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Quote from: hoeklijn on February 26, 2012, 10:56:16 AM
Hi Goudacheese, may I suggest an improvement?
When you use pulleys like in the attached picture of my press, the effect of the weight is doubled.

Or tripled...or quadrupled! 

Here's a discussion of presses & pulleys.

-Boofer-

Great post Boofer. I have seen that diagram here before and I think that it will go a long way in clearing up the use of pulley's on Dutch style presses. I hope that Steff sees this thread.

From that diagram just count the "lines" or segments of rope. There is just one "lead" line indicated by the red arrow that is doing all the pulling. All of the others are working lines that multiply the force from the "lead" line. So if there are 3 lines total you have 1 lead and 2 working lines. That's a 2 to 1 increase in force. If you have a total of 4 lines, you have 1 lead and 3 working lines. That's a 3 to one multiplier. All lines should go back to one central location. If the end of one line is attached towards the middle of your lever (as some press designs show), then you lose a lot of your potential force.

Yes Keith I see it.
I think I have it figured out.
Time will tell.
Hope Sailor doesn't mind me copying his press. I will put a plaque on it giving you credit for the design LOL

Great picture Boofer much easier to see than say!

Sorry it took me a while to answer: Don't care about the weight of the plastic bucket, it's no rocket science 
Normally for 2 1 kg baby gouda's I press for about 12 hours with 5 kg (1kg = 2.2 lbs). I'm helped here by the rind forming qualities of the nets in the Kadova moulds...

I finally ordered a cheese mold "(extra-large height 6in (15cm).,inside diameter 8.25in.(21cm). Can be used with 3-8 gallons (11-30 liters) of milk)" and am in the process of designing a press,
man I love this site, so much info  Looking forward to pressing up a nice cheddar or swiss

Quote from: H-K-J on March 20, 2012, 05:26:23 PM
I finally ordered a cheese mold "(extra-large height 6in (15cm).,inside diameter 8.25in.(21cm). Can be used with 3-8 gallons (11-30 liters) of milk)" and am in the process of designing a press,
man I love this site, so much info  Looking forward to pressing up a nice cheddar or swiss

Using the 4-pulley setup in figure #4 I recently pressed my first Double Gloucester using a 25 lb barbell weight. That delivered ~575lbs to my cheese, or ~13.7psi. Good stuff.

-Boofer-

Holly crap maybe Ill just drive a diesel truck on top LOL

Quote from: H-K-J on March 21, 2012, 01:18:27 AM
Holly crap maybe Ill just drive a diesel truck on top LOL

Yeah, you could do that. But you want to limit it to the light duty models.... 

-Boofer-

Quote from: Boofer on March 21, 2012, 12:07:46 PM

Quote from: H-K-J on March 21, 2012, 01:18:27 AM
Holly crap maybe Ill just drive a diesel truck on top LOL

Yeah, you could do that. But you want to limit it to the light duty models.... 

-Boofer-

AND make sure the cheese is covered well so you don't contaminate it with diesel fumes...

My 96 caddie will probably be just right