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shadylane wrote: Thu Nov 24, 2022 1:21 pm
Steve Broady wrote: Mon Nov 14, 2022 1:59 pm Hanging out with you folks can get expensive! I just placed a couple orders totally over $600, which is basically all of my hobby budget for quite some time,
I see the problem, Ya need a bigger budget.
You can't be a proper homedistiller until all the money is spent.
And your too poor to afford store bought liquor. :lol:
Reminds me of Greggns’ signature-
“I drank fifty pounds of feed-store corn
‘till my clothes were ratty and torn”
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Ran out if Gin this week … in-fact no neutral left either . The 200l. of Shadyshine was taking way too long to ferment . So had to buy a bottle . :esurprised:
Ouch …. 1litre bottle of Gordons. $65 AUD …..that hurt .

Ten years in the hobby, I’m pretty well set up and it only costs me gas and ingredient's .

But yeah , I remember starting out . Boy , it all started to add up . Just when I thought I had it all sorted , I’d get the urge to try something new and …… more spending . :shh:

All I need to spend more on these days is organising my time better .
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Yummyrum wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 3:04 am I’d get the urge to try something new and …… more spending . :shh:

All I need to spend more on these days is organising my time better .
Ain't that the truth! My wife is about finally over my distilling spending, and right when I'm trying to obtain a screw press...
Darn those things are pricey
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RockinRockies wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 6:30 am
Ain't that the truth! My wife is about finally over my distilling spending, and right when I'm trying to obtain a screw press...
Darn those things are pricey
Pricey yes, but easily built.
Us an automotive screw jack.
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shadylane wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 2:48 pm
RockinRockies wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 6:30 am
Ain't that the truth! My wife is about finally over my distilling spending, and right when I'm trying to obtain a screw press...
Darn those things are pricey
Pricey yes, but easily built.
Us an automotive screw jack.
Pardon, I should have clarified that I want a dewatering screw press
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RockinRockies wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 4:57 pm
Pardon, I should have clarified that I want a dewatering screw press
Sorry I had a brain fart. :lol:

Somebody needs to build a small DIY screw press.
It would make a great project. :thumbup:
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I'd rather have an affordable centrifuge to "dewater" grains.
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shadylane wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 5:34 pm
RockinRockies wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 4:57 pm
Pardon, I should have clarified that I want a dewatering screw press
Sorry I had a brain fart. :lol:

Somebody needs to build a small DIY screw press.
It would make a great project. :thumbup:
Think Setsumi built one . Not sure where it is .
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When it comes to buying what I want, I refer to the idiom "SKIN"....

Spend
Kids'
Inheritance
NOW
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Grandad7 wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 11:12 pm When it comes to buying what I want, I refer to the idiom "SKIN"....

Spend
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NOW
Hahaha! So true!
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NorthWoodsAb wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 7:30 pm I'd rather have an affordable centrifuge to "dewater" grains.
We were trying to design one with a washing machine motor but it looked too dangerous and I didn't think that that would have the same abilities to extract the liquid like the screw presses that I'm investigating. I found some oil presses from Alibaba for about 1700 but I don't know what that would look like if it would do the same job
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