Washing machine vegetable cutter. Drawing, description

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Washing machine vegetable cutter. Drawing, description

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For several years now, the Kama washing machine has been helping me prepare starch from potatoes at home. It took very little improvement to turn it into a productive vegetable grater. I made a grater disk from a round steel plate d 189 mm and 0,5 mm thick, perforating it with a thick nail To prevent the disk from deforming, I rolled the edge, and stuffed the holes evenly, along the concentric circles applied to the workpiece. I removed the activator from the machine, fixed this disk-grater on it with six M3 bolts with countersunk heads and installed it back. From a thick solid board I cut out a partition, a spacer wedge and a cover for the loading compartment.

The partition is lowered into the tank so that its rectangular groove is located exactly above the center of the grater disk. Perpendicular to it, a spacer wedge is inserted from above - it tightly presses the partition against the tank wall. So two compartments are formed in the machine: a smaller one for loading processed vegetables and a larger one for collecting chopped mass. The semi-circular wooden lid is essential for the safe feeding of vegetables to the rotating disc.

Washing machine vegetable cutter
Converting a washing machine into a vegetable grater (click to enlarge): 1 - activator-grater, 2 - partition, 3 spacer wedge, 4 - lid, 5 - washing machine tank

To prepare starch, potatoes are poured into a small compartment, the machine is turned on, and water is gradually added, and the tubers are kept on the lid. The finished mass is removed from the tank, washed and filtered twice through a fine sieve. The solution is then poured into a clean sludge container. When the starch settles to the bottom, the water is drained carefully. The last stage is drying. Raw starch is laid out in a thin uniform layer on sheets of paper and dried at a temperature not exceeding 40 °. Product yield - up to 1 kg of starch from 10 kg of raw potatoes.

Author: G.Konyaev

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