and to weld the formed joint. To juice, coming out through the holes in the walls of the perforated juicer basket, which were not sprayed and evenly drained into the storage tray, it is necessary to make a protective cover, for which stainless steel sheet is also used. For the manufacture of such a casing, the diameter of which must exceed the cross-sectional dimensions of the perforated basket, the stainless steel sheet is bent into a cylinder and the formed seam is also boiled.
Bending the workpiece into a cylinder
Once the perforated basket and casing of the juicer are ready, you can start making the frame. Focusing on drawings or drawings of their own, it is necessary to cut from a channel or a square pipe pieces of the necessary size, from which the frame design is welded. In order to ensure the stability of the resulting structure, legs are welded to its lower part, also made of a channel or a metal pipe of square section.
The lower part of the frame is made of profile pipe
A hole must be drilled in the upper part of the obtained press frame, in which the nut for the screw mechanism of the device is welded. Depending on that, you need a large or small juicer to squeeze the juice, the sizes of a perforated basket and a frame are chosen, which performs the function of the bearing element of the entire juicer.
The upper part of the frame with a screw nut
Like a piston, through which the screw mechanism will put pressure on the raw materials loaded into the basket, you can use a wooden board (from it cut out a circle of the corresponding diameter).
Final procedures for making a juicer of the proposed design - welding the handle to the screw rod, with which it can be rotated, and installing a basket and a protective cover on the storage tray.
The press is almost ready, it remains only to paint the frame
If the power and efficiency of a conventional screw press for juicing does not suit you, then you can make your own juicer, which will be actuated by a conventional mechanical or hydraulic jack. It should be borne in mind, that even the simplest spin presses, the drive device of which is a jack, allow to extract to 70% juice from the total mass of raw materials loaded into them.
And finally, a short video about the nuances of the manufacture and operation of the already assembled homemade juicer.
