For lovers apple juice from apples and berries, I can offer a home-made juicer that is easy to manufacture and does not require significant investments. It is made from an old automatic washing machine.
Factory juicers are characterized by low productivity and low reliability, since they contain a lot of plastic assemblies and parts. On my homemade one, a bucket of apples is processed in 7 - 10 minutes.
To make it, we will need from the washing machine basically a drum and its casing, an apple press. They can be taken from any used horizontal loading washing machine. It is not a problem to get such a car nowadays, since the models change every 2-3 years.
We thoroughly clean all parts from powder and scale. We will polish all surfaces with fine sandpaper to a shine. Let's inspect the available holes. We need to leave only one hole in the drum casing, at the bottom - for the juice to drain. All other holes are sealed with a thin rubber band, clamping it with bolted stainless steel plates. If possible, it is better to take all bolts and nuts made of brass or stainless steel. In my case, to big hole a tube with a corrugated hose from a siphon for a kitchen sink came up in diameter.
We make a grater and a grater pad. We cut a circle with a diameter of 220 mm from a "stainless steel" 2 mm thick with a grinder or on a machine - for a grater. From the same steel 0.5 mm thick, cut out a second circle with a diameter of 220 mm for metal with scissors: this will be a gasket. It is needed to ensure rigidity so that the grater does not bend. The gasket is attached through three brass posts to the bottom of the drum, and the grater is attached to it with five M5 screws. We cut the thread directly into the gasket.
The grater is made as follows. Having drilled holes with a diameter of 5 mm, we mark out with a step of 10 mm along the entire diameter. We divide the circle into 14-20 sectors. We fasten the workpiece with screws to plywood with a thickness of 10 - 16 mm in holes with a diameter of 5 mm. We fill the cutting teeth according to the marking with a punch with a round or square working profile. The screws and spacer prevent the grater from bending and shifting. All parts should be marked and drilled as precisely as possible so that the grater is exactly in the center of the drum.
The drum has holes with a diameter of 3-4 mm, so we are finalizing it. As a rule, the drum has three stiffening ribs inside. We take a fine mesh made of "stainless steel" with a cell of 1x1 mm, make three blanks according to the size of the drum sections (if there are no stiffeners, then we make the mesh in one piece). At the top of the mesh, add 10 mm each for the bend, performed under the ruler, tapping with a hammer - the edges are smooth and injury-safe. Using an awl and a pistol with blind rivets, we fix the mesh inside the drum. The number of rivets is arbitrary so that the mesh fits snugly against the drum surface and does not come off during rotation.
From a piece of polyethylene pipe with an inner diameter of 100 mm and a wall thickness of 5 - 6 mm, we make a bunker for loading apples. To secure the pipe, we need four corners made of aluminum alloy. We fix the pipe with an offset from the center so that its edge is on the edge of the grater.
The pipe with corners is attached to the drum casing with 4 MB bolts, and the bolts must be inserted from the inside of the casing before assembly and clamped with nuts from the outside. Using washers under the corners, we adjust the gap between the pipe and the grater: it depends on what the degree of crushing of apples will be. Above, the corners are attached with lambs for quick disassembly and assembly.
We make a pusher for apples from a birch shank for a shovel. On its end we attach a circle of plywood with a diameter of 90 mm, in the upper part we put a limiter so that the pusher cannot go down to the grater.
After we have prepared all the parts, we assemble the drum with the casing and bracket. We check the bearings and the oil seal and replace if necessary. The pulley will have to be altered to fit your size and V-belt.
I took the engine with a power of 1.1 kW at 3000 rpm. The drum is driven by a belt drive at 1500 rpm. It is more dangerous due to vibration, and less - it will be bad for the juice to come off during squeezing.
We will weld the base frame from the corner or adapt some ready-made one. We attach to it a bracket with a drum casing through rubber vibration damping washers. Cut out a lid from thick polyethylene or rubber - a circle along the diameter of the drum casing with a hole for the apple loading pipe. The lid is necessary not only to protect against splashing juice: it will also protect against the rotating drum.
All fasteners must be securely clamped and the electrical part assembled with good insulation to prevent electric shock. Before assembling, the parts of the container are thoroughly washed with dish soap and rinsed. All components must be made of environmentally friendly materials, not corroded and not emit harmful substances into the juice.
After assembly and adjustment, we carry out a test run. An empty drum should rotate without beating or abnormal noise. We cook apples, wash them thoroughly, select rotten and wormy ones. Good apples don't need to be cut. The core and bones are not a hindrance to our juicer. We put a bucket under the drain tube. Throw in apples 1 - 2 pcs. into the bunker and press the pusher against the grater. With a uniform cast, approximately a bucket of apples is crushed until the vibration starts. The centrifugal force presses the cake evenly around the circumference of the net. If a slight vibration starts, we stop the injection and let it work for spinning until the moment when the juice from the tube stops flowing.
We turn off the engine and wait for a complete stop. We clean the cake from the drum mesh with a plastic plate or a children's sandbox spatula.
After finishing work, thoroughly rinse the mesh and all parts with a strong jet of water.
For long-term storage, we separate the drum casing from the bracket, remove the mesh for more thorough cleaning and rinsing.
Dried cake is a good vitamin supplement for chickens and goats in winter.
E. YABLONSKY, Bobruisk, Belarus
Hot summer and the first days of autumn delight us with the fragrant aroma of ripe fruits. The piquant taste of grapes and an apple charge of vitamins, the unique taste of pears and healthy tomato juice - the table at this time of the year is filled with a lot of fruits and vegetables.
To diversify the menu and regularly delight yourself with a refreshing fresh juice, you can make a juicer at home. Such an invention is an alternative to bulky, loud and expensive devices.
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To make a homemade centrifugal juicer, we need an old washing machine (always with a working centrifuge).
The resulting semi-automatic device will perform a number of tasks:
A prerequisite for the selected washing machine model is the available activator at the bottom of the tank. Old samples that have serviceable parts are also suitable for use.
You should know: actively developing the topic of "homemade products" in the press began in the early 90s. The engineer Kotenev and the inventor Maslov were among the first to propose the idea of installing and starting up the device (“Modelist-Constructor” magazine).
To facilitate your work, first of all, you need to draw detailed drawings: draw up a detailed layout of the future juicer. Then all the tools should be prepared.
In the process of work, we need the following elements:
The selected elements should be cleaned from regular exposure to powder - rust and scale. To do this, with fine sandpaper, it is necessary to polish all surfaces to a shine.
Note: there should be only two holes in the structure: for laying raw materials and draining the juice. Other voids and holes need to be sealed with rubber pads.
The next steps are to make a float and gasket. To do this, we need a cutting tool, for example, a grinder. It is better to cut the gasket out of stainless steel to increase the durability of the entire device.
To make a grater, you will need to work out technical drawings and perform a number of simple steps:
Any wooden handle can be used to make a pusher for tomatoes and other fruits. Be sure to place a stopper to prevent the device from sagging or sinking to the grater.
To make a high-performance squeezer, you will definitely need a powerful motor. It is important to secure all parts well and insulate electrical parts.
Remember: be sure to flush before starting detergent all details. Components must be made of proven materials and prevent oxidation, corrosion and the ingress of harmful substances into the juice.
Before starting to actively use the juicer in the country or city kitchen, it is imperative to make a test run. When the drum rotates, pay attention to extraneous noises, knocks and beats. Any extra sound indicates an imperfect design.
Benefits of the initial launch:
For the first production launch, you need to carefully prepare and sort the raw materials. Dense and strong parts, such as the core of apples or pear seeds, do not need to be removed, as this is not a hindrance to work.
We substitute a container under the tube, put the fruits in the bunker, press them against the wall with a pusher. It is necessary to squeeze the juice before the onset of vibrational sensations. If a slight vibration appears, stop casting and let the device spin. After the end of the session, it is imperative to immediately disassemble the device and rinse all parts.
The main advantages of this type are:
To improve the design, you can use plastic bottles... We take a container and cut off its bottom at a distance of 10-15 cm from the bottom edge. Then we insert a small bottle into the resulting hole, having previously made small holes in it. We unscrew the plug and you can get to work. This option is suitable only for irregular squeezing of juice for one person Leave a message and your contacts in the comments - we will contact you and together we will make the publication better!
A man must be handy. The village knew. There was no concept of doing it yourself. It is not customary to do anything else, by and large. The Krivoruks were reproached: they did not grow from the right place.
The question of how to make a juicer for apples was not asked, the solution was found long ago. Was hammered, using boards, a long trough. As for feeding pigs. The inside is rectangular. The apples were cut, throwing out worm-like places, the cores, cuttings were removed (which served as a source of the increased content of bacteria fermenting the juice). The resulting pulp was poured into a trough and crushed.
In order to prepare apples for falling asleep in the juicer, a special spatula was made. We believe that in the absence of iron, you will make a sharp tool out of wood; nowadays it is much easier to find a blade like a sapper's. Equipped with a rectangular bayonet, exactly suitable size the width of the trough (it is more correct to make it according to the dimensions of the purchased blade). Holding on to the shaft, the winemaker is called upon to grind the apple pulp as much as possible. Then the mash was neatly packed with gauze, transferred to a press-type juicer.
For example, a tub with sheer walls. Corresponding to the section, a special piston was manufactured. The worm mechanism completed the device of the home-made juicer, squeezed the pulp with terrible force. A hole was cut in the bottom of the tub, near the base. Ready ale was removed from a homemade juicer.
The gauze had to be put inside the tub, the container for collecting the product was substituted, the piston was wound inside, the process began. If there was no worm mechanism, the homemade juicer was supplemented with a couple of weighty boulders, the owner pressed on top with his hands. The juice began to drain abundantly.
Why is this modern man? Still want to make your own juicer instead of buying it from Vladimir from Togliatti, who gets a bucket of clear apple cider in 20 minutes? Feed dry cake in winter to the bird ... Vitamins, iron. We consider the review as informational and entertaining. We do not urge you to repeat it.
Below is a recipe for a chat made by specialists of a special laboratory for the Special Correspondent program. The process is so addictive that it overshadows the description of making a homemade juicer. Bormotukha took the silver medal in Sochi.
If the juice of unsuccessfully rolled cans fermented, housewives advise:
We suggest, finally, to start creating a chat in order to avoid questions about why a home-made juicer was made with diligence. Not to compete with Vladimir from Togliatti? In order for the juice to ferment better, it must find a warm place, add sugar (feed the bacteria). If you made cider, the flesh of a trough will do, since the task is to win a medal, let's continue. Three or four days later, the next step.
Pour the fermented juice of a homemade juicer into a large container. The volume overlap is about two times. Stock up for future use:
4 liters of fermented product through the efforts of a home-made juicer, add 100 grams of pure alcohol, a liter of imported cheap wine. Alcohol will give a degree, wine - a bouquet. After all, we do wine, after all!
Gives sourness to juice lemon acid... One package is enough to make the full 5 with a little available liters. Two bubbles of glycerin are added to prevent the components from reacting with each other. The contents are poured in, the container is shaken, stirring. A few tablespoons baking soda added to prevent further fermentation. Otherwise, the wine (the mumble of a homemade juicer) will simply rip apart the filled bottles.
Journalists posting beautiful girl, provided the exhibition stand with a chatterbox, managed to get a silver medal, numerous positive responses from visitors to the exhibition.
Before you make a juicer, think it over. Dirt, wasps, unsanitary conditions. Homemade juicers are placed in the garden, on the balcony, the conditions are foreign to ideal. Take the trouble to strictly maintain cleanliness. Has the desire been preserved? Let's discuss how to make a homemade juicer by raking the washing machine.
Are you ready to explore the impressive design, where the washing machine centrifuge rotates the cake, squeezing out the juice? Forced to upset. The spin mode provides 1800 rpm, it will not be enough to milk the juice of ordinary apples. Rotary juicers work 3 - 15 times faster. The danger of rotating the drum of an opened washing machine simply overshadows the hypothetical benefit of a person who decides to create a homemade design.
In the washing mode, the drum of the machine slowly rotates, domestic kulibins have long noticed. Speed is powerless to provide with ordinary motors, devoid of special gearboxes. Here, consider a ready-made juicer. The device will replace the trough, sharp blade. It is intended to grind the pulp of the fruit.
There is a belt reducer. The motor pulley is much smaller than the drum pulley diameter. The turnover of the latter is significantly reduced. It remains to equip the drum pulley with a chopping device, a conventional meat grinder. Other designs are allowed, helping to make apples a cake for laying a press-type juicer.
Gauze filled with apple pulp can be shifted with planks by increasing the pressure applied.
There is a radical solution. Soviet activator washing machine with a spin compartment. The design can turn into a homemade juicer. We use the vertical drum without modification, if the pulp is chopped beforehand. Avoid putting too much - you will break the appliance.
For experienced kulibins, it is recommended to make a round grater, taking 1 mm steel along the bottom diameter. Reinforce the gizmo with several aluminum rivets (the holes look upward with notches); a steel pipe with a diameter less than (20 mm) of the neck of the vertical drum is used to feed the apples inside. Should not reach the bottom by 5 mm, otherwise it will cling to the grater.
Scheme of work:
Eyewitnesses say: with the help of the construction, we will get up to 50 liters of juice per hour. It is not considered a shock indicator, enough for a homemade juicer. If you have a desire to learn something new, write, we will post the review "Homemade grape juicer". Previously, girls trampled fruit with their feet, today it is considered unaesthetic.
Thinking about purchasing a juicer? You can make a juicer from a washing machine with your own hands - we will tell you how to do it. You will get a device for processing fruits and vegetables into homemade juices almost free of charge, and you will also find use for an old washing machine.
If you have an old, unnecessary washing machine with a working centrifuge, consider that you have found a use for it.
The essence of the work of a standard juicer is that fruits and vegetables are thrown into a special hole. It should be wide enough for a whole apple, pear and other fruit. Then the fruit goes into a centrifuge, at the bottom of which there is a grater. After crushing, the juice is squeezed out.
The advantages of the washer as a juice squeezer is that the volume of its drum is larger than conventional appliances. And if you use an engine that produces 1500 rpm, then you can quickly and efficiently chop the fruit and get 10-20 liters of juice per hour.
You can make a juicer yourself from any automatic washing machine - with a front or vertical loading... The main thing is to have a belt drive, since a direct drive model will not work.
If you have a front-loading washer, you will have to put it on your back, with the hatch up.
First remove all parts that are no longer needed from the machine body: pump, pressure switch, suction valve, drain filter and control panel.
Prepared drawings and drawings will help to facilitate the work. So you can consistently perform all the actions, referring to the diagram.
Prepare the necessary parts:
You will also need tools:
Before you put the machine down, prepare the support blocks on which it will be fixed.
How to do it:
To create a juicer at home, it is advisable to take a stainless steel drum. However, a plastic drum will work as well.
Put the tank back into the body, replace the sealing rubber and shock springs.
Since you will need most of the parts from the washer to make the juicer yourself, it will cost you almost free. But in order for the drum to become a full-fledged chopper for apples and other fruits, it needs to be modified. 
Make a grater. The fact is that the holes located on the surface of the drum are too large. They will mash the fruit rather than juice. Therefore, take the prepared strips of mesh, set them in a circle, between the ribs of the drum. Secure the mesh in place with small screws. You can remove the mesh and clean if necessary.
The rib crusher will help to grind fruits and vegetables, which needs to be additionally sharpened. Do not forget to attach a pipe to the drain hole. The structure is ready, it remains to connect the motor.
Since the control panel is retracted as unnecessary, you will have to connect an additional switch.
To properly connect the motor, you need to act on electrical diagram... We have already described this in other articles, so watch the video.
The quality of store juices often gives rise to justified criticism. Society has long believed that the safest drink made from vegetables or fruits is squeezed "with your own hands." A necessary device for this simple procedure is a juicer. There is no shortage of inexpensive juicers for urban kitchens. More often these are small Appliances, who will not always be able to process a bountiful harvest from the site.
More powerful cars are expensive and inaccessible. A way out in this situation can be a do-it-yourself juicer for apples or other fruits.
To figure out how to make a juicer and start implementing your own project, you need to understand how it works. Juicing involves chopping fruits or vegetables and squeezing.
Depending on the design of the device, the processes can be performed sequentially or simultaneously. In centrifugal models, the first is crushing by a centrifuge, then the press comes into play. Augers extract juice during processing.
Regardless of the choice of auger or centrifugal design, to assemble a homemade juicer you will need:
Further design complexity depends on technical capabilities.
The simplest option is manual grinding followed by placement under a screw press. More sophisticated versions require a mechanical chopper drive.
Auger options with simultaneous crushing and squeezing are more costly and take longer to manufacture.
The easiest way to get a juicing device is to take advantage of your grandfather's experience. In ancient times, to grind pre-peeled apples, an ordinary wooden trough and a chopper ( special knife for chopping hard fruits and vegetables).
The pulp prepared in this way, packed in a canvas (gauze), was loaded into a wooden tub under a press. To drain the juice into a specially prepared container, a hole was made at the bottom of the tub. Any heavy object could be used as a press, for example, a pair of boulders.
Whenever possible, a screw press was used, consisting of:
The possibility of using a welded apparatus will allow you to assemble a press from metal. Alternatively, you can use:
This option will not be too time-consuming and expensive. The performance of the device depends on the volume of the tub.
In operation, the method of pressing with a press is more laborious due to the performance of a significant part of the work by hand.
A popular automated option is devices for extracting centrifugal juice from a washing machine. For their manufacture, the following are removed from the donor device:
All dismantled parts must be cleaned of powder residues, rust, scale. All holes in the tank must be welded or closed with rubber plugs. Of all the holes, only one should remain to drain the spin. A useful element of the tank will be a filter mesh, which is mounted above the drain outlet.
A standard centrifuge cannot be used as a grater and requires modification. The standard holes that are used to drain water during spinning will not cope with grinding. There are several ways to solve the problem. Among them:
A drum with a grater is mounted in the tank. For this purpose, fasteners and ball bearings from the washing machine are used. Fastening is performed depending on the characteristics of the donor machine. Assembled structure fits in a vertical case that closes removable lid with latches or wing-type mount. A hopper is inserted from above into the opening of the lid, where vegetables or fruits are placed for chopping.
To prevent the apple bin from falling through to the grater, a limiter should be provided. The body itself is mounted on a rigid or shock-absorbing base. The main thing is that the device does not lose vibration resistance during operation.
The device drive is borrowed from the same washing machine. It can be located outside or inside the case. Its speed must be matched to the required rotational speed of the centrifuge by a system of pulleys of the appropriate diameter.
A more laborious option, from the point of view of manufacturing, is a screw device for juicing. In this case, most of the parts of the unit are made independently:
The assembled structure is mounted on a metal frame stand with a motor fixed in it. The belt drive transfers rotation from the motor to the auger pulley.
The options listed are not detailed description making a homemade juicer. These are general ideas on the basis of which you can develop your project based on the available possibilities.
A homemade juicer with a high performance will be useful for gardeners and gardeners who have to deal with the problem of processing a large amount of fruits or vegetables during the season. For household needs, a factory-made household juicer is quite enough, which will provide its owners with several portions of freshly squeezed juice.
