18L Fruit Press Cider Wine Making with Wooden Basket for Homemade Naturial Juice, Grape, Berry, Apple Presser

Good value for money and quality, easy to use nice designs

Update to the review having now used it. Got about 1.5 gallons from 21 lb of our homegrown white grapes.Overall it's easy to use. It's robust and able to stand a lot of pressure during the pressing.On the down side it doesn't come with enough spacer blocks. We had to make more. The round press plate could do with being a few mm bigger diameter. The grapes crept around the sides of it during pressing. We had to take it apart and rearrange the grapes to ensure all were pressed. This may not be a problem with larger fruit.Interim review on unpacking and assemblyWe haven't used it yet so this review is interim and just about the unpacking and assembly.On first opening the box one is greeted by what appears to be a jumble of wood and metal. This is definitely a home assembly kit rather than a ready to use press.Overall it seems to be well made with good materials. All of the wooden parts are beech wood which is excellent as a food grade material. The steel parts are sturdy and look to be powder coated for durability. The provided screws have Philips heads rather than Pozidrive and seem to be stainless steel.It's a long fiddly job to attach all of the barrel staves to the steel hoops. The screws are quite small. I would recommend using a manual screwdriver rather than powered drill driver. Do be careful to get all the staves the same way up. They have one end slightly chamfered.Now for the negatives:The instructions call for the steel and wood pressure plates to be screwed together. Unlike the staves there are no pre-drilled holes in the wood plate. Not a big problem for me as I have the experience and tools to drill the holes. However, for a good many who buy these presses they will not have the required tools. Having drilled the holes I found that the screws provided are not long enough to go through the steel plate and bite into the wood. Luckily I have a box of random screws in the workshop so had some suitable. Of course not everyone will. Subsequent to screwing the two parts together it occurred to me that those two parts don't really need to be screwed together at all. They will function perfectly fine if just stacked on the central spindle.Next job is to find something suitable to screw the legs of the stand to.

Delivered in good time.It turned out that we had a lot of trouble getting the (50) screws into the pilot holes.Either the pilot holes were undersized or the screw metal too soft, but 10 or 12 different samples would not screw in.Contacted the supplier who offered the option of a complete replacement, but also suggested, to save time, buying alternative screws locally and they would offer a refund.I got them to give me a good technical description of the screws and went (online) shopping.I bought Posidrive (PZ) pan headed 4mm x 16mm zinc coated stainless steel. These worked a treat and assembly was quick and easy.Little bit of a bumpy ride, but we got there happily (and refund received).Very grateful for the timely excellent support from SqueezeMaster.

I bought the 6 lr press. Big enough for small household use, bigger not needed.Apples do need to be crushes before, not only cut in small pieces. I used my old mincer for that. Worked brilliant. Did need to cut extra blocks in order to press the last bit of apples.

A good press, easy to assemble and I would have given it a 5 but, as many have said, not enough blocks to squeeze all the juice from apples. I would recommend but with two observations:6 additional blocks (3 layers) needed.Cannot see a way to purchase more blocks and you cannot contact the supplier.I had to make my own which was annoying.On assembling make sure cage slats are the correct way round (length and outwards). You will need a good screwdriver as pre-drilled holes could do with being deeper and wider.You do not need to screw the unit down - it works perfectly well free standing.Does require a lot of post pressing cleaning - especially the juice bag

Very heavy, looking strong and good. Didn't tried yet, i have to put it together first. Just did...great product next is the apples.

I bought this to create apple juice from the apples from my garden trees.Assembling takes time but is not complicated.You will though need a thick wooden board to screw the juicer into. The first time I used it I realised that I really needs more wooden blocks than are supplied. These are about £10 for 2 to buy (this is an absolutely ridiculous price). The lack of blocks can be partially fixed by placing the blocks on their side or if you are really brave on their ends. I then realised though that the quartering the apples made the fruit pieces too big. After about an hour I had created half a cup. Ridiculously some of the apple “pulp” comes out of the top as one applies more pressure.A month later I tried my second attempt. I have used more fruit and chopped it up into much smaller pieces (size of a penny piece in width). Now I have one cup of apple juice after an hour. I conclude that I will be required to actually liquidise the apples to potentially make this work. If I am going to do that I might as well by an electric juice maker, so the whole thing is pointless.I note that the black paint is flaking off the crank. I have not disassembled it yet but I am virtually certain the black paint flakes will fall into the apple pulp. Making this unusable.In summary: a lot of effort; the device doesn’t come with enough blocks (and spares are ridiculously priced); the paint flakes off; the dimensions of some parts seems inconsistent with the design.My personal view is a long way from being fit for making apple juice. Don’t waste your money if that is what you solely want to do.

This product is well made and sturdy, but there are no assembly screws and not enough wooden blocks. Luckily I had some suitable wood, but here in Scotland it is a 28 mile round trip into town to buy screws! At first I thought it was a mistake, but it actually says on the instructions that they are not included. Why not?