Extra, Extra Large Filter Press

[Indiana-Jones]

I was out junking today looking for bits and pieces and I came across this industrial filter press.
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[maple flats]

Indiana, Did you buy it? You will need one that big in just a few years. This addiction keeps gaining momentum and you will grow faster than you realize. 19 taps in 2011, but 10,000 befpre you realize what overtook you. 10,000 can use a filter press that big. (But be careful, it must have been used in food production and not some hazardous material.)
Dave

[Indiana-Jones]

Dave, no I didn't, the salesman was not around today. Ha Ha. I don't know where it was in it's previous life, but I could ask.

[Bucket Head]

It'll take two men and a boy to put the papers on that thing!

I saw a similiar rig, slightly smaller though, at a winery once. It was outside and was'nt being used, but I figured it must have been in use there at one time. The plates on that one were about 1.5-2ft square!

Steve

[Indiana-Jones]

The guy that owns the press is a Maple maker. He has stopped boiling for the last few years. He had two close friends that worked with him, trucking their sap over to his place and boiling on a home made 4X12. His two buddies have pasted and now he just don't see the fun in it.

He has made a living buying and selling stainless. Buying closed factories and scrapping them out. His house is made of stainless, siding, roof, gutters, window frames.
A 16X30 stainless swimming pool. Looks like a pool in a nuclear power plant. I don't know the man real well, I tracked him down this summer looking for used pans. He didn't have a pan that I could buy, but I did purchase a 8ft SS counter with sink, just so I could go back to his house a second time to show my wife.

[maple flats]

That press might be the same size as Bascom's use. They have 2 or 3 huge presses. If it was used for food, should be good.

[lpakiz]

Indiana, I think that thing is a plate-type heat exchanger, not a filter press. They were used in the dairy industry to heat or cool milk, whey, buttermilk, etc. Product was plumbed into and out of two orifaces. Hot water or steam or ice water was plumbed into two other ports. Every-other plate carried their respective liquids, passing them next to each other and "exchanging" their heat. Hey, coming to Indiana this Sunday, Monday & Tuesday....

[Dennis H.]

heck with the big filterpress I want the small vertical tank to the left in the background!!

[Indiana-Jones]

Larry, the heat exchanger idea may be right. I will try to catch the place open so I can ask. I don't plan on or need the thing, I thought that it was interesting.

I plan to be home this weekend, working on wood and rig, in less the one that must be obeyed changes my mind. You have my number, please give me a call when you get your itinerary worked out. I don't have much to look at, but it would be a good thing to meet.