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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => EQUIPMENT USAGE, EXPERIMENTATION, HIVE PLANS, CONSTRUCTION TIPS AND TOOLS => Topic started by: Wombat2 on May 28, 2015, 11:44:15 pm
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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.
And a video of it working
https://youtu.be/u5bm7FmO12U (https://youtu.be/u5bm7FmO12U)
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That's a nice piece of work! More pictures?
Thanks for sharing,
Steve
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Nice. :wink: -Mike
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Can I borrow that this weekend? :grin: Nice. G
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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
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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
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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:
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.