Do any of you have any experience with, or knowledge of, the use of a manual ram press for extracting oil from seeds, nuts, etc.? I see a reference on webconix for building your own, but Steve's been down awhile now and I don't know when he's coming back. I've been researching the Bielenberg ram press used in Africa for a decade or more, and its cousin, optimized for sunflower seeds (unshelled!), called the "mafuta mali". I'd like to get one, or plans for one, to try with a load of field mustard that I will be acquiring soon (Brassica rapa, AKA turnip).
Seems like the most complicated part is a thing called the "cage" -- a piece of steel "tubing" made of bars shimmed slightly apart and welded together to form a slotted cylinder -- I can imagine welding up such a thing in my garage, but I'd also be happy to pay for it already perfected and fabricated. Any leads? Thx, -K (BTW -- thanks to Ed Beggs, Neoteric, and Martin Fisher, ApproTEC, for all their help so far). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/DlIU9C/4m7CAA/Ey.GAA/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/
