billb wrote:
> >
> > If you poke around the google archive of this group, you'll see
> that
> > some people have used the spin cycle of their washing machine as a
> > home-made centrifuge
>
>
> I generally eschew profanity, but I gotta tell you, that sounds
> ****ed up. Put bananas on spin cycle. fageddabodit.

Well, billb is right, that does sound a little wierd. I used it on the
fluffy gros lees of my berry port, because I was lazy, and didn't use a
mesh bag to hold to soft fruits. To see what I mean, go he
http://home.pacbell.net/toms/1997chard.htm This guy's got the system
down cold.

Me, I just taped 4-2L plastic soda bottles to the walls of the washing
machine, and ran the spin cycle 6 times. Paceing back and forth all
the while, "What if they rupture", "What if they come loose and bounce
around", "what if the brake mixes it up again" -- it worked fine. Lots
of the pulp would compress nicely, and pouring off was easy enough.